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Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006
Born	Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (1922-09-08) September 8, 1922 (age 102) Rochester, New Hampshire, United States
Other names	Lyn Marcus
Occupation	Activist
Political party	U.S. Labor Party, Democratic
Spouse(s)	Janice Neuberger (1954–1963) Helga Zepp (1977–present)
Children	Daniel, born 1956
Parent(s)	Jessie Lenore Weir (1893–1978) Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Sr. (1896–1983)

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922) is an American self-styled economist, political activist, and the founder of several political organizations, known collectively as the LaRouche movement. He has been a perennial candidate for President of the United States, having run in eight elections since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. He has written extensively on economic, scientific, and political topics as well as on history, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

LaRouche was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in 1988 for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax code violations, but continued his political activities from behind bars until his release in 1994 on parole. His appelate attorney, Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. Attorney General, argued that the case represented an unprecedented abuse of power by the U.S. government in an effort to destroy the LaRouche organizations. LaRouche and his defenders believe the prosecution was a politically motivated conspiracy involving government officials, numerous others, and a mass-media brainwashing campaign.

LaRouche is founder and contributing editor of the Executive Intelligence Review News Service, part of the LaRouche movement. In 1984, LaRouche's research staff was described by Norman Bailey, a former senior staffer of the National Security Council, as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world".

There are sharply contrasting opinions on LaRouche. Supporters have described him as the greatest living economist, and a political leader in the tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King. Critics have called him an extremist, a conspiracy theorist, a political cult leader, a fascist, and/or an antisemite. The Heritage Foundation has said that he "leads what may well be one of the strangest political groups in American history".

Life

1922–1946: Early life

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History	Lyndon LaRouche Views of Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon LaRouche U.S. presidential campaigns California Proposition 64 (1986) LaRouche criminal trials
Active organizations	Australian Citizens Party Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität European Workers Party Executive Intelligence Review LaRouche movement National Caucus of Labor Committees Schiller Institute Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement
Defunct organizations	Curtin Labor Alliance Fusion Energy Foundation North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada U.S. Labor Party
Members	Robert Beltran Adrian Bennett James Bevel Michael Billington Amelia Boynton Robinson Norbert Brainin Anton Chaitkin Jacques Cheminade Billy Davis Sergey Glazyev Paul Goldstein Janice Hart Hulan Jack Kenneth Kronberg Stanislav Menshikov Theo Mitchell Robert James Moon Kesha Rogers Nataliya Vitrenko William Warfield Frederick Wills Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Members who separated from the movement	Nicholas F. Benton Robert Dreyfuss F. William Engdahl David P. Goldman Laurent Murawiec Webster Tarpley
Critics	Chip Berlet Daniel Patrick Moynihan John Rees
Related persons	Jeremiah Duggan Daniel Estulin Erik R. Fleming Roy Frankhouser Victor Gunnarsson Zbigniew Jaworowski Gordon M. Johnson Karen Kwiatkowski Eric Lerner Fred Newman Friedwardt Winterberg J. L. Chestnut
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LaRouche is the son of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr. (June 1, 1896–December 1983) and Jessie Lenore Weir (November 12, 1893–August 1978) The elder LaRouche was the son of a French Canadian immigrant from Quebec, and his wife was a descendant of Elder Brewster from the Mayflower and other prominent Yankee families. Lyndon LaRouche Jr. was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the eldest of three children. He attended the School Street elementary school until 1936, when the family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, after his father resigned from his job as a shoe salesman at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Rochester to set up his own business.

I survived socially by making chiefly Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant my principal peers, looking at myself, my thoughts, my commitments to practice in terms of a kind of collectivity of them constructed in my own mind.

In a 1974 interview, LaRouche described his childhood as that of "an egregious child, I wouldn't say an ugly duckling but a nasty duckling." According to his 1979 autobiography, The Power of Reason, he began to read at "about age five" and was called "Big Head" by the other children at school. He was told by his parents, both of them Quakers (his father had converted from Roman Catholicism to marry his mother), that under no circumstances could he fight with other children even in self-defense. This advice led to "years of hell" for him from bullies at school. As a result, he spent much of his time alone, taking long walks through the woods and identifying in his mind with great philosophers: "I survived socially by making chiefly Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant my principal peers, looking at myself, my thoughts, my commitments to practice in terms of a kind of collectivity of them constructed in my own mind." In contrast, he joked, the childhood peers from whom he had felt so alienated had been "unwitting followers of David Hume."

LaRouche elaborated on his early intellectual development in a second autobiography (1988) in which he reports that, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, he read philosophy extensively, embracing the ideas of Leibniz and rejecting those of Hume, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Rousseau, and Kant. He graduated from Lynn English High School in 1940.

1941: Expulsion from the Quakers

By 1940, the Lynn Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quaker) was discussing censuring LaRouche for spreading libelous material and gossip about other members, and in 1941, the Lynn Meeting agreed to expel him, removing him from the group: "We believe Lyndon H. LaRouche is guilty of stirring up discord in this meeting; that he is responsible for circulating material injurious to the reputation of valued Christian workers; and believe that his conduct brings the Christian religion into public disrepute. We recommend the appointment of a committee to deal with him and to endeavor to reclaim him in a spirit of Christian love." His family all resigned in sympathy, asking to be removed from the membership of the meeting in October 1941.

LaRouche writes of this conflict in his autobiography, characterizing it as a quarrel with the American Friends Service Committee stemming from several issues: the disappearance of a trust fund, the Austin-Cross fund, which had been set up by friends and relatives of LaRouche to meet the financial needs of the Silsbee Street Meeting House; resistance by LaRouche's father and others to an attempt to recruit them to the support of Soviet communism; and theological disagreements.

His parents later formed and led their own independent congregation in Boston, the Village Street Monthly Meeting, which met from 1964 to 1979, and in which LaRouche was an active member. According to New England Quaker documents, "This was ostensibly as a Quaker meeting, though its relations with New England Yearly Meeting seem to have been decidedly unfriendly. They were never listed in the Yearly Meeting minutes, as most independent meetings were. Lyndon LaRouche, seems to have been a key member."

1942: University and the army

LaRouche enrolled at Northeastern University, but left in 1942 after receiving poor grades. As a Quaker, he was at first a conscientious objector (CO) during World War II, joining a Civilian Public Service camp where Dennis King writes that he "promptly joined a small faction at odds with the administrators," but in 1944 he joined the Army as a non-combatant, serving in India and Burma with medical units and ending the war as an ordnance clerk. LaRouche describes his decision to serve as one of the most important in his life. While in India, he developed an interest in and sympathy for the Indian Independence movement. He reports in his autobiography that many GIs feared that they would be asked to support British forces in actions against Indian independence forces, a prospect that he says "was revolting to most of us."

While still in the CO camp, LaRouche had begun discussing Marxism with fellow camp inmates and soon became a Marxist. While traveling home from India on the troopship SS General Bradley in 1946, he met Don Merrill, a fellow soldier, who was also from Lynn. Merrill won LaRouche over to Trotskyism on the journey home. Back in the U.S., LaRouche attempted to resume his education at Northeastern, intending to major in physics, but left again because of what he called academic "philistinism."

1948–1967: LaRouche and Trotskyism

In 1948, LaRouche returned to Lynn after dropping out of college and began attending meetings of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)'s Lynn branch. He joined the party the next year, adopting the pseudonym Lyn Marcus for his political work. According to LaRouche's autobiography, he "never encountered a member of the SWP who understood anything of Marx's economics or method." By his account, he joined the SWP after receiving assurances from SWP vice-presidential candidate Grace Carlson that the SWP was a "movement open to exploring new ideas of the type I identified."

LaRouche obtained work as a management consultant in New York City, advising companies on how to use computers to maximise efficiency and speed up production. In 1954, he married fellow SWP member Janice Neuberger. Their son, Daniel, was born in 1956. By 1961, the LaRouches were living in a large apartment on Central Park West. His activity in the internal life of the SWP was minimal due to his preoccupation with his career. In 1964, while still in the SWP, he became associated with a faction called the Revolutionary Tendency, which had been expelled from the SWP and was under the influence of the British Trotskyist leader Gerry Healy, leader of the British Socialist Labour League. For six months, he worked closely with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote:

LaRouche had a gargantuan ego. Convinced he was a genius, he combined his strong conviction in his own abilities with an arrogance expressed in the cadences of upper-class New England. He assumed that the comment in the Communist Manifesto that "a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class..." was written specifically for him. And he believed that the working class were lucky to obtain his services. LaRouche possessed a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth. It was contradictory. His explanations were a bit too pat, and his mind worked so quickly that I always suspected his bravado covered over superficiality. He had an answer for everything. Sessions with him reminded me of a parlor game: present a problem, no matter how petty, and without so much as blinking his eye, LaRouche would dream up the solution.

He remained in the SWP until his expulsion in 1965. He maintains that he was soon disillusioned with Marxism, dropped out of the SWP in the mid-1950s, and resumed his activism only at the prompting of the FBI citing national security concerns. In an interview on the Pacifica Radio network, LaRouche said that he returned to the SWP because he believed that only the Left was likely to combat what he called the "utopian" danger coming from the Right, typified by the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. His ex-wife and other SWP members from that time dispute this. During these years, LaRouche developed an interest in economics, cybernetics, psychoanalysis, business management, and other subjects. He and his wife separated in 1963 and were subsequently divorced.

