Larouche Leads Dialogue on World Crisis: Bonn

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epresentatives from twenty Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Rnations came together in addresses Bonn gathering. Bonn, Germany April 21, to hear leading thinkers from the United States, Germany, Russia, India, August-October 1998 period, and China address, “The Way out where a series of decisions were of the Crisis: Europe, the World taken for hyperinflation and a Financial Crisis, and the ‘New new strategic policy. We must Cold War.’ ” remove the starting-point for Lyndon LaRouche, who is war. We have to reorganize the campaigning for the Democratic world economy. We have to put nomination for U.S. President, the world through bankruptcy stressed the way in which the reorganization, and rebuild a insanity of the world financial viable economy. We have to do elite, based in Britain, has created what was done at the end of the current crisis. We are now World War II, on a global heading for world war, but one scale. EIRNS/Christopher Lewis unlike World Wars I and II. The policy Left: Prof. Wilhelm since 1971, the float- Hankel, former chief ing-exchange-rate economist, Kreditan- system, has de- stalt für Wiederauf- stroyed the ability bau, Germany. Right: of the world to fight Prof. S. Menshikov, wars as in the past. Russian Academy of Super-weapons Sciences, Moscow. exist, but there is no Bottom: Prof. Quian way to win wars in Jing, Chinese Academy the classical sense. for Social Sciences, Either a war is Beijing. EIRNS/Christopher Lewis fought according to EIRNS/Christopher Lewis St. Augustine’s principle of a just war, or whole. Since the we will see a return to the New Dark 1960’s, recent de- Distinguished Age of the mid-Fourteenth century, or cades have seen a Panelists the Thirty Years War of 1618-48, where degeneration of LaRouche was fol- nobody can win, and nobody knows how that concept of law. lowed by a very dis- to stop the war. This is a threat to tinguished panel of the existence of speakers. Root Causes of War Russia, and, later, to • The first was We’re in a period of conflict, as China. Prof. Wilhelm Han- described by Prof. Friedrich van der To prevent this, kel, of the Univer- Heydte in his 1972 book, Modern Irregu- we have to get the sity of Frankfurt, lar Warfare, and his earlier 1952 book on President of the Germany, former the origins of the nation-state. The Fif- United States to chief economist of teenth century saw a fundamental revo- look at things in a EIRNS the Kreditanstalt lution relative to all preceding periods, new way. Instead of looking where the für Wiederaufbau (the credit bank for where the imperial-law concept of Pla- war will be next, the question is where reconstruction which rebuilt Germany to’s characters Thrasymachus and Glau- to go to define the end of war. Find a after World War II), and former presi- con was dealt a giant blow by the emer- solution to bring the end of war. dent of the Hessische Landesbank. Pro- gence of the nation-state, accountable To do this, you must get at the roots fessor Hankel is also one of four for the general welfare of the people as a of what is causing war. Go back to the German professors to bring suit in the

© 1999 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Woods System German courts against the establish- ment of the supranational “Euro” cur- rency. Professor Hankel outlined his own plans for replacing the bankrupt world financial system. • Professor S. Menshikov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, laid heavy emphasis on the impact which NATO’s war against Yugoslavia has had on Russia, and its impact in burying the system of interna- EIRNS/Stuart Lewis Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum discusses U.S. cooperation with China, Russia, and India. tional law. Seated: Michael Liebig and moderator Debra Freeman. • The afternoon panel was keynoted by Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute. She was followed by Prof. D. Kaushik, an historian from U.S. Must Join ‘Survivors’ Club’ the Jawaharlal Nehru University of New Delhi, India, and then Prof. Qiang n EIR-Schiller Institute seminar in ton was absolutely correct in warning Jing, from the Chinese Academy for AWashington, D.C. on March 24, recently that the anti-China hysteria in Social Sciences in Beijing. titled, “Why President Clinton Must the U.S. can provoke a mirror-image • In his remarks, Prof. Qian said Ally the U.S.A. with the Survivors’ reaction there. that the Asia financial crisis of 1997 did Club,” convened at approximately the It’s time, said Tennenbaum, for not surprise China, because they were same time that U.S. and NATO aircraft America to boot out the Gang of Four, familiar with bubble economies within began bombing Yugoslavia. The event and join the Survivors’ Club. their own nation. And “secondly, we was attended by some 100 people, repre- kept in contact with the Schiller Insti- senting about a dozen nations. It’s Not Too Late! tute, from 1994 until today. Since 1994, Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum pointed Michael Liebig, Intelligence Director for Please turn to page 74 to a crucial issue at the center of this cri- EIR in Europe, reminded his audience sis: U.S. policy toward China, and that the first world financial crisis cul- toward the emerging cooperation minated in World War II; now, the sec- among Russia, China, India, and other ond world financial crisis has placed us nations which are forming what in a strategic crisis and war. LaRouche calls the “Survivors’ Club,” in Liebig outlined an historical “case order to ensure continued existence and study”—the two months leading up to development of their people. This has Hitler’s coup d’etat—to demonstrate been accompanied by a drumbeat in the that there was no inevitability to Hitler’s U.S. media aimed at destroying the cog- seizure of power in 1933. Quite the nitive faculties of Americans. There has opposite: had key individuals, especially been no respite for over a year now, Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, then Chan- beginning with the Lewinsky affair, cellor, acted in time, they could have through the impeachment, and now the prevented Hitler’s seizure of power. McCarthyite China scare. Hitler and the Nazis were, for all intents In fact, the Survivors’ Club nations and purposes, finished. The Nazi Par- are not enemies of the United States; on ty’s support had collapsed. It was only a the contrary, they fervently want good determined and secret operation, run by EIRNS/Maria Schmitz relations with this country. But the the Anglo-American “Morgan com- Faris Nanic, Secretary General of Bosnia’s “Gang of Four” on the Principals Com- plex,” in cahoots with their inside man, Party of Democratic Action in Croatia, and mittee (Gore, Cohen, Shelton, and the banker Hjalmar Schacht, and com- Initiating Signer of the “Call for Peace Albright) want to ram through a new bined with a failure of Hitler’s opposi- Through Development for the Balkans,” “globalized” NATO doctrine to target tion to seize the opportunity, that led to comments from the floor. so-called “rogue states.” President Clin- the horrors which followed.

