Perennial US presidential candidate diesBy ASSOCIATED PRESShome/News/World/Perennial US presidential candidate diesLEESBURG, Virginia: Lyndon LaRouche Jr., the political extremist who ran for president in every election from 1976 to 2004, including a campaign waged from federal prison, has died. LaRouche’s political action committee confirmed Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) on its website that LaRouche died a day earlier. The cult-like figure, who espoused a wide range of conspiracy theories and advocated for an overhaul of the world’s economic and financial systems, ran first as a US Labor Party candidate and later, after an apparent shift to the right, as a Democratic or independent candidate. In 1990, he ran unsuccessfully to represent Virginia in Congress. His views evolved throughout his life, but a central tenet of his apocalyptic platform warned of an inevitable global downward slide into crisis.

Source: Manila Times February 14, 2019 16:41 UTC