In 1965, LaRouche left Wohlforth's group and joined the Spartacist League, which had split from Wohlforth. He left after a few months and wrote a letter to the SWP declaring that all factions and sections of the Trotskyist Fourth International were dead and announcing that he and his new partner, Carol Larrabee (also known as Carol Schnitzer), were going to build the Fifth International. In 1966, the couple joined the Committee for Independent Political Action (CIPA), a New Left/Old Left coalition that was running independent anti-war candidates in New York City elections, and formed a branch in Manhattan's West Village.

1967–1969: Formation of the Labor Committees

He began teaching classes at New York City's Free School on dialectical materialism and attracted around him a group of undergraduates and graduate students from Columbia University and the City College of New York, several of whom were involved with the Maoist Progressive Labor Party (PLP), itself very prominent in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the 1988 version of his autobiography, LaRouche writes that he was not really a Marxist when he gave his lectures at the Free School but that he used his familiarity with Marxism to win students away from the New Left counterculture. This assertion is contradicted by the autobiographical material in a 1974 work where he depicts himself as having been a staunch Marxist revolutionary since 1945. However, what LaRouche began to write and teach in the late 1960s was somewhat different from orthodox Marxism, supplementing the doctrine of class struggle with a strong emphasis on the dangers of a supposedly parasitical finance capital as opposed to industrial capital. He would continue with this latter emphasis in the following decade while abandoning, for the most part, the use of Marxist jargon.

LaRouche's followers were heavily involved in the 1968 student strike and occupation of Columbia University, and attempted to win control of the university's SDS and PLP branches by putting forward a political program linking student struggles with those of Harlem residents, transit workers, and the tenant movement. LaRouche and his associates issued statements supporting the New York City strike by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) that fall and criticized advocates of community control of the public schools. According to LaRouche's autobiography, his main opponents on this issue were the New Left groupings, which LaRouche claims were being directed from behind the scenes by McGeorge Bundy and the Ford Foundation. LaRouche also says of this conflict that, on the part of those who were attacking the largely Jewish teachers' union, "there were ugly anti-Semitic noises from various groups..."

LaRouche created his own 'tendency' or faction within Columbia SDS once his following had grown large enough. It competed with both the 'action faction,' which soon became the Weather Underground, and the 'praxis axis', which saw students as the vanguard of the revolution. LaRouche organized his faction as the "SDS Labor Committee", which would develop strong influence within SDS chapters in Philadelphia. He criticized the SDS and the New Left in general, for allowing itself to be influenced by the counterculture, which he abhorred, and for not emphasizing work among trade unionists and tenants. Wohlforth attended one of LaRouche's meetings in New York during this period and writes:

Twenty to 30 students would gather in a large apartment and sit on the floor surrounding LaRouche, who now sported a very shaggy beard. The meeting would sometimes go on as long as seven hours. It was difficult to tell where discussions of tactics left off and educational presentation began. Encouraging the students, LaRouche gave them esoteric assignments, such as searching through the writings of Georges Sorel to discover Rudd's anarchistic origins, or studying Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital. Since SDS was strong on spirit and action but rather bereft of theory, the students appeared to thoroughly enjoy this work.

After its expulsion from SDS in 1969 for supporting the New York City teachers' strike, the SDS Labor Committee became the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), while continuing to function in some SDS chapters outside New York. Despite its name, it had no significant connection with the labor movement and viewed intellectuals as the revolutionary vanguard. According to Dennis King, NCLC's internal life became highly regimented over the next few years. Members gave up their jobs and private lives and became entirely devoted to the group and its leader. The movement developed an internal discipline technique, "ego stripping", which was intended to reinforce conformity and loyalty to LaRouche.

1970s

On December 2, 1971, LaRouche engaged in a spirited debate with leading Keynesian economist Abba Lerner at Queens College, in New York City. The debate pertained to arguments put forward in a leaflet by LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees, specifically on the questions of the wage and price controls and austerity policies being put into place at that time by the Nixon administration, and by Brazil's military regime. Lerner offered a qualified defense of those policies against LaRouche's claim that they represented a revival of the ideas of Hjalmar Schacht. According to the only published accounts, those of the LaRouche organization, Lerner said, "But if Germany had accepted Schacht's policies, Hitler would not have been necessary." LaRouche supporters claim that Lerner's friend, the late philosopher Sidney Hook, attended the debate and stated, "LaRouche won the debate", but "will lose much more as a result of that." LaRouche interpreted Hook's remark to mean that the "establishment" in economics departments in academia would unite against him and no longer debate him, for fear of another upset.

In 1971, LaRouche organized the New Solidarity International Press Service as a wire service for his publications. He founded the weekly Executive Intelligence Review and co-founded the Fusion Energy Foundation.

LaRouche founded the U.S. Labor Party in 1972 as the political arm of the NCLC. Described in the press as a "self-professed Communist organization", LaRouche said that both the major parties had abandoned the American System economic policies that the LaRouche organization had embraced.

"Operation Mop-Up"

In 1973, according to press accounts, the NCLC adopted violent and disruptive tactics under LaRouche's direction. According to the press reports, NCLC members physically attacked meetings of the Communist Party and later of the SWP, and other groups who were classed by LaRouche as "left-protofascists." According to the New York Times, they also attacked CP members on the street and used nunchaku. LaRouche called these attacks "Operation Mop-up."

The NCLC argued that they were acting merely in self-defense, but according to Dennis King, their rhetoric suggested otherwise. "From here on in", LaRouche proclaimed at a mass meeting of his East Coast followers, "the CP cannot hold a meeting on the East Coast...We'll mop them up in two months." His newspaper echoed this call in an editorial:

We must dispose of this stinking corpse to ensure that it cannot act as a host for maggots and other parasites...Our job is to pulverize the Communist Party.

According to LaRouche's autobiography, violent altercations between his organization and New Left organizations actually began in 1969, preceding the period referred to as "Mop up." He writes:

It was Rudd's Bundy-funded faction which launched the first violence against us, at Columbia... Other organized physical attacks against my friends would follow, inside the United States and abroad. Communist Party goon-squad attacks began in Chicago, in summer 1972, and continued sporadically up to the concerted assault launched during March 1973. During 1972, there was also a goon-attack on associates of mine by the SWP.

According to King, LaRouche halted Operation Mop-Up after police in New York City, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Boston arrested several of his followers on assault charges and after the CP, the Socialist Workers Party, and other leftist groups formed joint defense teams and began to win battles against the Mop-Up squads.

LaRouche wrote in 2000 that "the FBI was orchestrating its assets in the leadership of the Communist Party U.S.A., to bring about my personal 'elimination'", citing a 1973 document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in 1992 which noted that the Communist Party USA was conducting a background investigation "for the purpose of ultimately eliminating" LaRouche and the NCLC as a threat to the CPUSA, and suggested helping them anonymously. LaRouche alleges that this was part of COINTELPRO, a series of covert, and often illegal, FBI projects aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.

The 1974 "brainwashing" scare

LaRouche sued the City of New York in 1974, saying that CIA and British spies had brainwashed his associates into killing him in a Manchurian Candidate–style assassination. The LaRouche group announced at a national conference that the plot involved the CIA and KGB and that the brainwashed would-be assassin was Christopher (Chris) White, a 26-year-old British national who had married LaRouche's ex-girlfriend, Carol Schnitzer, before moving with her to London to organize a British branch of the NCLC. Dennis King writes:

It was said that White had been tortured and brainwashed in a London basement by the CIA and British intelligence, who had programmed him first to kill his wife upon the utterance of a trigger word and then to finger LaRouche for assassination by Cuban exile frogmen. LaRouche mobilized the entire NCLC. They passed out fliers on a massive scale in New York and other cities, describing White's alleged tortures in lurid detail. The national office issued more than forty press releases in a two-week period. LaRouche and the Whites filed a complaint with the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and launched a lawsuit against the CIA.

Post-1974

According to the Los Angeles Times, LaRouche said he met with representatives of the Soviet Union at the United Nations in 1974 and 1975 in order to discuss attacks by the Communist Party USA on the NCLC, and to propose that the CPUSA should be merged into the NCLC. He denied receiving any assistance from the Soviets.

By the mid-1970s, LaRouche and his movement were no longer promoting a socialist agenda. Marx and Lenin were off the reading list for LaRouche's followers and were replaced by Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich Schiller, Plato, Avicenna, Nicolas of Cusa, and others. A key factor in the shift on economics may be found in the published articles of NCLC Executive Committee member Allen Salisbury on Henry Charles Carey and the American System school of political economy, culminating in his book The Civil War and the American System. The LaRouche organization, after some deliberation and dissent, adopted Salisbury's thesis that the American System approach was different from, and superior to, either Marxism or laissez-faire capitalism, and the organization's publications rapidly reflected this re-assessment. Another book was published, a collection of source documents entitled The Political Economy of the American Revolution. LaRouche also became a strong advocate of nuclear energy and directed energy technologies for ballistic missile defense.

