- He predicted the 1971 collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement
that fixed global currency rates and gave birth to the International Monetary
Fund.
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- And he predicted the demise of the Soviet Union and the
reunification of Germany 20 years later.
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- Now, Lyndon LaRouche, the six-time U.S. presidential
candidate and author of dozens of political and economic tracts, is back
in Moscow with a new prophecy " Russia is the only hope for global
civilization.
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- The 78-year-old American, often called a political extremist
for his incessant criticism of the U.S. political system, arrived in Moscow
this week to share his vision "on fostering the Russian economy in
a disintegrating global financial system," at an open hearing in the
State Duma scheduled for Friday.
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- LaRouche is the guest of Sergei Glazyev, the architect
of the Communist Party's economic manifesto for the 1999 parliamentary
elections. With Glazyev at his side in the Central House of Journalists
on Thursday, LaRouche repeated his theories about the inevitable disintegration
of the global economic system and the prominent role that Russia is destined
to play in the coming decades.
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- "For the next 25 years, the potential for growth
will lie in Eurasia," LaRouche told a packed audience, which included
journalists from publications ranging from the reputable Izvestia to the
radical communist Zavtra newspapers.
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- "Russia is the only Eurasian nation that exists
between the globally extended European civilization and Eastern and Southeast
Asia," LaRouche said. In such a system, he said, there is no place
for the United States.
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- "We have a disastrous new president, although some
positive developments have taken place " Democrats have taken over
the Senate and a significant number of Republicans are in revolt."
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- LaRouche, who plans to run for president again in 2004,
earned his reputation as a forward, albeit unusual, thinker by predicting
the demise of the Bretton Woods monetary system that pegged the U.S. dollar
to gold.
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- In 1974 and 1975 he was one of the advocates for a new
international monetary system. LaRouche's views were reflected in appeals
for a just economic order made at the Sri Lanka summit of the Non-Aligned
Movement in 1976.
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- Later, he was engaged in private exploratory talks with
the Soviets, launching a plan to set up a ballistic missile defense system
that envisioned U.S. and Soviet cooperation to foster a science-driven
recovery of the world's economy.
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- In 1988 he was jailed for fraud in what he calls a political
attack.
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- As for Russia, however, he says the political leadership
is doing a great job putting the nation back on its feet.
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- "Putin has emerged as one of the leading world figures
. Putin continues what [Yevgeny] Primakov started as prime minister "
building a Russia-China-India triangle," LaRouche said.
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- As for Russia's problems, from poor corporate governance
to corruption, they are not of its own making.
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- "If you talk about corruption, let me tell you how
George W. Bush became president," LaRouche said. "He became president
with the support of major power companies. Russia imported corruption."
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- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/06/29/003.html
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