LaRouche View of Africa Infrastructure and Four Powers Agreement Reported By UN-Linked Publication

MediaGlobal reported March 4, "Lyndon LaRouche, a notable economist, is organizing for a four-power alliance between Russia, China, India, and the United States. The idea is to initiate a new credit system to invest in global infrastructure projects in rail development and nuclear energy, which would greatly benefit the economic development of African countries." MediaGlobal was drawing from a longer statement it had requested from EIR's Lawrence Freeman, although this passage was presented without quotes. MediaGlobal, which identifies itself as an "independent media organization," has informal ties to the UN Secretariat.

The statement appears in an article on East Africa by Rachel Pollock, who explains that "The Northern Corridor is the 'busiest and most important route in central and east Africa,' linking Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, according to the Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA). The route also provides links to southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and northern Tanzania. There are a variety of infrastructure facilities along the route, which include a road network, rail network, rail-lake transport, inland water routes, inland container depots, and an oil pipeline."

Then Pollock brings in LaRouche: "Lawrence Freeman, director of the African Desk of Executive Intelligence Review at the Schiller Institute told MediaGlobal, 'We have to situate the usefulness of the Northern Corridor in the larger context of vital infrastructure projects needed for the survival of Africa. The recently proposed rail line from Port Sudan to Dakar is an example of the type of infrastructure projects that will integrate Africa and create new cities and manufacturing centers, which will generate new physical wealth, uplifting Africa out of their abject poverty.' In addition to providing land-locked African countries access to ports and trade routes through high-speed rail transportation, energy production and water management are essential to the transformation of the Northern Corridor. Freeman told MediaGlobal, 'Nuclear power is the most efficient way to provide the energy needed for a productive economy. We should support the Republic of South Africa's production of Modular Pebble Based [sic] nuclear reactors. In addition to water management, nuclear-powered desalination of water would provide billions of new cubic feet of potable water.'"

Pollock continues with the above statement describing the Four-Power Agreement, although without attribution.