Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche Hermyle, Jr. ( born September 8, 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire) is an American political activist, the who founded the internationally acclaimed LaRouche movement. Since 1976, he applied several times unsuccessfully for the office of President of the United States. He first ran for the Langer's " Labor Party ," he later tried unsuccessfully in the primaries to the nomination for the Democrats.

Positions

LaRouche is a sharp critic of the current global economic system, which he predicts an imminent collapse. As an alternative, he advocated a "new Bretton Woods " system with fixed exchange rates, a protectionist economic policies and a number of technology projects. He holds, among other massive investments for example to extend the New Eurasian Continental Bridge necessary.

Whether LaRouche is politically right or left, can hardly say: While his proposal to build a new Bretton Woods has some parallels to the anti-globalization left, pushes his movement there on rejection, partly due to his enthusiasm for the civil use of nuclear and fusion energy, especially for the type of the pebble bed reactor ( Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, PBMR ), which represents a proliferation risk with the possibility of producing relatively pure uranium -233.

Critics of LaRouche anti-Semitic remarks.

Imprisonment

1988 Lyndon LaRouche for " conspiracy and mail fraud" ( conspiracy and mail fraud ) was sentenced to several years in prison. The judges saw it as proven that LaRouche and six of his supporters had fraudulently using false information on present collateral credit, clear up without the donors about the significant financial difficulties of his organization.

LaRouche himself sees in condemning an attempt to "eliminate" him as a politician. The conviction was the result of a conspiracy under the direction of Henry Kissinger, in addition to the FBI and the Wall Street Journal, the NBC television network, the Reader's Digest magazine and the Anti-Defamation League were involved.

LaRouche movement

LaRouche's theories are almost exclusively represented by organizations that are close to the eponymous " LaRouche movement ". In Germany, these are mainly led by LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp -LaRouche LaRouche and also guided by her Schiller Institute. 1996 described the then Federal Government of the LaRouche movement related European Workers Party in a reply to an inquiry by members of the CDU / CSU and FDP as a political sect. This assessment is also represented by dropouts.

Magazine " Code"

In collaboration with Lyndon LaRouche appeared to November 1995, the monthly magazine " code" of the editor Ekkehard Franke - Gricksch, published in diagnoses -Verlag. The publication used in accordance with Constitutional Protection Report 1992 focuses moderately revisionist, war guilt and Nazi crimes undeniable content. Licensee of the German editions in 1980, the CODE Publishing House in Vaduz. The magazine in 1996 went up in the magazine Memopress.