On April 2, the article titled “The LaRouche Outlook: Between the British and U.S. Economic Models” appeared in the Moscow-based journal New Eastern Outlook. The author is Tamer Mansour, an independent Egyptian writer and researcher, who ended his April 2 posting, “to be continued.”
The article noted that Lyndon LaRouche always attracted a large following of youth from a variety of backgrounds and from many continents. In Russia LaRouche’s biggest following came from leading intellectuals and in 1993 LaRouche was elected as a member of “The Academy of 100,” the International Ecological Academy of Russia.
Mansour stated that LaRouche “was considered one of the most prominent and controversial political thinkers in the United States and beyond, as his school of thought in politics, economics, history, and culture, were almost always at odds with the dominant political status quo in America, and defied the norms and practices of the ruling establishment.” Often this establishment objected to LaRouche’s “ardent support for the war on global drug cartels, as well as the banks and international financial institutions that stood behind this illegal trade.” He explains that ultimately LaRouche “was imprisoned in the U.S. for authoring the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) policy, and leading a global campaign against the predatory lending practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), more than 12 Russian elected politicians and activists signed appeals for the release of Lyndon LaRouche.”
