Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. was born in 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire. After serving in the armed forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II, he ended his university studies and worked from 1947 to the mid-1960s as a management consultant. Since 1952, LaRouche has carried out intensive researches into the mathematical physics of Bernhard Riemann and Georg Cantor, which served as the basis for his later successes in the sphere of economic science.
In 1974, LaRouche founded an international news agency which publishes the political newsweekly Executive Intelligence Review. Since October 1979, EIR has issued regular quarterly economic forecasts which have proven themselves the only competent ones among all government and private econometrics services.
In 1980 LaRouche ran for the Democratic presidential nomination on the platform of a program for overcoming the economic crisis, in the tradition of the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton.
In August 1983, LaRouche circulated his “Operation Juarez” proposal. This program, which has gained broad attention throughout Latin America, opened the way to orderly renegotiation of debts and recommended the creation of a Latin American “Common Market.” These proposals formed the unofficial agenda of discussion at the summit meeting of the Andean Pact nations in the summer of 1983 and many other Latin American conferences.
In October 1982, Lyndon LaRouche and in particular his wife Helga Zepp-LaRouche initiated the Club Of Life, in order to build a counterpole to the anti-human ideology of the Club of Rome.
The editors of the Executive Intelligence Review published a biography of LaRouche in July 1983 under the title Will This Man Become President? The focal points of LaRouche’s policy are his support for the development of defensive energy-beam weapons and his battle for a new world economic order on the basis of the most modern technology, centered on giant agro-industrial projects.
Since October 1979, LaRouche has publicly advocated the development of beam weapons, since only with the help of this technology, which can annihilate enemy missiles in flight, can the dangerous defense doctrine of “Mutually Assured Destruction” be superseded. In February 1982, LaRouche spoke on this subject at an EIR seminar in Washington, D.C., attended by leading Americans and Soviets. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced that the development and deployment of space-based defensive beam weapons was now the official policy of the United States.
In July 1983 the LaRouches made a three-week trip to India, Thailand, and Japan, in order to better acquaint themselves with Asia’s development potential. In collaboration with the Fusion Energy Foundation, LaRouche proposed five Great Projects which could make Asia into the center of world development: construction of a north-south canal in China, development of the Mekong River, a canal across the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, the Ganges-Brahmaputra irrigation project in India, and construction of a second Panama Canal. These development projects would not only make this region, with its 2.5 billion people, into the largest construction site in the world, but would serve as the motor for overcoming the global economic depression.