LaRouche visited Baghdad in 1975, during which he made a presentation to the Baath Party conference on the topic of his "Oasis Plan", a proposal for Arab-Israeli peace based on the joint construction of massive water projects. LaRouche has also maintained contacts and meetings with Israeli peace activists including Nahum Goldmann (1978), then head of the World Jewish Congress, and Abba Eban, former Israeli representative to the UN. During 1975, LaRouche's newspaper New Solidarity began running articles favorable to Iraq and extensively quoting Saddam Hussein, at that time Iraq's vice-president.

In 1976, he ran for President of the United States as a U.S. Labor Party candidate, polling 40,043 votes (0.05%). This campaign was the first to broadcast a paid half-hour television address, which gave LaRouche the opportunity to air his views before a national audience. This was to become a regular feature of later campaigns during the 1980s and 1990s.

In a September 24, 1976, op-ed in the Washington Post, entitled "NCLC: A Domestic Political Menace", Stephen Rosenfeld wrote, "We of the press should be chary of offering them print or air time. There is no reason to be too delicate about it: Every day we decide whose voices to relay. A duplicitous violence-prone group with fascistic proclivities should not be presented to the public unless there is reason to present it in those terms."

In 1977, LaRouche married Helga Zepp, a leading activist in the German branch of his organization.

In 1979, a two-part article appeared in the New York Times that was strongly critical of LaRouche. Also in 1979, Chip Berlet wrote his first of several articles about LaRouche for the Chicago Sun Times, while Dennis King wrote a 12-part series for the Manhattan weekly Our Town. The same year, a former member of LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party, Gregory Rose, published an article in National Review alleging that LaRouche had established contacts with Palestinian political organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and also with the Iraqi mission to the United Nations in New York. Rose also alleged that LaRouche at this time was in contact with Soviet diplomats, while also linking up with ultrarightists such as Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby and Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Roy Frankhouser.

1980s

Since the autumn of 1979, the LaRouche movement has conducted most of its U.S. electoral activities within the framework of the National Democratic Policy Committee, a political action committee whose name drew complaints from the Democratic National Committee. LaRouche has been harshly critical of Presidential candidates Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Al Gore, and Barack Obama, among other leading Democrats. Party leaders refused to recognize LaRouche as a party member and refused to seat the few delegates he received in his seven primary campaigns as a Democrat.

Beginning in 1980, LaRouche became a regular feature on American television during election years, when he was able under U.S. election law to purchase numerous half-hour spots on prime time TV for political talks to the general public. The high point of this activity was in 1984, when he was able to raise enough money to purchase 14 spots. In one of those telecasts LaRouche called former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate, "an agent of influence" of Soviet intelligence services. The Associated Press reported that over 1,000 people complained to television stations and newspapers about the spot, which CBS was legally obligated to air. On April 19, 1986, Saturday Night Live aired a skit satirizing LaRouche's national TV ads. The skit portrayed Queen Elizabeth II and Henry Kissinger as drug dealers.

Strategic Defense Initiative

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, LaRouche says that he sought to share with the new administration his interest in the use of lasers as defensive weapons against nuclear missiles. In the mid-1980s the LaRouche campaign was noted for its support of the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as "SDI" or "Star Wars".

A LaRouche supporter and former head of West German Military Counterintelligence (MAD), General Paul-Albert Scherer, said in 1992 that LaRouche, whom he described as a "scientific-technological strategic expert", had been the "originator" of the SDI, which was adopted as an official program by President Reagan in March 1983." Scherer also said that LaRouche hads been involved in "backchannel" communications between the Reagan administration and the Russian embassy, during the year prior to Reagan's announcement of the policy.

Physicist Edward Teller, the so-called "father of the hydrogen bomb" and a prinicipal proponent of SDI and X-ray lasers, told reporters in 1984 that he had been courted by LaRouche but kept his distance. LaRouche began calling his plan the "LaRouche-Teller proposal" even though they had never met. In Teller's words, LaRouche was "a poorly informed man with fantastic conceptions".

LaRouche later attributed the collapse of the Soviet Union to its refusal to follow his advice to accept Reagan's offer to share the technology.

Other events in the 1980s

LaRouche's promotion of space colonization included dealings with German scientists and engineers who worked under the Nazi government of Germany during the Second World War, some of whom came to the United States after the war under Operation Paperclip and ended up with NASA. Among these scientists were Arthur Rudolph, and several other Peenemunde rocket experts, including Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Adolf Busemann, Konrad Dannenberg, and Hermann Oberth. According to Dennis King, LaRouche collaborated with Ehricke on ideas about the colonization of the Moon and Mars. After Ehricke's death LaRouche sponsored the " Krafft Ehricke Memorial Conference" and in 1988 delivered a national TV broadcast entitled "The Woman on Mars." LaRouche also had a relationship with Karl-Adolf Zenker and Paul-Albert Scherer, West German Admiral and former head of West German Military Intelligence, respectively, who both served in the German military in World War II. When Rudolph was forced to renounce his U.S.citizenship after an investigation into his past, LaRouche supporters formed a defense fund for him.

In 1981, Chip Berlet, Dennis King and a Detroit journalist, Russ Bellant, released a set of documents that they claimed revealed a pattern of potentially illegal activity by LaRouche and his followers, and called for the government to investigate.

In April 1982 LaRouche and his wife traveled to India, where they met with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on April 24. Shortly thereafter, on May 23, he met with Mexican President José López Portillo. (A Mexican official told the New York Times that LaRouche had arranged the meeting by representing himself as an official of the Democratic Party. At the time, one of LaRouche's organizations was the National Democratic Policy Committee, which had no connection to the Democratic Party. However, Portillo continued to maintain a relationship with LaRouche and his movement, and Portillo went on to endorse LaRouche's candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1999.) The following year LaRouche returned to India for a second meeting with Gandhi. In addition, LaRouche met with Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín.

In 1982, U.S. News and World Report sued New Solidarity International Press Service and Campaigner Publications for damages, alleging that LaRouche reporters were impersonating its reporters in phone calls. LaRouche and his aide, Jeffrey Steinberg, gave depositions that revealed that their policy was for their staff to pretend to be from non-existent publications, and that they had infiltrated the campaigns of competing presidential nominees. Without admitting guilt, the LaRouche group agreed not to impersonate U.S. News reporters in the future.

In 1984, Helga Zepp-LaRouche created the Schiller Institute in Germany, and her husband Lyndon was one of its founding members, along with his close friends American Civil Rights Movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, an important leader of the French Resistance. It became the global umbrella organization for his ideas.

An article in The New Republic by Ronald Radosh and Dennis King published in November 1984 revealed that LaRouche and his aides had been meeting with officials of the Reagan Administration, including several meetings and phone calls with Norman Bailey, then the senior director of international economic affairs for the National Security Council (NSC), and with Richard Morris, then a special assistant to former National Security Adviser William P. Clark, Jr. There were also contacts with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The LaRouche campaign said the report was full of errors. According to Bailey, the contacts were broken off after they became public. Bailey himself praised LaRouche's intelligence gathering operation, though saying he disagreed with the movement's theories and tactics. Three years later LaRouche blamed his criminal indictment on the NSC.

Lawsuit against NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) aired a news segment and a "First Camera" report on LaRouche in 1984. Produced by Pat Lynch, the reports included interviews with former members of the movement who gave details about their fundraising practices and alleged that LaRouche had spoken about assassinating U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The report said that an investigation by the IRS would lead to an indictment.

LaRouche filed a defamation suit in federal court against NBC, the Anti Defamation League (ADL), and others. Judge James C. Cacheris presided. One of the main issues was a statement by ADL fact-finding director Irwin Suall on national TV calling LaRouche a "small-time Hitler." The LaRouche organization later alleged that the NBC programs were the result of a series of meetings, attended by various journalists, an ADL researcher, a well-known right-wing businessman, a consultant to the National Security Council, and both left-wing and right-wing activists. These meetings were said to have planned a "campaign of defamation against LaRouche". On the first day of the trial, Judge Cacheris ruled that Pat Lynch would not be required to name her sources for the "First Camera" program.

LaRouche lost his case and NBC won its countersuit, with the jury awarding it $3 million in damages in what has been called one of the more celebrated countersuits by a libel defendant. The award was reduced by Judge Cacheris to an eventual payment of $258,459. LaRouche failed to pay the damages, pleading poverty. Federal District Judge Claude M. Hilton described LaRouche's testimony about being almost penniless as "completely lacking in credibility". In 1986, in the same case, LaRouche said that he did not know who had paid the rent on the estate, or for his food, lodging, clothing, transportation, bodyguards, or lawyers since 1973. The judge fined him for failing to answer. After the judge signed an order to allow discovery of LaRouche's personal finances, a cashier's check was handed over to the court to end the case. When LaRouche appealed the outcome of the trial, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in rejecting his arguments, set forth a three-prong test (later called the "LaRouche test") to decide when anonymous sources must be named in libel cases, and concluded that revealing NBC's sources had not been necessary in the LaRouche-NBC case.

