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VIPs Calling for Lyndon LaRouche's Exoneration
Updated May 14, 2019.
Here is a selection of VIP signers supporting our call for President Trump to exonerate Lyndon LaRouche. We will be updating this list as our campaign develops. For more on LaRouche's exoneration and where to sign and share the petition, visit our campaign pamphlet, 'Restoring the Soul of America: The Exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche.'
United States Current and Former Elected Officials
Sen. Mike Gravel, Alaska
Former two-term U.S. Senator (Alaska), read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, candidate for U.S. President, 2008 and 2020
Hon. Edwin W. Edwards, Louisiana
Governor of Louisiana (1972-80, 1984–88, 1992–96); Member of U.S. Congress, Louisiana CD 7 (1965–1972)
Hon. Thomas Jackson, U.S.
Alabama House of Representatives (D-68)
Hon. Justin Price, Rhode Island
Rhode Island House of Representatives (R-39)
Alfonso Cirulli, New Jersey, USA
Mayor of Barnegat Township, New Jersey
Sen. William “Bill” Owens, Boston, MA
Former Massachusetts State Senator (D)
Hon. J.N. Dimos, Monroe, Louisiana
Former Speaker, Louisiana House of Representatives
Hon. LaMar Lemmons, United States
Former member, Michigan House of Representatives, Former member, Detroit Board of Education
Hon. William Ferguson “Fergie” Reid, Virginia
Civil rights activist, first African-American elected to Virginia House of Delegates, 1968
Fred Huenefeld, Jr., Monroe, Louisiana
Louisiana State Democratic Central Committee
Bob Van Hee, Minnesota, USA
County Commissioner, Redwood County, Dist. #4
John W. Matthews, New York
Former Chair of Nassau County Democratic Committee, New York
United States
Tony Nelson Anderson
Vice President, Kansas Cattlemen’s Association
Jim Benham
President, Indiana Farmers Union
William Binney, Washington, D.C.
Former Signals Intelligence Dir., U.S. National Security Agency (ret.); Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
George Bioletto, Long Beach, CA
International Assoc. of Machinists, Trustee
Abraham Bolden, Sr., Chicago, Illinois
First African-American Secret Service Agent in US under JFK; author, The Echo From Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African-American on the White House Secret Service Detail & His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK
Elena Branson
President, Russian Center NY
Ellen Brown, California
President of the Public Banking Institute; author of Web of Debt and other books
Dr. Victor Chang, California, USA
President, US-China Forum, Professor of Economics, USC (retired)
Dr. Hal Cooper, USA
Cooper Consulting, Chairman, Freight Transport Advisory Board, Seattle, Washington
T. Herbert Dimmock, Maryland
Founder & Director of “Bach in Baltimore”
Paul Driessen, Virginia
Columnist and consultant on energy, environment, and civil rights
Frank J. Endres
California farm leader
Chris Fogarty, Chicago, Illinois
Irish-American activist and author, Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept it Perfect
Sergey Gladysh
President and CEO, Russian–American Cooperation Initiative
Professor Vladimir Golstein, Rhode Island
Assoc. Professor of Slavic Studies, Brown Univ.; author and media commentator
Cathy A. Helgason, M.D., Illinois
Professor of Neurology (retired) Univ. Illinois
Rev. Bishop Nicolas Homicil, Boston, MA
Black Ministers Alliance of Greater Boston; Advisory Bd. Haitian-American United; 1991 Human Rights Visitor to Guantanamo Bay
Tom Holthaus
Kansas farm leader
Appo Jabarian, Glendale, California
Publisher and editor, Armenian Life magazine
Dr. Joseph Janco, Washington, D.C.
Executive Director, The Eurasia Center
Dave Janda
Radio talk show host, WAAM, Michigan
James George Jatras, Washington, D.C.
