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World Beyond War Video
The warmongers among us who benefit from endless war would like us to believe that the human species is wired for warfare, that violence is the only effective response to aggression from our enemies. If that were true, we would not have survived as a species.
Warfare has served only to dominate weaker peoples or states for territorial expansion, control of resources, and a cheap subservient labor force. In modern times, war serves to secure the world’s oil resources held by so-called enemy states. In a not-too-distant future, fresh water and food production zones will replace our relentless pursuit for liquid black gold.
To feed the institutionalized War Machine, consuming the major part of our tax dollars, there appears to be no end to the countries that threaten our national security: North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Islamic State in Syria. Iran, Russia, and Venezuela now form part of the threatening mix.
Could the Caribbean Region be next on the Threat List?
On March 12, 2015, in a Pentagon Press Briefing, U.S. Commander of Southern Command, General John Kelly, expressed concern about tracking the movement of recruits traveling from the Caribbean Region to join Islamic extremists in Syria. While the General assured those present that there’s no current threat to the United States, he expressed concern that small Caribbean nations are ill-equipped to monitor these newly-trained Islamic extremists.
“But the smaller countries,” General Kelly said, “they don’t have…a functioning legal justice system that we have, an FBI that we have, you know, layers and layers of clean policemen and women. A lot of these countries just don’t have that…” He later added, “[T]hese countries I’m talking about, Trinidad, Jamaica, places like that, Surinam, small numbers, but they don’t have that ability to track these folks.”
If you are war-weary like I am and would like to see an end to our permanent state of warfare and national insecurity, you can join the Spring Rising: An Anti-War Intervention in Washington DC during March 18 to 21.
An “eye for an eye” attitude has trapped our species in a death-loop. More constructive and peaceful means already exist for dealing with aggressors and conflict situations. Join the World Beyond War global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace. Learn about A Blueprint for Ending War: An Alternative Global Security System.
We can change our course. While there’s still time.
Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
Thanks for the reblog, Cyril 🙂
Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher, was hopeful of eventual peace among nations. His essay on this is worth reading. He believed, however, that we would go through successive cycles of war until finally the world would recognize a better way in a violence-constraining federation of nations. Of course, he could not anticipate water wars, atomic bombs, and climate change.
Dr. Stein, thanks for the reference. I found a copy of “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” by Immanuel Kant, 1795, at the following link
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm
“It follows that a war of extermination, in which the destruction of both parties and of all justice can result, would permit perpetual peace only in the vast burial ground of the human race. Therefore, such a war and the use of all means leading to it must be absolutely forbidden.” [Excerpt from Article 6]
~ We face such a threat today. I think it’s time for all nations to read and update Kant’s ideas and proposals for perpetual peace.
Think the ‘class war’ is a possible solution to end all wars.
Equality of the classes in society….where classes can move
from top to bottom and visa versa more easily.
Victorian england empire was built on the class structure.
In india it was adopted/duplicated Modi s dilemma today.
China is now the ‘capitalist’ class of the planet.
Our world is now upside down global village.
Romans conquered and civilised the tribes by adopting their gods…
Wars are less effective militarily….much more effective economically/politically/religiously.
My vision
My dream
My wish
Kamtan
“Our world is now upside down global village.”
May I add: a global village of growing numbers of refugees from war-torn regions, homeless, unemployed, underemployed, and underpaid workers.
Up the revolution !
🙂
An excellent and unrelenting organization “fighting” our warring mentalities and cultures is WorldCantWait.org
Thanks for the reference, Angela.
http://digwithin.net/2014/03/08/world-beyond-war/
This link to the World Beyond War website provides more information that supplements the above video.
Homo sapiens is undoubtedly the most intelligent creature that ever existed, together with a favorable anatomy he has come to dominate the world. However Homo sapiens is a flawed species with many shortcoming which may eventually lead to his demise. Homo sapiens is essentially a cave man who lives by the tenet “survival of the fittest” which is a legacy of our time as hunter-gathers. In an increasingly crowded and complex world we have to suppress our warlike tendency if we want to live in peace. With nuclear, chemical and biological weapons we have the potential to annihilate ourselves many times over. Until we evolve into a more benign, more emphatic species (by Darwinian evolution?) we will continue to behave as we do – competitive, selfish, greedy, vindictive and homicidal, hell bent on destroying each other.
Homo sapiens has changed very little intellectually since we left Africa and migrated to all parts of the world 100,000 years ago. We have interbred with Neanderthals and inherited some genes which enable us to survive in a cold environment. Darwinian evolution has enhanced certain traits to suit the environment in which we live e.g. the Masai of Keyna are tall and thin to dissipate heat; the Eskimos are short and rotund to conserve heat; people living in high altitudes have larger hearts and lungs to survive in the thin air; animals living in deserts require little moisture and recycle their urine; the fennec fox has large ears with a lot of blood vessels to dissipate heat; ducks have webbed feet, camels and reindeer have broad hooves to support them on soft ground and mountain goats have padded feet for traction in mountainous areas; all adapted for their environment. Black skin can tolerate UV light better than white skin and are less susceptible to skin cancer. Africans have evolved sickle shaped blood cells which can fight the malaria virus better than regular shaped blood cells. However in malaria free areas they suffer from sickle cell anemia.
Although we live in a modern high tech society we are still cave people in our DNA development i.e. our Darwinian evolution has not kept pace with our lifestyle and use of technology. For example we still practice hunter-gathering, compete in sports and use weapons which are much more powerful than clubs and spears. A Kalnishnikov rifle is much more effective at killing than clubs and spears. We are the only species that kill each other for sport. Until our evolution to live in peace catches up with our ability to turn swords in plowshares we shall continue to wage war.
Thanks for sharing, Les. I agree, our evolution has been skewed.
Thanks, too, for providing the link to the article, “The Path to a World Beyond War.” The writer notes: “War is born of deception and is manufactured for the benefit of the wealthy few. It is supported by people who gain through the military-industrial complex, and it is sold to everyone else through more deception.”