1986 electoral success

In 1985, LaRouche wrote of using AIDS as a campaign issue. Sponsored by the "Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee" (PANIC), the so-called "LaRouche Initiative" qualified for the California ballot in 1986, with the signature gatherers mostly paid for by LaRouche's Campaigner Publications. Proposition 64 would have placed AIDS on that state's List of Communicable Diseases. Opponents said that the measure could have required universal testing and the quarantine of infected individuals, while proponents denied those would be requirements and said it simply allowed for public health measures to be taken. After its defeat it was reintroduced two years later and again defeated. LaRouche has given speeches and written articles in opposition to gay rights that his critics consider homophobic. AIDS was a leading plank in his political platform during his 1988 presidential campaign. Saying that "the AIDS issue is going to make me a national folk hero", he vowed to quarantine its "aberrant" victims who are "guilty of bringing this pandemic upon us."

In March 1986, Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild won the Democratic primary for state-wide offices in Illinois. Their success surprised the political establishment and brought national attention to LaRouche and his movement. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Adlai Stevenson III, temporarily left the Democratic Party rather than run on the same slate as the LaRouche movement members, and the LaRouche candidates lost in November.

Criminal indictment and imprisonment

The LaRouche criminal trials in the mid-1980s stemmed from federal and state investigations into the activities LaRouche and members of his movement. They were charged with conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting loans they had no intention of repaying. LaRouche and his supporters disputed the charges, claiming the trials were politically motivated.

In 1986, hundreds of state and federal officers raided LaRouche offices in Virginia and Massachusetts. A federal grand jury in Boston, Massachusetts, indicted LaRouche and 12 associates on credit card fraud and obstruction of justice. The subsequent trial, described as an "extravaganza," was repeatedly delayed and ended in mistrial. Following the mistrial, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted LaRouche and six associates. After a short trial in 1988, LaRouche was convicted of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and tax evasion, and was sentenced to prison for fifteen years. He entered prison in 1989 and was paroled five years later. At the same trial, his associates received lesser sentences for mail fraud and conspiracy. Jury foreman Buster Horton told the Washington Post (17 December 1988) that it was the failure of LaRouche aides to repay loans that swayed the jury in the Virginia case, and that the jury "all agreed was not on trial for his political beliefs. We did not convict him for that. He was convicted for those 13 counts he was on trial for." In separate state trials in Virginia and New York, 13 associates received terms ranging from one month to 77 years. The Virginia state trials were described as the highest-profile cases that the state Attorney General's office had ever prosecuted. Fourteen states issued injunctions against LaRouche-related organizations. Three LaRouche-related organizations were forced into bankruptcy after failing to pay contempt of court fines.

Defense lawyers filed numerous unsuccessful appeals that challenged the conduct of the grand jury, the contempt fines, the execution of the search warrants and various trial procedures. At least ten appeals were heard by the United States court of appeals, and three were appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark joined the defense team for two appeals. Clark wrote that that the case involved "a broader range of deliberate and systematic misconduct and abuse of power over a longer period of time in an effort to destroy a political movement and leader, than any other federal prosecution in my time or to my knowledge." Following the convictions, the LaRouche movement mounted failed attempts at exoneration.

1990s

LaRouche campaigned while imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center, Rochester in Minnesota. He ran for Congress in 1990, seeking to represent the 10th District of Virginia. He received less than 1% of the vote. He ran for president again in 1992, met with international personages, and gave interviews.

LaRouche continued his political activity upon his release in 1994, concentrating much of his attention on Third World nations. He was invited to Brazil by members of the city council of São Paulo, and was made an honorary citizen of that city on June 12 of that year.

In the 1996 Democratic presidential primaries, LaRouche received enough votes in Louisiana and Virginia to get one delegate from each state. However, before the primaries began the Democratic National Committee chair, Donald Fowler, had determined that LaRouche was not a "bona fide Democrat" because of his "expressed political beliefs... which are explicitly racist and anti-Semitic" and due to his "past activities including exploitation of and defrauding contributors and voters", and instructed state parties to disregard votes for him. LaRouche sued in federal court, claiming a violation of the Voting Rights Act. He and his supporters argued that the decision "will be used as a model for further future deprivations of the rights of people of color or other minorities". After losing in the district court the case was appealed to the First District Court of Appeals, which sustained the lower court. (See also Lyndon LaRouche U.S. Presidential campaigns.)

In 1999, Chinese media reported that LaRouche was one of two U.S. scholars to attack the Cox Report, a congressional investigation that accused the Chinese of stealing U.S. nuclear weapons secrets. LaRouche called the report "intrinsically fraudulent" and "a reflection of the kind of scientific illiteracy" of its writers. According to China Daily, he said its purpose was to undermine U.S.-Chinese relations. An article in EIR blamed the report on Vice President Al Gore and characterized it as an effort by Gore to undermine the Clinton administration policies.

2000s

During the 2000 Democratic primaries, LaRouche scored in double digits in multiple states, with his best showing in Arkansas, where he received 22% of the vote to Vice President Al Gore's 78%. In the Kentucky primary, LaRouche placed third with 11%, behind Gore and Bill Bradley. Again the Democratic Party refused to grant any delegates to LaRouche. In the 2004 election he issued an open letter in response to the reiteration of Fowler's claims, in which he said "Specifically, the allegation that my expressed political beliefs are explicitly racist and anti-Semitic, is not only a lie; but it is, rather, you, by your actions, who have condoned and promoted the aims sought by an implicitly racist overturn of the Voting Rights Act."

During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, LaRouche mobilized his supporters in defense of Clinton, forming a group called the "Committee to Save the Presidency.". An editorial in EIR asserted that the same people and institutions that had attacked him were behind the attacks on Clinton.

The Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement (WLYM) was founded in 2000. Cult awareness specialists asserted that the WLYM encourages college students to drop out and harasses members who tried to leave. WLYM spokeswoman Barbara Boyd called the accusations "gossip" and said that the group fights "for ideas and real policies". By 2004 LaRouche said the WLYM had hundreds of members in the U.S. and a "lesser number abroad".

In January 2001, shortly before the inauguration of George W. Bush, LaRouche began holding regular webcasts every 1–2 months. These were public meetings, broadcast in video, where LaRouche gave a speech, followed by 1–2 hours of Q and A over the internet. In his January 3, 2001 webcast, LaRouche warned that the incoming Bush administration would attempt to govern by crisis management, "...in other words, just like the Reichstag fire in Germany."

In 2001 and 2003, LaRouche toured India, speaking at various conferences and university seminars.

LaRouche gave a speech at the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up in 2002, in which he discussed his proposal for a Eurasian Land Bridge. In the question and answer session he discussed his view that the September 11 attacks could not have taken place without connivance from someone inside the Bush aministration. He also referred to "Jewish gangsters" and "Christian Zionists" "bought by money, the so-called Zionist money", according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Death of Jeremiah Duggan

LaRouche came to international attention in 2003 when Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish student from the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement, died in mysterious circumstances in Wiesbaden, Germany. The German police said his death appeared to be suicide; Duggan was hit by several cars after running onto a busy road. A British court ruled out suicide and decided that Duggan had died while "in a state of terror." Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him to the LaRouche movement; a spokesman for the German public prosecution service has said the mother simply cannot accept that her son committed suicide.

Chinese press coverage

In November 2005, an eight-part interview with LaRouche was published in the People's Daily of China, covering his economic forecasts, his battles with the American media, and his assessment of the neoconservatives. In 2006, Economic Daily, a Chinese newspaper runs directly by the Chinese State Council published an extensive biographical article on LaRouche. In December 2008, LaRouche was interviewed by China Central Television and Chinese Biz News, with the discussion focusing on his economic forecasts. In 2009, China Youth Daily published a new article of this type in which it was reported that LaRouche had forecast the 2008 financial collapse in July 2007. Many people scoffed at his warning, the paper said, but after one year it came true, as had all of his earlier forecasts.

Russia

In August 2006, LaRouche was interviewed on Vremya, one of the most popular Russian TV news programs, along with former Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov, American journalist Seymour Hersh, and others, on the topic of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. According to Executive Intelligence Review, LaRouche was interviewed on the Russian web portal KM.ru in May 2007. KM.ru reportedly referred to LaRouche as a "major American economist and political figure", going on to say that " was one of the first to launch a fight against the global financial oligarchy and its chief financial institutions: the World Bank, and the IMF. His forecasting track record is unparalleled." LaRouche publications report that he has addressed both the Economics Committee of the Russian State Duma and the Russian Academy of Sciences, most recently in 2007.

LaRouche has actively collaborated with Russian politician Sergey Glazyev, and in 1999 the LaRouche organization published an English language edition of Glazyev's book, Genocide– Russia and the New World Order. More recently, it also published The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism by economist Stanislav Menshikov. Both books include introductions written by LaRouche. In 2008, Menshikov described LaRouche as being "among those few economists who look at the root causes, and therefore see what others cannot see".

In 2007, a paper by LaRouche was presented at an April 24 conference in Moscow on the recently announced Russian plan to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait. LaRouche has long advocated this tunnel project as part of his proposal for a "Eurasian Land Bridge."

