Uganda: How America Bullies the World
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The Monitor (Kampala)
October 25, 2006
Posted to the web October 24, 2006
Posted to the web October 24, 2006
Teddy Seezi Cheeye
When IMF team visited Uganda for the first time shortly after NRM had just taken over
power in 1986, and found that Uganda did not have economic figures it needed as a pre-requisite for lending, a friendly leader of the IMF team, a Kenyan, advised his Ugandan brothers to cook up some nice economic figures, because there was no way IMF could lend Uganda money without figures. The Ugandan team retreated in the kitchen and did a wonderful statistical spicing. Economic growth rate was put at a pleasing percentage.
Now, an international word-of mouth bestseller book by John Perkins Confessions of An Economic Hit Man: The shocking inside story of how America REALLY took over the world Ebury Press, 2006, reveals the shocking truth: False and exaggerated economic projections are given in order to justify why poor countries should be lent huge credit loans, which in return are used to award big jobs to companies from donor countries, and consequently enslaves the borrowing countries and their people, to the lender countries.
According to Perkins, Economic Hit Men (EHM) are highly paid professionals, who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, USAID and other foreign donors into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy
families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, sex and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken a terrifying dimension during this time of globalisation.
Mr John Perkins, 60, who graduated from Boston University College of Business Administration in 1966, comes from a family tree of American nationalists traced to Thomas Paine who published the famous historical "common sense" which encouraged the American War of Liberation. The book on EHM's is Mr Perkins story. He was a successful EHM, who decided to confess his sins in order to be at peace with him-self.
From the time he was enlisted, he was emphatically told that his mission was to be an Economic Hit Man, and that no one, not even his wife was to know his involvements. Specifically his job was to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes USA commercial
interests. In the end those leaders became ensnared in the web of debts that ensures their loyalty.
The USA Government can then draw on them whenever it desires to satisfy it's political, economic or military needs. In return the enslaved world leaders bolster their political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants, and airports to their people. The owners of USA engineering and construction companies become fabulously wealthy. The EHM is however just a footman, if he fails an assassin (a jackal) steps in. If the jackal fails, the USA military mighty invades.
So now we know why presidents of weak countries become docile towards American dictates. If the EHM succeeds like they have succeeded in Uganda, they falsify economic indicators: economic growth becomes one of the best in the world.
The GDP tremendously improves. Poverty levels are artificially reduced. As the economy
gets ENRONISED, it is globally categorized as a "model" development state. It is rated AAA or BB+ and the donors pour in huge loans. Big corporations from the donor countries follow to do all the major donor- funded programs.
In Uganda for example, foreign consultants earn more than 95% of the $300 million in annual technical assistances while local consultants get only 5% ($15 million). During this period, the new neo-colonizers (EHM) do not stay in the old former Colonial Governor's administrative offices and residents.
The EHM digs his trenches in Bank of Uganda and in the fortified Boardrooms at the ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. EHM are more sophisticated. They come as Executives of Monsanto, General Motors, Nike, Citi Group, Wall Mart, General Motors or Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) owners of our DFCU Bank. These days they come under the guise of leaders of religious
groups, and then, ask for contracts or business deals. If EHM are successful, the loan is so large that the debtor is forced to default, and is blackmailed to pay with his pound of flesh.
But if the EHM meets a hard nut to crack, a nationalist President of country X, the assassin steps in. That is how some nationalists presidents were either overthrown or killed: In 1954, Guatemala nationalist President Jacob Arbenz was invaded, his city bombed by American air force and assassinated.
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In 1973, Chile's nationalist President Allende Salvadour, who had just been democratically elected was overthrown in a CIA-engineered plot. He was killed in a bomb blast. Jaime Roldos (Ecuador) was killed in plane crash May 24, 1981, and Omar Torrijos (Panama) was also
killed in plane crash July 31,1981.
If the jackal fails like they did with Fidel Castro or Sadam Hussein, the USA military mighty and its allies invade the country, take the president of that country as prisoner of war (President Manuel Noriega of Panama, was taken prisoner in 1984 and sentenced to 40 years by USA courts). In the case of Iraq, USA sent in a total of 500,000 soldiers.
After destroying the economy of the invaded country, USA then proceed to approve astronomical sums in re-construction of the vanquished country, and give major construction jobs to USA companies with ties to members of the ruling clique.
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