Larouche's 40-Year Record
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the developed and developing world. This is followed LaRouche’s 40-Year Record in September at the United Nations, by a call for “new development banks” by Guyanese Foreign Minister Fred Wills. 1982: LaRouche addresses the exploding interna- Fighting for tional debt crisis with his proposal for Operation Juárez, which outlines a specific Ibero-American plan International for financial reorganization for development (see arti- cle below). Development 1988: Under the title “Development Is the Name for Peace,” the Schiller Insti- From 1970 to this day, physical economist tute, founded by Helga Zepp- Lyndon LaRouche has an unparalleled record LaRouche, holds a conference of proposals for reforming international fi- in New Hampshire on Jan. nancial institutions, and for launching the 30-31, dedicated to elaborat- great development projects that can uniquely ing the need to establish a reverse the decline of the world economy. “just new world economic Leading instances of those initiatives are order.” Lyndon LaRouche ad- listed below. The impact of these ideas, and dresses this conference on the political fight on their behalf, can be how the U.S. Presidency could clearly seen in the current dramatic moves by establish such a new order, the BRICS nations to create a new financial which he later dubbed a “New architecture. Bretton Woods.” 1997: At a Jan. 4 webcast, Financial Reform LaRouche issues a rallying 1975: At a press conference April 24 in cry for a New Bretton Woods, Bonn, Germany, LaRouche presents his plan based on bankruptcy reorgani- for “the immediate establishment of an Inter- zation of the world economy, national Development Bank as an agreement followed by establishment of among the three principal world sectors—the industrialized capitalist sector, the so-called develop- ing sector, and socialist coun- tries.” He specifies that the immediate concentration of the investment thus made pos- sible should be industrial de- velopment and expanded food production worldwide. 1976: The Group of 77 Developing Countries, meet- ing in Colombo, Sri Lanka in August, issues a call for a new world economic order, based on respect for sovereignty, technology transfer to the Third World, and mutually advantageous economic de- velopment proposals between July 25, 2014 EIR Feature 19 President Abraham Lincoln’s superseding authority of a currency created by the Presi- dency of the United States (e.g., ‘Green- backs’), as conducted as a national banking- and-credit-system placed under the super- vision of the Office of the Treasury Secretary of the United States. “(3) The use of a Federal Credit-system is to generate high-pro- ductivity trends in im- provements of employ- ment, with the intention an international credit system to increase the physical-economic produc- for global reindustrialization. tivity and standard of living of the persons In the months that follow, the and households of the United States. .,” and LaRouche movement orga- (4) “Adopt a Fusion-Driver ‘Crash Pro- nizes a global movement of gram.’ ” prominent political leaders and economists demanding Development Projects this reorganization. 1970—United States: “How to Lick a 2008: In the face of the Depression in a Single Day” is the first re- devastating global financial construction program issued by LaRouche collapse, LaRouche, in the for the United States. It emphasizes the need Fall, demands an urgent ap- for investment in high-technology infra- plication of FDR’s Glass- structure development, including fusion Steagall principle to banking power. This program is elaborated through systems throughout the world, LaRouche’s Presidential campaigns, which but starting in the United focuses on developing U.S. scientific capa- States. bilities as part of a world development pro- 2014: On June 8, La- gram. Rouche issues his “Four New 1979—Africa: LaRouche’s Fusion Laws to Save the U.S.A. Now!,” which defines the Energy Foundation releases a book-length program for urgent measures required to be taken by the U.S. Con- the Industrialization of Africa, based on developing gress. These include: transportation infrastructure, as well as nuclear energy “(1) Immediate re-enactment of the Glass-Steagall development. This is followed up in 1981, by La- law instituted by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rouche’s own “Lagos Plan of Action” for Africa. without modification, as to principle of action. (2) A 1979—India: EIR issues a study on “The Industri- return to a system of top-down, and thoroughly defined alization of India,” commissioned by LaRouche, which as National Banking. defines how it can go “From Backwardness to Indus- “The tested, successful model to be authorized is that trial Power in Forty Years.” which was, under the direction of the policies of national 1983—Asia/Pacific: LaRouche issues an EIR Spe- banking which had been successfully installed under cial Report entitled “A Fifty-Year Development Policy 20 Feature EIR July 25, 2014 deal with the food crisis in the East, and advancing to the development of high- technology development corridors be- tween Moscow, Paris, and Vienna—an area which encompasses the most produc- tive industrial centers in Europe. 1990—Southwest Asia: LaRouche re- leases his “Oasis Plan,” as a basis for last- ing peace between Israel and the Arab world, based on programs of nuclear de- salination and industrial development for the entire region. 1990s—Eurasia: With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the La- Rouches expand the concept of the Pro- ductive Triangle to become the Eurasian Land-Bridge, linking all of Eurasia through development corridors. One of the high points of this organizing occurs for the Indian-Pacific Oceans Basin,” which presents in 1996, during a conference sponsored by the Chi- the conceptual basis for large-scale infrastructure proj- nese government, which features plans for a “New ects, including water development in the Indian Sub- Silk Road.” This event is followed by many others continent, the Mekong River Basin, the Kra Canal Proj- dedicated to the Eurasian Land-Bridge over the fol- ect, the Hangzhou-Beijing Canal, and a second Panama lowing years. Canal. These projects represent the “motor for develop- 2007—Russia/U.S.: LaRouche puts a special em- ment,” LaRouche says. phasis on the Bering Strait Tunnel during a May visit to 1988—Ibero-America: The Schiller Institute issues Moscow, where he is a featured guest at the Russian a book-length study on “Ibero-American Integration, Academy of Sciences in celebration of the 80th birth- 100 Million New Jobs by the Year 2000!,” which out- day of Prof. Stanislav Menshikov, a prominent Russian lined the basis for an integrated agro-industrial modern- economist. ization of the continent, including projects on water management, high- speed rail, increasing agri- cultural productivity, nu- clear energy, and other investments in high-tech- nology development. 1989—Europe: Lyndon and Helga La- Rouche put forward the “Productive Triangle” de- velopment plan, in the face of the collapse of East Germany. It builds off LaRouche’s October 1988 proposal for West- ern Europe to provide high-technology aid to July 25, 2014 EIR Feature 21.