On May 15, 2007, LaRouche was a featured guest and speaker at a special ceremony held at the Russian Academy of Sciences to commemorate the 80th birthday of Stanislav Menshikov. His presentation was published in a special issue of the Russian magazine, Forum. While in Russia, LaRouche conducted numerous other meetings and interviews, including with the Anti-Globalist Resistance Group (www.anti-glob.ru,) and the Russian web portal KM.ru. He was also interviewed on the "A+ in Economics" program on the Spas TV satellite network. Spas TV is a project of the Russian Orthodox Church. On September 29 an interview with LaRouche was published in Russian by the "RP Monitor", which in its introduction described LaRouche as a "world class social philosopher, colorful public policy figure, enthusiast for scientific and technological progress, denouncer of world oligarchy, and the author of many bold economic development projects."

Electoral and lobbying activities

LaRouche entered the primary elections for the Democratic Party's nomination in 2004. He was not one of the major candidates invited to the primary-season debates, although he did participate in some alternative forums for minor candidates. He ran even though his home state of Virginia is one of a handful of states which still has lifetime denial of the vote to ex-felons, which can be overturned only on appeal to the governor. (Neither the Constitution nor Federal statute law requires Presidents to be registered voters.) The Democratic Party did not consider his candidacy to be legitimate and ruled him ineligible to win delegates. He gained negligible electoral support.

LaRouche was endorsed by at least two Democratic state representatives in 2004, Erik Fleming of Mississippi and Harold James of Pennsylvania, though Fleming later expressed regret at becoming involved, calling that endorsement "the worst mistake of all."

LaRouche was present in Boston during the 2004 Democratic National Convention but did not attend the convention itself. He held a press conference in which he declared his support for John Kerry and pledged to mobilize his organization to help defeat George W. Bush in the November presidential election. He also waged a campaign, begun in October 2002, to have Dick Cheney resign or be dropped from the Republican ticket.

In 2005 LaRouche campaigned against the privatization of Social Security, asserting that this was an issue that could successfully mobilize the population against the policies of the Bush administration. LaRouche drafted legislation in 2006 that would rescue the failing U.S. auto industry by having the federal government intervene to retool it for the purpose of building machinery for infrastructure development. This initiative was unsuccessful. In August 2007, LaRouche authored the "Homeowner and Banks Protection Act of 2007", designed to freeze mortgage rates, halt foreclosures, and prevent banks from closing their doors due to insolvency. His organization and particularly his youth movement began lobbying both the congress and also state and local governments for the passage of this legislation, in what they characterize as an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the subprime mortgage crisis.

Death of Kenneth Kronberg

On April 11, 2007 a longtime LaRouche associate, Kenneth Kronberg, 58, jumped to his death from a highway overpass. Kronberg was the co-founder and an editor of Fidelio, the now-defunct magazine of the Schiller Institute. Kronberg's printing business was reportedly in "serious arrears in tax payments, including employee withholding, due largely to lack of payment for printing jobs by other LaRouche entities."

Following his death the LaRouche movement sources made comments about Kronberg's widow, Molly Kronberg, who had also been a long time member and had been compelled to testify in LaRouche's 1988 criminal trial. Among the comments were accustions that Mrs. Kronberg had helped the prosecutor convict LaRouche. In an internal memo from 2007, LaRouche drew attention to Mrs. Kronberg's active support for the candidacy of George W. Bush, while her husband was "engaged in an all-out war" against it, implying that this may have been a factor in his suicide. In August 2009, Molly Kronberg sued in federal court, alleging that LaRouche harassed and libeled her. One of Mrs. Kronberg's lawyers is John Markham, one of the federal prosecutors who secured LaRouche's 1988 conviction. LaRouche PAC notes that Markham was attorney for Ahmed Chalabi.

Financial crisis of 2007–2009

LaRouche was credited by press in Italy, Argentina, and Mexico as the economist who successfully forecast the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Covering a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on December 17, 2008, Ivo Caizzi of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera referred to LaRouche as "the guru politician who, since the nineties, has announced the crash of speculative finances and the need for a New Bretton Woods." The article asserts that Italian Economics Minister Giulio Tremonti is "an attentive reader" of LaRouche's anti-Free Market and anti-Marxist writings. LaRouche was hosted at the Parliament by Italian Europarliamentarian Mario Borghezio of the Northern League. In a translation on a LaRouche website, Borghezio is quoted calling LaRouche "an heretical economist who had forecast the financial crisis much in advance, and who has long since developed a lucid and deep analysis of the distortions in the world economic system." Italian Senator Oskar Peterlini, in a July 2009 speech before the Senate, called LaRouche an expert in the field who had predicted the crisis.

The Argentine paper Rebanadas de Realidad published a commentary on December 17 by Chilean poet Ximena Gautier Greve, who says that LaRouche warned of the present crisis exactly ten years ago. In January 2009, Mexican Congressman Roberto Badillo Martínez (PRI - Veracruz) wrote an article in Siempre!, which he credits the "great American thinker and politician Lyndon Larouche" with having forecast the present crisis several years ago.

Health care debate

LaRouche's comparisons of U.S. President Barack Obama to German dictator Adolf Hitler in 2009 have generated controversy. LaRouche has called Obama's actions "impeachable," without actually calling for impeachment, due to his support of health insurance reform that LaRouche says is comparable to Hitler's Action T4 euthanasia program. The LaRouche movement has printed pamphlets with a picture on the front showing Obama and Hitler laughing together, and have made posters of Obama wearing a Hitler-style mustache. In Seattle, police have been called twice in response to people who were offended by the posters threatening to tear them apart or to assault the LaRouche supporters holding them. In one notable event, Rep Barney Frank referred to the posters as "vile, contemptible nonsense."

Criticism

Since the 1970s, LaRouche and his organization have been criticised from across the political spectrum, including by the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Heritage Foundation, the Anti-Defamation League, and the League for Industrial Democracy. The Heritage Foundation released a report, which stated that despite what they describe as LaRouche's appearance as a right-wing anticommunist, he takes political stands, "which in the end advance Soviet foreign policy goals." Longtime LaRouche critic Daniel O. Graham, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has stated that he believes LaRouche is an "unrepentant Marxist-Leninist" who pretended to be right-wing in order "to suck conservatives into giving him money."

LaRouche associate Jeffrey Steinberg has asserted that criticism of LaRouche coming from the ADL and related organizations was an extension of the FBI COINTELPRO program. LaRouche claimed all of this negative publicity was part of a "defamatory campaign laid the political groundwork for a later, new wave of corrupt Justice Department operations launched at, once again, the instigation of Henry Kissinger."

Allegations of anti-Semitism

In 2006, LaRouche wrote "Religious and racial hatred, such as anti-Semitism, or hatred against Islam, or, hatred of Christians, is, on record of known history, the most evil expression of criminality to be seen on the planet today."

A number of organizations, publications, and individuals have alleged that LaRouche is guilty of both overt and "coded" anti-Semitism, including the Encyclopedia Judaica, the Anti-Defamation League, Senator Daniel Moynihan, Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe, and writers Mike Royko, Dennis King, Chip Berlet, Robert L. Bartley, and Antony Lerman. The Anti-Defamation League quoted LaRouche as saying that Zionism is "the state of collective psychosis through which London manipulates most of the international Jewry" and calling the ADL "Britain's Zionist Gestapo". The ADL wrote, "The use . . . of anti-Jewish hate propaganda, the injection of anti-Semitic poison into the American political bloodstream, adds an extra and insidious dimension to the bizarre conspiracy theories and political hallucinations of the LaRouchites."

Dennis King asserts that anti-Semitic writings by LaRouche trace back to the early 1970s. King says that LaRouche made connections with neo-Nazi and fringe ultra-conservatives, including Willis Carto, which were the main reason that, according to King, LaRouche shifted his focus to the Jews in the mid-1970s (Authors Laird Wilcox and John George dispute this assertion: "Although the transient relationship is frequently mentioned to illustrate "links" and "ties" between LaRouche and the extreme right, it was brief and fleeting. Given their respective personalities, a union of LaRouche and Carto would be a miracle under any circumstances.") King asserts that some Jewish members quit the movement due to anti-Semitic jokes, Holocaust denial, and a perceived resemblance between LaRouche's writings and Mein Kampf. To placate others, King asserts, LaRouche redefined the meaning of "Jew": "To be a real Jew, he suggested, one must repudiate the State of Israel, Zionism, and the mainstream leadership of the Jewish community." King compares LaRouche's writings with various Nazi and other anti-Semitic tracts going back to the 1890s and finds a common theme of connecting Jewish power with the British Empire. King points to what he says are assertions by LaRouche that all of the main power centers in Britain are controlled by Jewish families.

