Askary is EIR’s Arabic Editor and chairman of the Swedish European Labor Party. He gave this speech at the Schiller Institute’s April 13-14 “Forum for a New Paradigm” in Frankfurt, Germany. As many of you might remember, last November we were in this same place, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche presented an idea of how to deal […]

Transcript Current economic problems are only a particular expression of a systemic crisis of mankind, a crisis whose character is changing. The most important developments, as usual, are taking place outside the realm of the economy. They involve a fundamental change in mankind’s relationship to nature. We are operating today according to the law of […]

Transcript Dear conference participants: We, people of different faiths and different political views, representatives of various countries and continents, are united by our concern for the fate of humanity. We can see before our very eyes, the destruction of the foundation of human existence, namely, the world economy. In order for the world economy to […]

Transcript Originally, when I was requested to make this presentation on Confucius in today’s China, I thought of it as a kind of break without coffee, among so many difficult issues regarding the geopolitical crisis, financial crisis, and so on. But now, I find it’s almost a Mission Impossible, because for me, even as a […]

Transcript Dear friends, distinguished guests: Let’s consider what I’m going to say now, as an attempt to reflect upon the process of what happened yesterday [the first day of the conference — ed.], and is going to unfold today. First, everything can change overnight. Ours are times when everything can change overnight. Either we commit […]

Transcript As a director of the Ministry of Finance, I was in charge of liquidations of major financial institutions in Japan in 1997 and 1998, such as Yamaichi Securities, LTCB, and NCB. At that time, we succeeded in containing the gigantic scale of liquidations, and avoiding Japan becoming an epicenter of world economic crisis. During […]

Transcript I would like to start with the greetings from Congressman Walter Jones, which I think is very important, because Walter Jones is a Republican Congressman. He is an important figure on two bills in the Congress: One is that he was the first Republican co-sponsor of Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s bill to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. […]