Asharq Al-Awsat, the Arabic daily with the largest circulation in the world and the most influential daily inside Saudi Arabia published an article today by Berlin-based writer Iqbal Al-Qazwini, who interviewed Lyndon LaRouche at the December 2023 EIR Berlin seminar (click here to read LaRouche's keynote to that seminar). This article adds to the deep debate in the Arab world and in particular Saudi Arabia on the current U.S. policy and the role of LaRouche. It is also a major slap on the face of the neo-con allies in the Arab world who slandered LaRouche in the same paper one month ago (see media grid for details).
The article refers to LaRouche's presentation in the Berlin Seminar and statements made in the interview with Al-Qazwini. The article goes through LaRouche's role as a thinker and political leader; the Eurasian Landbridge and New Bretton Woods System, and the Oasis Plan as "a comprehensive development strategy" to "save the human race"; the American Intellectual Tradition as a basis for U.S. foreign and development policy; saving the American people from dictatorship; the gradual removal of the dictatorship of "U.S.-created Saddam" through lifting the sanctions and allowing the Iraqi children to live; and LaRouche's view of the "Palestinian cause". At the end of the article, Al-Qazwini says she asked LaRouche about those who call him a "Nazi millionaire". "The enthusiasm and seriousness with which LaRouche (the man who dreams to change the world) speaks turned into a sarcastic laughter, when I asked him about what is being said about him as ‘Nazi millionaire'. He reiterated that he knows very well the source of these statements. It is a group of right-wing Zionist organizations and racist Likud-allied right-wing Jewish groups. The reason behind that is his opposition to their policies. He stresses that he paid the price for his commitment to his ideas and the moral principles and values he believes in. That price was five years in prison, from 1989 to 1994 on false charges [visit the page on this site dedicated to the "LaRouche Case" for details of these charges]. He considers that a badge of honor."
Translation excerpt: The title and first paragraph of the article read as follows:
Major Global Crises Require a Gigantic Project to Overcome Them; LaRouche, the American thinker and politician dreams of changing the world,
and runs for the Presidency in his country from a different perspective.
"In spite of the controversy aroused around the personality of the American Lyndon LaRouche, the candidate for the 2023 presidential elections, no one can deny that this politician has an extraordinary and balanced vision of the method he has been calling for since the 1970s. He is the founder of an international political movement with many supporters in the United States and around the world, especially among young students.
"LaRouche, in contrast to many other politicians, does not talk about a temporary program for attracting voters, but presents with conviction and enthusiasm a system of strategic, economic and cultural system of ideas. If these ideas were to be implemented, they would change the course of current history."
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