George Johnson, a reporter from Minnesota, included a chapter on LaRouche in his 1983 book, Architects of fear: conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics. As an editor at the New York Times in 1989, Johnson reviewed King's book. He wrote "Mr. King probably knows more about Mr. LaRouche, that master of self-delusion, than anyone, including Mr. LaRouche himself. It is clear that the LaRouche conspiracy theory is designed to appeal to anti-Semitic right-wingers as well as to Black Muslims and nuclear engineers. But in trying to see Mr. LaRouche as a would-be Führer, Mr. King may be trying to tie together the whole unruly package with too neat a ribbon. A number of loose ends hang out, not least of which is the fact that many members of Mr. LaRouche's inner circle are Jewish." Johnson concluded by saying that although King's is the "best book that is likely to be written about this strange man and his movement", he isn't convinced that LaRouche is dangerous. Johnson wrote, "Lyndon LaRouche is less important as a threat to our political system than as a case study in the pathology of political paranoia."

Allegations of coded references to Jews

Antony Lerman writes that LaRouche's overriding ideology is that, as LaRouche put it, "History is nothing but conspiracies," and that the main group behind the conspiracies are the Jews, mostly wealthy ones such as the Rothschilds. According to Frankel, LaRouche uses "the British" as a code for Jews to avoid being accused of antisemitism. LaRouche refers to this group as the "Zionist-British organism," and sees them as having "evolved through moral depravity and inbreeding into a separate species outside the human race," writes Frankel. The British, led by the Jews, are in control of terrorism and drug networks, and it is the mission of LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees to wipe them out.

Former LaRouche follower Linda Ray, writing in In These Times, has also alleged euphemistic LaRouchian methods of communicating. She recalls reading in New Solidarity about a subhuman oligarchical species centered in London: "Although I knew it did not make scientific sense, I presumed that it was a deep intellectual metaphor that was over my head." She says that years later, when she was shown the Star of David picture with Queen Elizabeth at the top, "I quickly replied...'It is just a graphics art symbol'—which I naively thought for years. But as soon as I said it out loud I realized that I sounded ridiculous. It was as if I was waking from a nightmare."

Dennis King argues that LaRouche is a neofascist whose world view secretly centers on antisemitism and includes a "dream of world conquest." He writes that LaRouche's published attacks on Henry Kissinger include a disguised form of antisemitism, and that certain photographs of barred spiral galaxies and of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory plasmoid experiments, which appeared in LaRouche's New Solidarity and Fusion magazine, are reminiscent of the swastika, and of the Nazi "theory of spiraling expansion/conquest." He cites the 1978 illustration in New Solidarity of Queen Elizabeth at the top of a Star of David, and headlines in more recent LaRouche publications such as, "How the Venetian Virus Infected and Took Over England" to bolster his argument that LaRouche's attacks on a "British" oligarchy are often coded attacks on international Jewry. Daniel Pipes argues that LaRouche's references to the British really are only to the British, though he agrees that an alleged British-Jewish alliance lies at the heart of LaRouche's conspiracism.

Robert L. Bartley, writing in The Wall Street Journal, criticizes the title of a LaRouche-sponsored pamphlet ("Children of Satan") attacking the neoconservatives. He quotes the pamphlet's assertion that a "cabal of Strauss disciples, along with an equally small circle of allied neo-conservative and Likudnik fellow-travelers" have plotted a "not-so-silent coup." Noting that "Mr. LaRouche has chosen an Aryan-nation phrase for Jews (descendants of Cain, who was the result of Satan seducing Eve, in this perfervid theology)", Bartley calls the "Children of Satan" title "overt antisemitism." He also suggests that the use of the terms "Straussian" and "Neo-conservative" may be coded antisemitism when used by LaRouche and other writers.

Chip Berlet suggests that the commentary on Iraq by LaRouche-affiliated publications, which is incorporated into some Arab and Muslim commentaries, represents conspiracism and antisemitism, especially through the use of what Berlet describes as "stereotyped descriptions of the neoconservative network and their power." Berlet also contributed to a segment in the Encyclopedia Judaica which states that LaRouche is a "notorious antisemite", and among those who use "conspiracy allegations moved into more mainstream circles through bridging mechanisms" in a way that masks the original anti-Jewish claims by using "coded rhetoric" and thus is a "major source of such masked antisemitic theories globally."

Allegations of fascism

LaRouche publications strongly denounce fascism and warn that it is an ever-present danger. LaRouche says that the model he advocates is that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He has stated that descriptions of him as a neo-fascist or anti-Semite "originate with the drug lobby or the Soviet operation — which is sometimes the same thing." However, it has been repeatedly alleged that LaRouche and his movement have fascist aspects, starting as early as 1974. In 1976 Julian Bond called LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party "a group of leftwing fascists". By the mid-1980s LaRouche's following was called a "fascistic cult". Notable individuals that have described LaRouche or his movement as having fascist or neo-fascist aspects include Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jesse Jackson, Clara Fraser, Stephen J. Solarz, Bob Hattoy, Lenora B. Fulani, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Malik Shabazz, and Manning Marable. Dennis King, Chip Berlet, Russ Bellant, and Tim Wohlforth allege that LaRouche covertly supports fascistic policies. According to Wohlforth and Dennis Tourish:

The parallel between LaRouche's thinking and that of the classical fascist model is striking. LaRouche, like Mussolini and Hitler before him, borrowed from Marx yet changed his theories fundamentally. Most important, Marx's internationalist outlook was abandoned in favor of a narrow nation-state perspective. Marx's goal of abolishing capitalism was replaced by the model of a totalitarian state that directs an economy where ownership of the means of production is still largely in public hands. The corporations and their owners remain in place but have to take their orders from LaRouche. Hitler called the schema "national socialism". LaRouche hopes the term "the American System" will be more acceptable.

LaRouche has advanced, according to Dennis King and others, ideas which appear to be modeled on fascist and even Nazi racialist concepts. In an examination of LaRouche's writings on political theory, King argues that LaRouche was really advocating a fascist-style state in which all political dissent would be crushed. King suggests that LaRouche's relationships with German rocket scientists may indicate some form of pro-Nazi sympathies on the part of LaRouche.

In popular culture

In popular culture, LaRouche is typically portrayed as a comically paranoid conspiracy theorist — Scott McLemee for Inside Higher Ed saying that "LaRouche himself has long since become the walking punchline to a very strange joke." Episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama have portrayed LaRouche as a crank.

Books by LaRouche

• Dialectical Economics An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy. Lexington, Mass: Heath, 1975. ISBN 0669853089
• The Case of Walter Lippmann A Presidential Strategy. New York: Campaigner Publications, 1977. ISBN 0918388066
• How to Defeat Liberalism and William F. Buckley 1980 Campaign Policy. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1979. ISBN 0933488033
• The Power of Reason A Kind of Autobiography. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. House, 1979. ISBN 0933488017
• Will the Soviets Rule During the 1980's. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1979. ISBN 0933488025
• Basic Economics for Conservative Democrats. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0933488041
• What Every Conservative Should Know About Communism. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0933488068
• Why Revival of "SALT" Won't Stop War. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House Pub. Co, 1980. ISBN 0933488084
• with David P. Goldman. The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1980. ISBN 0933488092
• There Are No Limits to Growth. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1983. ISBN 0933488319
• So, You Wish to Learn All About Economics? A Text on Elementary Mathematical Economics. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984. ISBN 0943235138
• Imperialism The Final Stage of Bolshevism. New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984. ISBN 0933488335
• The Power of Reason, 1988 An Autobiography. Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1987.ISBN 0943235006
• In Defense of Common Sense. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1989. ISBN 0962109533
• The Science of Christian Economy. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1991. ISBN 0962109568
• with Paul Gallager. Cold Fusion: A Challenge to U.S. Science Policy. Washington, D.C.: Schiller Institute, 1992. ISBN 0962109576
• Now, Are You Ready to Learn About Economics? Washington, D.C.: EIR News Service, 2000. ISBN 0943235189
• The Economics of the Nöosphere Washington, D.C.: EIR News Service, 2001. ISBN 0943235200