Former Foreign Policy Advisor to U.S. Senate Republicans
Paul Jensen
Radio talk show host, KTKK, Salt Lake City, Utah
Vladislav Krasnow, Russia/USA
Founder and head of the Russian American Goodwill Association (RAGA)
John Lampl, North Dakota
Former State President, CWA; Former Dist. Rep., AFL-CIO
John M. (Jack) Lynch, Chicago, Illinois
Republican Party Trump Convention Delegate, successfully introduced Glass–Steagall into GOP Party Platform, 2016; retired banker
Caleb Maupin
Journalist and political analyst
George Miller, California
Publisher/Editor, Ventura County, Citizens Journal
Suzzanne Monk, Maryland
Author; MAGA podcast host; Trump activist
Wayne Moore, Nevada
Retired NASA
Ronald O’Donnell, California
Former Democratic Party Candidate for State Senate
Harry Quinlan, New Jersey
President, Center for Garden State Families
Earl Rasmussen, Washington, D.C.
Exec. Vice President of the Eurasia Center
Phil Restino, Florida
Vice President, Central Florida Veterans for Peace
Rick Staggenborg, Oregon
Founder, Soldiers For Peace International Captain, U.S. Army (retired)
Mary Sullivan
Founding Member, Friends of Irish Freedom, Chicago, Illinois
Thomas Wysmuller
Meteorologist, founding member of NASA’s “The Right Climate Stuff,” Houston, Texas
Tim Yanovskiy, Seattle, Washington
Immortal Regiment USA
The Americas
Adm. (ret.) Miguel Beltrán Lavandenz, Bolivia
Retired Admiral and Bolivian diplomat
Fausto Charris, Colombia
Farm leader
Carlos Díaz Busti, Argentina
President, National Unity and Independence Movement
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero, Medellin, Colombia
Former Pres. of Central Union of Workers (CUT), Dept. of Antioquia
Julian Fell, British Columbia, Canada
Former and current acting Director, Area F. Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Julio Carlos González, Argentina
Former Legal Secretary to the Presidency
Max Ibáñez, La Paz, Bolivia
Former Sec. of Grievances, Nat’l Trade Union Federation of Electricity, Telephones & Water - Bolivia
Dr. Kirk Meighoo, Trinidad & Tobago
Former Senator, Parliament of Trinidad & Tobago; host of podcast “Independent Thought & Freedom”; member Advisory Board of The Integrationist (Caribbean)
Jaime Miranda Peláez, Mexico
Former president of the Small Landowners Association of the state of Sonora, and former president and current Advisor to the Agricultural Credit Union of Cajeme, Sonora
Mario Roberto Morales, Guatemala
Writer, academic, journalist
Casimiro Navarro, Mexico
Former Mayor of Hermosillo, Sonora; industrial engineer
Dr. Eduardo M.A. Peixolo, São Paulo, Brazil
Prof. of Physical Chemistry (ret.) Univ. of São Paulo; former Brazil delegate to World Health Organization; former Superintendent, Technical Board of Brazil’s Development Bank (BNDES)
Rafael Reyes Jerez, Dominican Republic
Journalist, cable TV host
Vice Commodore Horacio Ricciardelli, Argentina
Retired Air Force, Malvinas War hero
Iván Patricio Ruíz, Quito, Ecuador
Economist; academic; former Economic Advisor to the Vice Presidency
Dr. Héctor Claudio Salvi, Argentina
Former Governor, Santa Fe Province
Petra Santos, Mexico
Rep. of Federal Secretary of Agricultural Development Ministry to Sonora; former federal Congresswoman, with Morena Party
Gualberto Tapia Vargas, Bolivia
Agronomist, author
Vaska Tumir, Canada
Professor (retired) at Conestoga College, Ontario
Europe
Sen. Toni Iwobi, Italy
Member of Italian Senate, vice chair Foreign Relations Committee, Lega Nord party
Sen. Roberto Mura, Italy
Former member of Italian Senate; now regional councilman
Amb. Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, Greece
Former Secretary General, Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization
Rev. Andrew Ashdown, England
Anglican priest; leader of frequent fact-finding missions to Syria; author The Stones Cry Out, 2006
Prof. Blagoje Babić, Serbia
Professor of International Finance; member of Serbian Academy of Economic Sciences, Belgrade
John Bosnitch, Serbia
Bureau Chief of InterMedia Center News Agency, Tokyo, Japan; political activist
Col. (ret.) Alain Corvez, France
International strategy consultant, retired colonel, former International Relations Consultant of the Defense & Interior Ministries, Paris
Sergio d’Elia, Italy
Former member of Parliament, head of Nessuno Tocchi Caino, an organization against the death penalty; in the 1990s, collected signatures of 88 Italian Members of Parliament to free LaRouche
Prof. Hans Fischer, Germany
Fregattenkapitän, retired (Navy Commander)
Antonino Galloni, Italy
Economist; Director General of the Italian Labor Ministry (1993–1996); head of Observatory on the Work Market at the Italian Ministry of Labor (1990–2002); OECD Representative of the Italian Labor Ministry (2002–2018); author of numerous books
Bassam el Hachem, France / Lebanon
professor, author
Doris Honegger, Switzerland
President Impulswelle, Zurich
Alex Krainer, Monaco
Author of Grand Deception, which details the true story of Bill Browder, who played a leading role in promoting the Magnitsky Act anti-Russia sanctions in the U.S. and Europe.
