Over 150 people participated in asymposium entitled “For a New

Bretton Woods System!” in Bonn, Ger-many on Nov. 5. Speakers and guests,many from the international diplomaticcorps, came from nations across theEurasian continent, as well as from asignificant number of African countries.

In his remarks, Lyndon H. La-Rouche, Jr., proved, by drawing on thescientific tradition of Kepler, Leibniz,Gauss, and Riemann, that the currentcrisis is not “cyclical,” but systemic innature. “It is not like a planetary orbit,”he said, “but like a comet headingdirectly into the sun.” Thus, there is noway precedents can be used to findanswers to the breakdown.

The causes of the crisis, he explained,are “not economic, but ideological andpolitical.” He traced the unfolding of theprocess to the 1960’s cultural paradigmshift—away from a commitment totechnological progress, to the idea of apost-industrial society—and to the con-

comitant monetary and financial policyshift, which led to a decoupling offinance from reality.

Just how devastating the effects of

this policy shift have been, was detailedin several contributions, outlining thestate of different national economies:

• Russia: A paper by Dr. Sergei

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the mind,” which is the combinedTavistock/Frankfurt School/Churchof England apparatus.

Next, Dennis Small and Lindade Hoyos, who head EIR’s Ibero-America and Africa desks, respec-tively, covered four areas of Britishoperations: the takeover of banking,the takeover of raw-materials wealth,the move to destroy the nation-state, andthe fostering of murderous, irrationalist

ideologies. Both continents were shownto be being besieged on all fronts, by thesame forces.

Finally, EIR history editor AntonChaitkin reviewed the penetration by abunch of insane British cults into the

United States, including into theU.S. military. What was evidentin the presentation, was that theU.S. is mortally threatened by anetwork headed by Jim Ammer-man, the head of a chaplaincy inthe U.S. military, the F.B.I., andthe prisons, which is preachingoutright insurrection against theAmerican Constitution and thegovernment in Washington.

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Speakers from theconference floor. Left: Josef Miklosko,former vice premier ofpost-Communist Czecho-Slovakia. Right: HermanLaurel, chairman of theKATAPAT organization,Philippines.

Anton Chaitkin:British-spawned cultpenetration of the U.S.military.

Linda de Hoyos:British operations todestroy Africa, grab

mineral wealth.

Symposium panelists and audience hear report from France’s Jean Royer.

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Glazyev, head of the Information andAnalytics Department of the Councilof Federation Staff in Moscow and aformer Minister of the Russian Federa-tion, was read to the symposium,which presented the disastrous condi-tion of the Russian economy and popu-lation. Through the “shock therapy”polices imposed by the InternationalMonetary Fund (I.M.F.) since the endof the Soviet era, the costs of rent andheating for citizens have doubled;industry and the energy sector havebeen handed over toforeign interests; theexternal debt servicehas skyrocketed; andliving standards haveplummeted.

• Armenia andUkraine: A similarpicture emerged fromthe report given byHrant Khachatrian,of the Union of Con-stitutional RightsParty in Armenia, aformer Member of Parliament,who chronicled the process bywhich Armenia has become a“hostage to the I.M.F.” And,according to the report submit-ted by Natalya Vitrenko, amember of the Ukrainian Par-liament and co-initiator of the“Urgent Appeal to PresidentClinton To Convene a NewBretton Woods Conference,”Ukraine is no less a victim of the“reforms.”

• India: In the words of K.R.Ganesh, a former Union Minister ofFinance and a senior political figure inIndia, who sent a paper to be read at thesymposium, the “free market” liberalpolicies which have also been thrustupon the developing sector, have “madethe [old] Bretton Woods system a threatto all nations, and the I.M.F. the mostdreaded words among the poor.”

• Germany: Even more dramaticwere the dimensions of the crisis asexperienced in Germany. Helga ZeppLaRouche drew on studies of the physi-cal state of the German economy to doc-ument the de-industrialization process,which has drastically reduced the pro-

ductive capacities inindustrial plant and,most important,qualified laborpower.

• France andItaly: French parlia-mentarian Jean Ro-yer, who has heldministerial posts innational government,addressed compara-ble problems in

France; and fur-ther presenta-tions echoed thepoint for Italy.

What It Is To Be Human

What such case studies brought home, isthe point that not only are such policiesfailures, but they express the ultimate inimmorality. Zepp LaRouche, referring tothe abject poverty she had recently seenduring a trip to India, drove the pointhome, that to be indifferent to such suf-fering, is not human. To be human, shesaid, is to “have a noble desire to be a partof the solution” to these problems affect-ing most of humanity.

The solution, as Lyndon LaRoucheput it, is “to define a new frontier of eco-nomic development.” Given that thecenter of world population is in Asia,Southeast Asia, and India, the center of

economic developmentfor world recovery mustbe focussed there.

What this means,said all the speakers indifferent ways, is areturn to the methods ofnational economy. Itmeans shifting back toinvestment in the truesource of social wealth:human beings. Dr.Oskar Weggel, of the

Hamburg Insti-tute on AsianStudies, present-ed the mannerin which thisapproach is re-flected in theAsian economicmodels, whichare based onConfucian phi-losophy.

Jean Royer in-troduced a com-plementary ap-proach, proposingthat capital bematched withlabor to producereal wealth, asopposed to chas-ing after mone-

tary profits through speculation. Ital-ian parliamentarian Publio Fiorirecalled this approach as the traditionof Enrico Mattei, who built Italy’senergy sector.

In this context, LaRouche stressedthe extreme importance of the summitbetween U.S. President Clinton andChinese President Jiang Zemin, who hasdemonstrated the quality of leadershipof a De Gaulle or an Adenauer. Profes-sor Qian Jing, a member of the ChineseAcademy for Social Sciences and adviserto Chinese enterprises, from Beijing,told the conference that, at that summit,“international financial problems” hadbeen on the agenda. As Prof. Qian Jingrelated in his speech, the influence ofLaRouche’s ideas has been significant inChina. In closing, Qian Jing expressedhis confidence that the “era of the Land-Bridge economy” has arrived.

Reports and papers were presented byrepresentatives from throughout Eurasia.Top: Russia’s Dr. Sergei Glazyev (in aWashington, D.C. appearance). Above:Prof. Qian Jiang, China (left), and HrantKhachatrian, Armenia (right). Left:France’s Jean Royer.

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