Notes

1. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002
2. ^ Clark 1995
3. ^ Have the Mass Media Brainwashed your Neighbor about Lyndon LaRouche?
4. Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report May 2, 2003
5. ^ Minz 1985.
6. Markus 2001
7. Boynton Robinson 2008; Steinberg 2004
8. Ritchie 2000 "...the views of notorious American political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr."
9. Rose 2004. "Executive Intelligence Review, a virulently anti-semitic magazine run by conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche."
10. Oliver 2004. "It is the German front for the bizarre political cult run by American demagogue Lyndon LaRouche..."
11. Schob 1989.
12. Reardon and Greenbaum 1986: "The LaRouche organization, often described as anti-Semitic..."; also see Lerman 1988, p. 213: "LaRouche uses a code word for the Jews—the "British"—which enables him to deny any antisemitism. LaRouche's ravings against the British are based on a doctrine of anti-Semitic racialism: the British have evolved through moral depravity and inbreeding into a separate species outside the human race (the "Zionist-British organism") ... He calls mythical and his wife calls it a "Zionist swindle."
13. Copulus 1984
14. FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, Individual Record
15. FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, Individual Record
16. ^ LaRouche 1979, p. 58.
17. Montgomery 1974
18. LaRouche 1979, p. 39.
19. ^ LaRouche 1979, p. 38.
20. LaRouche 1979, p. 55
21. LaRouche 1987, p. 17.
22. Tong 1994.
23. Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. Timeline up to March 12, 2005
25. Guide to the Records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in New England 1997
26. King 1989, p. 6.
27. LaRouche 1987, pp. 18–20.
28. LaRouche 1987, pp. 37–38.
29. King 1989, p.7.
30. LaRouche 1987, p. 62-64
31. LaRouche, "How The Workers League Decayed.
32. ^ Wohlforth
33. Transcript of KPFK interview, posted on the LaRouche PAC website
34. King (1989), ch. 1
35. King 1989, ch. 18.
36. LaRouche, "The Conceptual History of the Labor Committees", The Campaigner, October 1974
37. LaRouche (1987), 116
38. Jacobs, Harold (1970). Weatherman. Ramparts Press. ISBN 671-20725-3.
39. ^ Paul L. Montgomery, "How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery", The New York Times, January 20, 1974.
40. King (1989), pp. 17–18, 20, 25–26
41. Convict Him or Kill Him: The Night They Came to Kill Me
42. LaRouche's Fateful Debate With Abba Lerner March 12, 2004
43. {{cite news|title=Nuclear group raises funds for right-wing party in U.S.|first=Ross|last=Laver|work=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto, Ont.|date=January 2, 1980|page=P.5.
44. HENRY, BILL (December. 19, 1974). "Labor Party team attempts signups". The Gastonia Gazette. Gastonia, North Carolina. p. 11-C. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
45. Hentoff, Nat (January 24, 1974). "Of Thugs and Liars". The Village Voice.
46. Montgomery, Paul L. (January 20, 1974). "How a Radical-Left Group Moved Toward Savagery". The New York Times.
47. "Death of the CPUSA", New Solidarity, April 9, 1973.
48. "Operation Mop-Up: The Class Struggle Is for Keeps". New Solidarity. April 16, 1973.
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54. King (1989), Chapter 4, pp. 25–31
55. ^ Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman, Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag Political Research Associates briefing paper, Part One, March 10, 1989
56. King (1989), pp. 27–28.
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58. Lyndon LaRouche, "How Russia was Surprised", Executive Intelligence Review, December 27 2008. (Retrieved 2009-08-20.)
59. Howard Blum and Paul Montgomery, "U.S. Labor Party: Cult Surrounded by Controversy", New York Times, October 7, 1979, and "One Man Leads U.S. Labor Party on His Erratic Path", New York Times, October 8, 1979
60. Gregory F. Rose, "The Swarmy Life and Times of the NCLC", National Review, March 30, 1979
61. Estill, Robert (March 23, 1986). "3-time fringe presidential hopeful LaRouche remains an enigma". The San Diego Union. San Diego, Calif. p. A.15.
62. GRAVES, RACHEL (March 6, 2004). "Election 2004 / Outsider making his 8th White House bid / LaRouche says he'd fix economy". Houston Chronicle. Houston, Tex. p. 4. {{cite news}}: line feed character in |title= at position 72 (help)
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65. The Associated Press (October 25, 1984.). "CAMPAIGN NOTES; Independent's Telecast Brings 1,000 Complaints". New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. B.19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
66. "SDI and the Jailing Of Lyndon LaRouche" by Paul Gallagher, March 12, 2004 issue of Executive Intelligence Review
67. Scherer, Paul Albert, General (ret.) Press conference, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., May 6, 1992.
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69. King, Dennis; Ronald Radosh (November 19, 1984). "The LaRouche Connection". The New Republic. p. 15.
70. Answers From LaRouche from February 1, 2003 National Cadre School.
71. King, Chapter Ten
72. "The Woman on Mars," video aired on national TV by the LaRouche Democratic Campaign in 1988, LaRouche in 2004 website
73. Linda Hunt, Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991
74. ^ King, Chapter 10
75. Siano, Brian (May 1992). "The Skeptical Eye: Big Head's Back". The Humanist. Vol. 52, no. 3. Washington, DC. p. 37.
76. LaRouche Cult Continues to Grow: Researchers Call for Probe of Potentially Illegal Acts December 16, 1981
77. The Role of the LaRouche Movement in World History 1990
78. "LaRouche Savors Fame That May Ruin Him", Robin Toner, New York Times, April 4, 1986
79. "Support LaRouche for President," statement published in EIR, February 27, 2004
80. ^ Critics of LaRouche Group Hassled, Ex-Associates Say January 14, 1985
81. Herald American staff reports. (August 13, 1995.). "INSTITUTE SPONSORS TUBMAN TRIBUTE THE EVENT WAS SPONSORED BY AN ORGANIZATION FOUNDED BY THE WIFE OF FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LYNDON LAROUCHE". Syracuse Herald American. Syracuse, N.Y.:. p. F.1. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
82. Zepp-LaRouche, Helga (July 16, 2004). "The Schiller Institute Turns Twenty!" (PDF). Executive Information Review. p. 7.
83. ^ "CIA ADMITS TALKS WITH RIGHTIST POL". Philadelphia Daily News. Philadelphia, Pa. November 1, 1984. p. 46.
84. Green, Stephen (January 19, 1985). "A merchant of political hate". The San Diego Union. p. B.10. {{cite news}}: Text "San Diego, Calif." ignored (help); Text "location" ignored (help)
85. Hume, Ellen (March 28, 1986). "LaRouche Group, Long on the Political Fringe Gets Mainstream Scrutiny After Illinois Primary". Wall Street Journal. New York, N.Y. p. 1.
86. "LaRouche claims security council behind indictment". St. Petersburg Times. =St. Petersburg, Fla. July 9, 1987. p. 7.A.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
87. The John Train "Salon" and the Evidence of Criminal Fraud Filed With the Fourth Circuit Court, EIR, undated
88. Summary of Relevant Evidence on the Record Demonstrating the Innocence of Lyndon LaRouche And Co-Defendents, EIR, undated
89. "SLAPP/SLAPPback: The Misuse of Libel Law for Political Purposes and a Countersuit" E Costantini, MP Nash - Journal of Law & Politics, 1990 p. 417 et seq.
90. "NBC Gets a $258,459 Check To End LaRouche Court Fight" The New York Times, November 16, 1986.
91. "Judgment is reduced in LaRouche-NBC Case" The New York Times, February 24, 1985.
92. Associated Press (February 24, 1985). "Judgment Is Reduced in LaRouche-NBC Case". The New York Times. p. A20.
93. Associated Press (August 10, 1986). "Court Fines LaRouche $2,000 For Not Answering Questions". The New York Times. p. A24.
94. AP (September 20, 1986). "LAROUCHE TO PAY $250,000 TO NBC". New York Times.
95. LaRouche v. National Broadcasting Company, 780 F.2d 1134, 1139 (4th Cir. 1986)
96. Memo from AOL libel suit, Electronic Frontier Foundation
97. ^ RODERICK, KEVIN (October 17, 1986). "LaRouche Wrote of Using AIDS to Win Presidency". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, Calif. p. 3.
98. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., "The End of the Age of Aquarius?" EIR (Executive Intelligence Review), January 10, 1986, p. 40.
99. Berlet & Bellman (1989)
100. "AIDS, economy will elect me president: LaRouche". The Gazette. June 29, 1987. p. A.2. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |locaiton= ignored (help)
101. Frantz, Douglas (October 12, 1986). "RAID BARES LAROUCHE DARK WORLD". Chicago Tribune. p. 4.
102. Kaufman, Jonathan (August 5, 1988). "LAROUCHE GROUP CALLED ADEPT AT SMEAR TACTICS". Boston Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 6.
103. ^ "LaRouche Gets 15 Years for Cheating His Backers, IRS 6 Aides Also Get Prison Terms, Fines". Los Angeles Times. January 27, 1989. p. 1.
104. Edds, Margaret (April 2, 1995). "James S. Gilmore III: Intense, All-Business Attorney General Already Has Stepped From Allen's Shadow". The Virginian-Pilot. p. A1.
105. Ford, Brian (August 20, 1995). "LaRouche Pushes For Exoneration". Tulsa World. p. N13.
106. (10) Years Ago Dec. 22, 2001
107. Sao Paulo City Council session, translation of transcript by LaRouche PAC
108. Case: court=dc no=967191a
109. Bligh, Gur. "Extremism in the Electoral Arena: Challenging the Myth of American Exceptionalism". Brigham Young University Law Review. 2008 (5). Provo: 1367.
110. Prominent Democrats Support LaRouche and Voters Against Fowler August 14, 1996
111. LaRouche v. Fowler, 152 F.3d 974 (United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit Aug. 28, 1998).
112. "U.S. Scholars Refute Cox Report". Xinhua News Agency - CEIS. Woodside. June 4, 1999.
113. LaRouche, Lyndon H. (June 4, 1999). "A Scientifically Illiterate Hoax". Executive Intelligence Review.