Martin Kruse, Denmark
Former city councilman, engineer, teacher
Dr. Edward Lozansky, Russia
President, American University in Moscow
Anika Telmanyi Lylloff, Denmark
Violinist Royal Danish Orchestra (ret); Concertmaster in Sinfonia Selandia
Leena Malkki, Sweden
Opera singer, founder and producer at Operafabriken
Rosario Mancino, Italy
Parliamentary aide in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
Volodymyr Marchenko, Ukraine
Deputy Chairman, Progressive Socialist Party, Ukraine
Carlo Levi Minzi, Italy
Concert pianist; Tenured Professor at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, Milan, Italy; founding member of the Schiller Institute
Alexander Nagorny, Russia
Deputy editor of Zavtra newspaper, historian, member of Izborsk Club, Russia
Jens Jørgen Nielsen, Denmark
Associate professor, Niels Brock Business School, former Moscow correspondent for Politiken, author of many books about Russia and Eastern Europe (including Ukraine in the Field of Tension and On his Own Terms — Putin and the New Russia), leader of “Russian-Danish Dialogue”
Thomas Grønlund Nielsen, Denmark
Nuclear physicist, teacher, author
Mike Robinson, England
Editor, UK Column
Rainer Sandau, Germany
Director, Satellites and Space Applications, International Academy of Aeronautics
Gian Marco Sanna, UK, Italy
Violinist, director of Camerata Geminiani
Col. (ret.) Ulrich Scholz, Germany
Oberst (Colonel), retired
Lilya Takumbetova, Ufa, Russia
Assoc. Professor, Bashkir State Pedagogical University
Marcello Vichi, Italy
Engineer; author of Transaqua project; former Foreign Director, Bonifica, Inc.
Dr. Natalia Vitrenko, Ukraine
Chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party, Ukraine
Zhao Yinong, Finland
CEO of GBTimes News
Hon. Professor Ivo Christov, Bulgaria
Member of Bulgarian Parliament; Professor of Sociology, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Asia
Senior Col. (ret.) Shixiu Bao, China
Professor, PLA Academy of Military Science
Matthius Chang, Malaysia
Lawyer and Political Activist
Fouad Al-Ghaffari, Yemen
Chairman of the Advisory Office for Coordination with the BRICS, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen; President of Yemeni BRICS Youth Cabinet; 2013 director general of Yemen’s Ministry of Human Rights
Herman Laurel, Philippines
Journalist, TV Interview Host
Chandra Muzzafar, Malaysia
Founder and Director, JUST International
Pakdee Tanapura, Thailand
International Executive Committee for the Study of the Kra Canal Project
Emmanuel Topacio, Philippines
Attorney
Antonio Valdez, Philippines
Founder, Citizens National Guard; Senatorial Candidate
Qinduo Xu, China
Political analyst on current affairs, producer and host, “TODAY”