Volume 24, Number 32, August 8, 1997
Interviews
Charles Atwoki Kagenda
A longtime leader of the Ugandan Peoples Congress details the political repression, malign neglect, and economic devastation that President Museveni has wrought.
Departments
Australia Dossier
by Allen Douglas
High Court outlaws free speech.
Editorial
Defeat Britain’s “invisible empire.”
Science & Technology
Russia’s science: a strategic assessment
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. responds to a “provocative commentary” in Nature magazine by Russian physicist and former Science Minister Boris G. Saltykov. LaRouche situates the crisis in Russian science, within the context of the global economic collapse. Without understanding what makes a healthy economy “tick,” no sensible approach to science policy can be discovered.
Saltykov and the decline of Russian science
by Rachel Douglas
Second LaRouche book published in Russia
Investigation
A Bush-Kissinger ‘defector’ tells of plot vs. LaRouche
by Edward Spannaus
International arms dealer Jamshid Hashemi, who now fears for his life, has begun to disclose evidence on operations by Henry Kissinger against Lyndon LaRouche, dating from the 1979-80 Iran hostage crisis.
Economics
Even the U.S. press warns, a market crash is coming
by Marcia Merry Baker
The “crashmeisters” are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best; instead, they should listen to LaRouche.
European floods demonstrate the need for infrastructure
by Anna Kaczor Wei
What caused the death and damage was the flooding; what caused the flooding, was the neo-liberal shock therapy.
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Feature
The Ugandan hell behind London’s Museveni myth
by Linda de Hoyos
Linda de Hoyos shows how the brutal dictatorship of Yoweri Museveni is Britain’s strategic policy: today, Africa; tomorrow, the world.
I. If this is success, why are Ugandans dying?
Hailed as a model success story by London’s Financial Times and Economist, Uganda has been driven to such poverty that premature infants are “incubated” over charcoal fires.
Rewards for the marcher-lord
II. Snake oil salesmen hail Museveni’s Uganda
A sampling from some of the international figures endorsing Dr. Museveni’s cure-all elixir.
LaRouche blasts Museveni
What’s really in the bottle?
Museveni’s mouth condemns him, including his famous remark: “Hitler was a smart guy.”
Who made it?
The British cooked this witches’ brew.
III. There is no democracy in Uganda
After the parliament on July 10 voted to officially make Uganda a one-party state, U.S. Ambassador Michael Southwick observed that the act sought to “consolidate power in the hands of one group indefinitely.”
Patriot speaks out on Museveni’s hell-hole
An interview with Charles Atwoki Kagenda.
IV. Museveni’s wars of annihilation against Uganda
The bloody trail, from the time Museveni picked up a gun in 1980, to his seizure of power in 1986, to the rigging of his election last year.
London’s culture of the gun
Ssemogerere paper exposes war’s havoc
The president of the Democratic Party of Uganda proposes a negotiated settlement to the 11-year-long war in the north.
The 1991 assault on Northern Uganda
From a research paper by the Ugandan Peoples Congress.
V. Uganda: Whence do you come and whither do you go?
by G. Lukongwa Binaisa
By Godfrey Binaisa, the former President of Uganda and founder of the African Civil Rights Movement.
International
Work advances on ‘southern tier’ of Eurasian Land-Bridge
by Mary Burdman
Over the first half of this year, there has been a growing movement in Southeastern Asia, torn by both war and financial warfare, to expand that tier of the Eurasian Land-Bridge.
Correction to ‘The Political Power behind l’Affaire Cheminade’
LaRouche’s call for global reform intersects Asian financial shocks
by Gail G. Billington
An eyewitness account from the Second National Congress of the Katapat in the Philippines.
International Intelligence
National
Clinton team endorses ‘new Silk Road’ policy
by Jeffrey Steinberg
In forum after forum, administration spokesmen are reviving the state-to-state collaborative effort begun by the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.
The O’Dell case and LaRouche’s exoneration
by Marianna Wertz
House GOP leadership no longer functions
by Carl Osgood
The Republican baby boomers are going out, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood
National News