114. "Cox report _ a complete fabrication". China Daily. (North American ed.). New York, N.Y.:. July 16, 1999. p. 4. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
115. Steinberg, Jeffrey (June 4, 1999). "The Cox Report is a Gore, Inc. pack of lies". Executive Intelligence Review.
116. Letter to DNC Chair McAuliffe On Democratic Convention Hoax March 24, 2004
117. The War Plan for November: LaRouche's Leadership in the Democratic Party, Debra Hanania Freeman, EIR September 24, 2004
118. Soros Bankrolling MoveOn in Last Gasp Move To Steal the Nomination for Obama, LaRouche PAC press release, June 3 2008
119. LaRouche's enemies are Clinton's enemies, EIR, June 12 1998
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122. Parital Listing of Lyndon LaRouche's Personal Interventions 2002, 2003
123. Questions and Answers at Webcast with Lyndon LaRouche January 3, 2001
124. Schiller Institute - LaRoucehs Visit India, January 2003
125. Schiller Institute—Lyndon LaRouche Trip to Banglore, India
126. The Hindu : Convince U.S. against unilateralism, nations told
127. [http://www.schillerinstitute.org/lar_related/2002/lar_abu-dhabi.html The Middle East As A Strategic Crossroad], text of speech by LaRouche, Schiller Institute webside
128. "ADL Backgrounder: The Zayed Center". Anti-Defamation League. September 15, 2003. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
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130. Degen 2007.
131. People's Daily,
     *November 22, 2005 Global financial crisis is coming: Interview (I) November 22, 2005
     *Collapse of the Soviet Union forecasted: Interview (II) November 22, 2005
     *American auto industry is going bankruptcy: Interview (III) November 22, 2005
     *Wall Street should be put into an insane asylum: Interview (IV) November 22, 2005
     *If you're a soldier, you don't cry: Interview (V) November 22, 2005
     *Walking in a Jungle, You Become Familiar with the Animals: Interview (VI) November 22, 2005
     *They will create incidents in order to create dictatorship: Interview (VII) November 22, 2005
     *I'll get to China sometime: Interview (VIII) November 22, 2005
134. China Youth Daily, July 24, 2009
135. Transcript translated by EIR, "Popular Russian Web Site Interviews LaRouche," Executive Intelligence Review, May 25, 2007
136. Press release, "EIR publishes book by Russia's Glazyev," Executive Intelligence Review, December 3, 1999
137. Press release, EIR Releases Stanislav Menshikov's `The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism', Executive Intelligence Review, March 23, 2007
138. Menshikov, Stanislav, "A view from a Senior Russian Economist as Crisis Leaps Across the Planet." Slovo weekly, October 17, 2008
139. Press release, "Bering Strait Conference in Moscow Hears From LaRouche and Gov. Hickel On War Avoidance Through Economic Development" LaRouche PAC, April 25, 2007
140. Press release, "Russian Academy of Sciences Celebrates 80th Birthday of Prof. Stanislav Menshikov; LaRouche Is Featured Guest at Impassioned Discussion of Earth's Next 20–50 Years," LaRouche PAC site
141. Press release, "LaRouche Meets With Russian 'Anti-Globalist Resistance' Leaders," LaRouche PAC site
142. Press release, "KM.ru Video– Posts LaRouche Interview, Emphasizes War Danger," LaRouche PAC site
143. Press release, "Russian Orthodox Church-linked Satellite TV Airs LaRouche Interview," LaRouche PAC site
144. Аналитический интернет-журнал РПМонитор. ИНТЕРВЬЮ
145. Iraq Is a Fuse, But Cheney Built the Bomb October 4, 2002
146. Bush's Assault on Social Security | LaRouche Political Action Committee
147. Re-relase: LaRouche's Proposed Legislation For Retooling the U.S. Auto Industry for Emergency Infrastructure Development | LaRouche Political Action Committee
148. LaRouche Proposes Homeowners and Bank Protection Act in Foreclosure Crisis | LaRouche Political Action Committee
149. "Kenneth L. Kronberg Sterling Businessman", obit, Washington Post, May 1, 2007
150. Avi Klein. "Publish and Perish: The Mysterious Death of Lyndon LaRouche's Printer" Washington Monthly, November 2007.
151. ^ http://www.larouchepac.com/node/11546
152. Wagoner, Jana (August 25 2009). "After suicide, Leesburg widow sues LaRouche". Loudoun Times-Mirror. Retrieved August 26, 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
153. Weissmann, Jordan (August 24, 2009). "Former Supporter Sues Lyndon LaRouche for Libel". The Blog of Legal Times. Legal Times. Retrieved August 24, 2009. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
154. Wagoner, Jana (August 25 2009). "After suicide, Leesburg widow sues LaRouche". Loudoun Times-Mirror. Retrieved August 26, 2009. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
155. Caizzi, Ivo, "The Guru who forecast the crash of speculative finance - LaRouche's Prophecy," Corriere della Sera, December 18, 2008
156. TGCOM
157. La Padania, December 18, 2008, page 12
158. Minutes of the Italian Senate July 21, 2009. Google translation: "It was 2002 - and I would point out - this time to the Senate warned the government about the risks inherent in a market devoid of rules and transparency. The first point I made is dated 27 February 2002 and already in it pointed the finger on the financial bubble and the risks that entails an unbridled liberalism. We all remember the financial and banking crisis of 1997 in Asia and Russia, followed later by one in Latin America and, specifically, by the collapse of the new economy in the United States, in addition to the giant Japanese crisis of 2002 and the bankruptcy of Argentina. Our appeals and those of many other experts in the field, like that of American economist Lyndon LaRouche, have unfortunately remained unanswered, with the result that today we face a crisis that threatens to become a disaster like that of 1929. Today, all call for a new Bretton Woods, including Minister Tremonti."
159. Rebanadas de Realidad
160. La debacle se originó en Nueva York, México ante la crisis 2008
161. "LaRouche: "With This Statement From Him, The President Now Deserves Impeachment"". LPAC. July 22, 2009.
162. Schultz, Erin (2009-07-23). "Obama's plan blasted as Nazi-like: LaRouche demonstrations across the North Fork question health care policy". The Suffolk Times (Long Island, NY).
163. McNerthney, Casey (July 14, 2009). "LaRouche supporter threatened for linking Obama to Hitler". Seattle Post Intelligencer.
164. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/frank.heath.care/index.html
165. Ideological Odyssey: From Old Left to Far Right January 14, 1985
166. Who Are the American Family Foundation: Mind-Controllers Targetting LaRouche? April 19, 2002
167. He's a Bad Guy, But We Can't Say Why Schiller Institute Website
168. "Britain's Bernard Lewis and His Crimes" By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. September 17, 2006
169. Houston 1986
170. KING, JOHN (Jan 26, 1984). "UNITED STATES: Oddball tycoon wins some battles". The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont. p. 8.
171. George & Wilcox (1996)
172. Chapter 6, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism
173. ^ Chapter 29, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism
174. A Menance of just a crank? - New York Times
175. Lerman 1988, p. 213.
176. Ray 1986.
177. King, p. 76
178. Dennis King, "Nazis Without Swastikas" (pamphlet), New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1982, citing and reproducing illustration in LaRouche, "Micky Mouse & Pluto Move to Washington, New Solidarity, October 17, 1978 (image linked to here is from the original New Solidarity page)
179. Pipes 1997, p. 137, 142.
180. Bartley 2003
181. Berlet 2004
182. Hearst, Berlet, Porter, 2007
183. Associated Press (April 10, 1986). "LaRouche alleges conspiracy from Moscow to White House". FREDERICK POST. FREDERICK, MD. p. D-8.
184. "Local Group Hasn't Won Masses Yet". The Capital Times. Madison, Wisc. February 25, 1974.
185. AP (April 27, 1976). "Bond Says Ethnic Remark Was Racist". High Point Enterprise. p. 5A.
186. LYNN, FRANK (1983-04-22). "LAROUCHE SLATE IS FOUGHT IN RACES FOR SCHOOL BOARD". New York Times. p. B.3. ISSN 0362-4331.
187. Tourish & Wohlforth (2000)
188. King, see esp. Chapters 7, 10 and 27 through 30
189. King "LaRouche: A Dictatorial Mind at Work", New America, April-May 1982
190. "The LaRouche Youth Movement", Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed July 11, 2007
191. The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VII, The Old Man and the Lisa. Futurama: "A Head in the Polls"

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• LaRouche Political Action Committee
• Executive Intelligence Review
• World Larouche Youth Movement
• Schiller Institute
• The Cult Controversy includes a 1995 series on LaRouche by John Mintz and links to other Washington Post articles on LaRouche.
• Ancestry of Lyndon LaRouche
• Articles about LaRouche from Political Research Associates by Chip Berlet and others.
• Partners in Bigotry: The LaRouche Cult and the Nation of Islam by Nizkor Project
• Beyes-Corleis, Aglaja (1994). Verirrt: Mein Leben in einer radikalen Politorganisation. Herder/Spektrum. ISBN 3-451-04278-9.
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• American anti-war activists
• American conscientious objectors
• American fraudsters
• American military personnel of World War II
• Americans convicted of tax crimes
• Conspiracy theorists
• French Canadian Americans
• LaRouche movement
• Anti-Zionism
• Critics of the Unification Church
• United States presidential candidates, 1976
• United States presidential candidates, 1980
• United States presidential candidates, 1984
• United States presidential candidates, 1988
• United States presidential candidates, 1992
• United States presidential candidates, 1996
• United States presidential candidates, 2000
• United States presidential candidates, 2004
• Living people
• Deaths