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Prometheus Bound in Australia Bonn Conference Continued from page 71 he Citizens Electoral Lyndon LaRouche’s ideas began to be TCouncil (C.E.C.) of introduced and spread in China. Our Australia, a federal political press gave growing attention to him and party organized by the Aus- the Schiller Institute, and even our very tralian co-thinkers of Lyn- high level officials of the central govern- don LaRouche, sponsored ment knew his main ideas and under- two performances of Aes- stood them.” chylus’s epic play, Pro- Professor Qian also proposed the for- metheus Bound, as the cen- mation of a special foundation, designat- terpiece of its state confer- ed “The New Triangle Foundation,” to ences, “Classical Tragedy: design programs for fostering the The Pathway to National emerging strategic triangle of China, Sovereignty,” in Victoria India, and Russia. and New South Wales in At the conclusion of the panel, Lyn- December 1998. don LaRouche noted that such events, The C.E.C. was inspired with their discussions of seemingly far- to attempt this, its first-ever flung ideas of the future, often plant the performance of a full- seeds for critical breakthroughs in poli- length drama, by Lyndon tics, and that he smelled that such seeds and Helga LaRouche’s fre- had been planted during this day. quent admonitions, that a EIRNS political revolution were Prometheus is made captive and tortured, in Aeschylus’s not possible, without the anti-oligarchical drama “Prometheus Bound.” inspiration of an accompa- Scandinavian nying cultural revolution. C.E.C. often convinced that the oligarchy is Seminars National Secretary Craig Isherwood “too powerful, you’ll never win.’ And, told Fidelio: “The two performances though we did not know it when we uring the week after the were extremely well received. We also started, we discovered that the image of DBonn conference, seminars did a high-quality video, so that, here in Prometheus was frequently used by the were held in Copenhagen, Den- the heartland of the British Empire, founders of the Australian Labor Party mark and Stockholm, Sweden on Aeschylus’s immortal work could serve in the 1890’s, who aspired to establish a the topic “Russia-China-India: to inspire a broader population, which is republic here, based on the American Key to the Eurasian Economy in model.” the 21st Century.” In introducing the drama, Noelene Both seminars, which were Isherwood challenged people to think addressed by Dr. Jonathan Ten- about the kind of changes in belief nenbaum, director of the German required to overthrow an oligarchy, as Fusion Energy Foundation, and a Prometheus did. frequent participant in Schiller After the performance there was Institute delegations to China, considerable discussion, including a drew considerable diplomatic comment from an English literature lec- attention. turer, who insisted that all Greek drama • In Copenhagen, 17 repre- was about how mankind was at the sentatives from 12 different mercy of Fate, and that this play was no embassies, including three different. At that point, another ambassadors, plus people from attendee stood up and objected, saying four other countries attended, that the whole point of the play was including high-level diplomats exactly the opposite—that Prometheus from Russia, China, and India. demonstrated that it is possible to act • In Stockholm, 20 diplomats EIRNS with reason and courage, in a noble way from 16 embassies participated, Io is tormented by Zeus—but, as Prome- to change one’s circumstances—that one again including China, as well as theus foresees, her descendant Hercules will doesn’t have to be enslaved and a victim many smaller nations. triumph over the Olympian gods. of so-called greater powers.