It has also published editorials comparing the attacks by Seymour Hersh, and The New York Times on Leo Strauss and his alleged influence in the George W. Bush administration with those of Lyndon LaRouche, a fringe conspiracy theorist and perennial presidential candidate.

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. ( born September 8, 1922 ), also known as Lyn Marcus, is an American political activist and founder of the LaRouche movement.

He also established a " Biological Holocaust Task Force ," which, according to LaRouche, analysed the public health consequences of International Monetary Fund austerity policies toward impoverished nations in Africa, and predicted that epidemics of cholera as well as possibly entirely new diseases would strike Africa in the 1980s.

The ADL reports that LaRouche also said that the September 11, 2001 attacks could not have happened without the " connivance " of highly placed U. S. officials, that Osama bin Laden " could never have " organized the attacks, and that the foreign policy of the U. S. has been purchased by " Jewish gangsters " and " Christian Zionists.

Rees also criticized Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement saying the organization has " taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party ," and a cult-like " blind obedience.

In that time, Liberty Lobby also tried to create connections to the American political left by redistributing a report critical of President Jimmy Carter authored by frequent third-party presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche and his NCLC.

Other leaders, including Wally Hickel, the 14th Dalai Lama, Lyndon LaRouche and Sun Myung Moon have also advocated the construction of a tunnel or bridge across the strait.

It served as a vehicle for Lyndon LaRouche to run for President of the United States in 1976, but it also sponsored many candidates for local offices and Congressional and Senate seats between 1972 and 1979.

LaRouche also described Carter as " a nitwit to begin with, an empty slop jar into which bad lemonade is being poured.

In 1979, Frankhouser was also placed on the payroll as a security consultant, having convinced LaRouche that he was actively connected to U. S. intelligence agencies.

He also wrote that LaRouche was telling his membership several times a year that he was being targeted for assassination, including by the Queen, " big-time Zionist mobsters ," the Council on Foreign Relations, the Justice Department, and the Mossad.

LaRouche also calls for a reorganization of debt world-wide, and a global plan for large-scale, continental infrastructure projects.

Also in 1986, the " Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee " ( PANIC ) got an initiative on the California ballot, Proposition 64 ( also known as the " LaRouche Initiative "), which attracted widespread opposition and was defeated that November.

" LaRouche also befriended Richard Miller, a former FBI agent and fellow inmate who was imprisoned on espionage charges.

LaRouche also alleged systematic government misconduct:

The CEC also includes the Australian LaRouche Youth Movement ( ALYM ), the Australian branch of the International LaRouche Youth Movement.

They also managed three flagship campaigns in the Melbourne Region, including the campaign of Aaron Isherwood, himself a member of the ALYM, standing against Michael Danby ( long parliament's only Jewish MP and a well-known LaRouche opponent ) in the seat of Melbourne Ports.

He was also criticised by Jewish groups for having signed a petition organised by controversial American politician Lyndon LaRouche.

There was also an uneasy relationship with explicitly antisemitic groups who charged that the war was being waged on behalf of Israel ; with the few, small right-wing anti-war groups ; and with certain political fringe groups, such as the followers of Lyndon LaRouche.

Newsweek also alleged that the story was being heavily pushed within the LaRouche Movement.

The party's headquarters are in Wiesbaden, and it is also particularly active in Berlin, where German LaRouche Youth Movement activist Daniel Buchmann was BüSo candidate to become mayor during the 2006 elections there.

Ramsey Clark, who was LaRouche's chief appellate attorney and a former U. S. Attorney General, said that LaRouche was denied a fair trial.

Bobby Ray Inman, the CIA's deputy director in 1981 and 1982, said LaRouche and his wife had visited him offering information about the West German Green Party, and a CIA spokesman said LaRouche met Deputy Director John McMahon in 1983 to discuss one of LaRouche's trips overseas.

Press accounts alleged that between April and September 1973, during what LaRouche called " Operation Mop-Up ," NCLC members began physically attacking members of leftist groups that LaRouche classified as " left-protofascists "; an editorial in LaRouche's New Solidarity said of the Communist Party that the movement " must dispose of this stinking corpse.

LaRouche said he met representatives of the Soviet Union at the United Nations in 1974 and 1975 to discuss attacks by the Communist Party USA on the NCLC and to propose a merger, but said he received no assistance from them.

LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $ 100 million libel suit ; his press secretary said the articles were intended to " set up a credible climate for an assassination hit.

LaRouche would question spouses about their partner's sexual habits, the Times said, and in one case reportedly ordered a member to stop having sex with his wife because it was making him " politically impotent.

It was originally a New Left organization influenced by Trotskyist ideas as well as those of other Marxists such as Rosa Luxemburg, but opposed other New Left organizations which LaRouche said were dominated by the Ford Foundation, Institute for Policy Studies and Herbert Marcuse.

LaRouche said the party was funded by members ' dues, other small contributions, and the sale of publications like The Campaigner and New Solidarity – one a theoretical journal, the other a twice-weekly newspaper.

" I call them honest Americans ", LaRouche said.

During the broadcast, which ran opposite a similar advertisement from Carter on another network, LaRouche said that Carter would have the U. S " irreversibly committed to nuclear war by no later than November of 1977 " if elected.

They said that LaRouche, then living in Wiesbaden, Germany, was being targeted for assassination by the " Baader-Meinhof Gang ", allegedly on behalf of the Carter administration.

Lyndon LaRouche, when asked about the matter, said, " I don't know anything about it and I never looked into it, but I do know that the liberal press uses undercover press practices that are abhorrent and beneath description.

Frankhouser warned LaRouche in 1977 that, according to his claimed CIA contact " Mr. Ed ", he was being considered for assassination, and introduced him to Mitchell WerBell III, a noted Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) operative, mercenary, operator of a counterterrorism school, accused drug trafficker, firearms engineer, and arms dealer who said he had an ongoing connection to the CIA.

A government official later said that Frankhouser was one of the few people who could call LaRouche directly.

LaRouche denied the newspaper's charges, and said he had filed a $ 100 million libel suit.

From this it followed, Bronfenbrenner said, that LaRouche viewed bourgeois economists ' concern with prices as reductionism, versus the Marxian concern with values.

LaRouche said banks should not be bailed out, but be placed in receivership by the state.

The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada was a Canadian political party formed by Canadians who supported the ideology of U. S. politician Lyndon LaRouche in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections.

Beginning October 6, 1986, the Leesburg, Virginia, headquarters of the LaRouche organization was searched in a coordinated, two-day raid by hundreds of officers of the FBI, IRS, other federal agencies, and Virginia state authorities, supported by armored cars and a helicopter.

Kwiatkowski responded by saying, among other points, that she had never supported or dealt with LaRouche.