Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

journalists in The Age and Sydney Moming Herald. The CECwas the subject of a number of hostile profiles on national ABCradio (the government funded network), and TV (primarily KerryPacker’s network and the “ethnic’ outlet, SBS). The CEC wasdenounced on the floor of the Trades Hall Council by the MeatWorkers Union and attacked by a coalition of students, gays,feminists and Jewish groups. Rodney Adier, the mega-wealthyfinancier in charge of FAI Insurance, and a Daddy Warbucks forright-wing pro-free trade “think tank,” the Sydney Institute, issuedlegal threats, and Michael Danby a leading political ally of lsi Leiblerinstituted legal claims for defamation, claiming damagesof up to $250,000.The reason for this attention is the C.E.C’s internationalconnections to the American network headed by LyndonLaRouche.Who is LaRouche?LaRouche literature describes Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., as a“statesman” and “economist.” He was born into Quaker traditions,was with the US army as a noncombatant in WWII seeing servicein the Indian theatre, was a Marxist from about 1949 till the mid1970s. He now heads a publishing organisation which raisesabout $(AUS)40 million per annum mainly through the sale ofpolitical publications such as the weekly magazine ExecutiveIntelligence Review (EIR) and political donations from wealthysupporters and other sources. The American organisationvariously called-the International Caucus of Labor Committees(ICLC) and the Schiller Institute has about 300 full time workers.LaRouche has stood as a candidate in 4 Presidential elections.In 1987 the headquarters of his publishing organisationwasraidedbya400memberjointpolice-militarytaskforce. After aninitial mistrial, and a second trial (relocated in a blatant “forumshopping” exercise), he was found guilty on various conspiracy