"The Great Change of 2009"

November 3, 2009 (LPAC)-- Twenty years ago this week, the world underwent a revolutionary change, as the German population carried out a peaceful revolt that brought down the Wall, and spread a process of political liberation eastward. Yet, this great moment found a little people. Despite the explicit offer which had been made to European and Soviet leaders by Lyndon LaRouche, slightly more than a year earlier (Oct. 12, 1988), the economic development program that would bring both East and West out of misery was not realized. This period, as Helga Zepp- LaRouche has pointed out,turned into the Lost Opportunity of 1989.

Yet, as Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche reviewed in her webcast last week, she and Lyndon LaRouche responded to that situation by expanding their efforts: first, the European Triangle, then the Eurasian Land-Bridge, were put on the table, as a lifeline to East and West, out of a dying monetarist system. An intensive educational campaign was waged, from capital to capital.

The seeds were planted, and now, as Mr. LaRouche has emphasized, his efforts are beginning to bear fruit. Faced with a collapse that portends an immediate plunge into a New Dark Age, the major Eurasian powers—Russia, China, and India—have gone beyond simply listening to Lyndon LaRouche, and have begun to act. The concrete steps taken at the Oct. 13-15 meetings between Prime Minister Putin and the Chinese leadership represent a qualitative, if only initial, step in the direction of realizing LaRouche's Four Powers plan for a new credit-based financial system that will put the world on the road to reindustrialization.

We are looking at the kind of revolution which Lyndon LaRouche discussed with Russian human rights lawyer Victor Kuzin,when Kuzin interviewed him in prison in 1993: "There are two ways to make a revolution. One is, any idiot can start shooting in the street. The other way to make a revolution, is to use the forces of the mind to bring about a revolution. The force of patriotism, for example. We have a people. If the people care for the nation, that is the most powerful motivation we have."

In the wake of the Russia-China agreements, and Kuzin's letter to Russian President Medvedev urging him to listen to LaRouche, this 1993 interview is now receiving enormous attention on the internet. There have been over 800 people visiting this interview on the EIR Russian site— and that doesn't count the other sites where it is available. There is an intellectual explosion in this area, which goes along with the active debate about the Russia-China agreements themselves, in which the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is playing an active role—as it did back in the mid-1990s in coordination with Helga Zepp-LaRouche's organizing trip to China.

Nor is this intellectual ferment only evident in Russia. Although details can't be made available, LaRouche and his representatives are engaged in active organizing among leading circles in India and China as well, to expand the process that has taken a qualitative step forward.

Which brings us to the question of the United States, where, as LaRouche pointed out in his 'Heartbeat Is Heard in Asia' piece, the reins of political power are still in the hands of Obama's British controllers. There is no revolution of the mind in Washington—because those in power are mindless, if not evil. The task falls directly on LaRouche again, to break through with the conceptions that can bring the United States out of the present Obama-led dive into national- political suicide. The U.S. must play its historic role as part of the Four Powers, but only we as a movement can make that happen.

Lyndon LaRouche has provided the tools with which this can be done, and he will do so again in the Nov. 11th webcast, that is just around the corner. Build aggressively for that webcast, to make a breakthrough for the nation. Mankind cannot afford a "lost chance" of 2009.