Question: I've got a question about history, and the possibility of there being intentionality in history. I've been looking very closely at the history of the Non-Aligned Movement, and specifically the Bandung Conference in 1955, and the significance of that for the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement. I was wondering if you could talk about. Well, I've got a couple of questions concerning this. If you could talk about a few of the figures in the fight that they were in: Lumumba, Sukarnho, and Nasser and others-and you! And also how they were subverted. My specific questions about it are: is there a significance in studying this history, concerning the incredible work that you're doing now in the Third World, with Turkey and other places, and the networks that are developing around Mbeke, Sukarnoputri, and all these people, and Dr. Mahathir. And also, how does this struggle in the Third World and the struggle that was waged in the Non-Aligned Movement back then, go into this idea of an intentionality in history? You know, specifically, every time I look at the School of Athens, that argument that Plato and Aristotle are having in the center of it.

LaRouche: Well, in 1974-75, I was involved in organizing a conference for a just new world economic order, partly with the government of Peru, with a dear friend of mine who was then the foreign minister of Guyana, and others, and the proposal which I drafted, together with these friends and others, was submitted at Sri Lanka, at Colombo, in August of 1975, and was adopted by the Non-Aligned Movement. My friend Fred Wills came back to the United Nations, and reported on this resolution to the UN General Assembly, which turned it down flat! Large amounts of cash must have been arriving with the roses for the visiting delegations from Third World nations and others at the UN headquarters in NY, to the various embassies. Threats would also be delivered, as the alternative. The usual mafia methods which are called "US diplomacy."

So, that died--but it didn't! We had a conference in Bangalore, India this past month, which my wife and I and some friends in India organized. When I made my presentation on this subject, the Indian official--formerly the head of the Non-Aligned Movement for the Congress Party, N [??] Singh--was the person who introduced me, with a speech introducing my address to that conference. And probably as a result of that conference, there was an accelerated effort with India and China, on accelerating their collaboration of the type you've seen with the visit of the prime minister of India to China just this past week. So it lives! The Non-Aligned Movement lives on in the form of what we sometimes call the Strategic Triangle, which I tried to get Bill Clinton to adopt in August-September of 1998. Typical Bill didn't. He was scared. They put a sucker in the basement of the White House, and that was used to get him off the track of any monetary reforms at that time. So, don't let organized crime put a sucker in the White House. That's the lesson.

So, that's us! That's our tradition. I am part of the Non-Aligned Movement. I've been a factor in this thing, and still am, and I have done the most to revive it. They thought they'd killed it. It's now revived.

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