Who Shall Inherit the Earth?

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Who Shall Inherit the Earth?

 

Who Shall Inherit the Earth?

 

By Anwaar Hussain

 

The present chaos in the world is painted by some as a struggle

between dictatorships and democracy, yet others have termed it a war

between Christianity and Islam, calling it a Crusade. There is neither

any such struggle between democratic and dictatorial forces visible

anywhere, nor are there are any Crusades going on. We are only

witnessing a continuing saga of the Haves and the Have-nots.

 

Regardless of cast, color, creed or national identities, the world is

divided into two main opposing social classes, the tiny Haves and the

massive Have-nots. The main driving force of modern history is simply

the struggle between these two classes. Religious polarization is

merely another tool in the hands of the Haves to keep the Have-nots

busy, heads down, in their myriad struggles lest they pause long

enough to behold their own emaciated selves and the folds of fat

around the frames of the slave masters.

 

The chief instruments of the Haves are state institutions, propped and

funded by huge corporations, through which they keep the Have-nots in

line while continuing to milk them. The teeming billions, groaning

under the yoke of their own labor, are frequently given strong doses

of patriotism---laced with enough religious fervor---to numb the

feelings of pain and keep the mills grinding.

 

Just in case any one doubted that the world's population is divided

between a small fraction who own most of the wealth and the enormous

bulk who must work for them in order to survive, here are some facts.

 

According to a UNDP report, the net wealth of the 10 richest

billionaires is well above $130 billion, more than 1.5 times the total

national income of the least developed countries.

 

The WDM (World Development Movement) says that the causes of world

poverty are the policies currently pursued by governments and

multinational companies. It continues;

 

" Policies of governments and companies are keeping people poor.

Policies that ensure global trade benefits the rich, not the poor -

the three richest men in the world are wealthier than the 48 poorest

countries combined. Policies that give increasing power to

multinational companies - for every £1 of aid going into poor

countries, multinationals take 66p of profits out. The powerful are

exploiting the poor to make bigger and bigger profits. "

 

To show the current extent of global poverty, following are some key

quotations from the UNDP Human Development Report 2003;

 

" More than 1.2 billion people – one in every five on Earth – survive

on less than $1 a day. During the 1990s the share of people suffering

from extreme income poverty fell from 30% to 23%. But with a growing

world population, the number fell by just 123 million – a small

fraction of the progress needed to eliminate poverty. And excluding

China, the number of extremely poor people actually increased by 28

million. " Hence " in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Arab States,

Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa the number of people

surviving on less than $1 a day increased. "

 

" Some 54 countries are poorer now than in 1990. Of the 54 countries

with declining incomes, 20 are from Sub-Saharan Africa, 17 from

Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 6

from Latin America and the Caribbean, 6 from East Asia and the Pacific

and 5 from the Arab States. "

 

" Poverty has increased even in some countries that have achieved

overall economic growth, and over the past two decades income

inequality worsened in 33 of 66 developing countries with data. "

 

The evidence shows that not only has global inequality not been

reduced over recent years, but some recent research has argued that it

has actually increased (The Economist 26/04/2001). The Economist puts

it another way. It points out that, " This level of inequality is

equivalent to a situation where 66% of people have zero income, and

34% divide the entire income of the world among themselves equally! "

 

As the earth's resources continue to diminish fast, the greed of the

Haves has now reached a feverish pitch in direct proportion. In their

quest to siphon out the last of the riches from the earth's bowels,

they will travel far with their false ideologies and insidious creeds.

Anyone hindering their feeding frenzy will be obliterated without a

second thought.

 

Take the saga of a resource-rich region of the world, for example. The

history of Middle East since the discovery of oil has evolved around

the lengths to which the UK and USA will go to maintain control of

this oil and to prevent any rival from gaining a foothold there. Mass

murder of Middle Eastern people, political coups, assassinations and

various stage-managed social upheavals have been but merely the cause

and effect of the plan to loot and plunder. The more the media

statements from politicians and their subsequent actions are analyzed,

the more apparent the monumental deceit and deliberate misleading becomes.

 

Therefore, to think any more that the present Iraq war was foisted

simply to overthrow a brutal dictator and free the Iraqis or to stop

the spread of weapons of mass destruction is as naïve as it sounds. It

is being fought over a key energy source, oil, of which Iraq has the

second biggest reserves after Saudi Arabia. The chief aim is to secure

future supplies of such energy resources, essential to the political

and economic well being of the ruling elites. Period.

 

In other words, this war is no different from any of the wars that

have taken place in modern times. It's a commerce war. The greed of a

few is driven by the competitive struggle for profits between

corporations and states. Conflicts over sources of raw materials,

investment outlets, markets, trade routes, and strategic choke points

to control and protect these are the essential manifestations of the

gluttony of the few.

 

When the Haves judge that their " vital interest " is threatened - e.g.

needing to secure access to a key raw material, trade route or

military outpost - they go to war. Global greed of the Haves,

therefore, breeds war. Consequently massive propaganda exercises are

employed by the state to stoke the fears and anxieties of the

Have-nots regarding their material poverty and physical insecurity to

justify these wars.

 

The problem is further compounded by the fact that there are competing

gangs even among the Haves because of the natural rivalry of their

greed. Although secret organizations like the Bilderbergers exist to

minimize this competition and help share the loot equitably,

unquenchable avarice can be a dangerous thing. The real evil in this

world is thus caused by the adversarial gangs of ruling class hoodlums

who control all media outlets, and the ignorance of the Have-nots who

support them. The purpose-built divisiveness of class, race,

nationalism and religion by the ruling elites further strengthens

their cause. It is thus that the world is brought to the brink of a

blood-bath for possession of its precious assets.

 

In one sense, though, the present conflict may be called a Crusade.

Currently, the Muslims happen to be sitting on 70% of the world's

energy resources, and the Christian West's ruling elite are rooting

for the same. But if by some quirk of fate, a few alternate sources of

fossil riches were found out in, let's say, Greenland or Iceland, the

Crusade would shift there faster than one can say the names of these

countries.

 

The only counter to this onslaught of the Haves then is a united world

community without frontiers based on all the Earth's resources,

natural and industrial, becoming the common inheritance of all

humankind and being used to satisfy people's needs rather than for

cutthroat profit.

 

It is by now a given that the present ruling elites propagate wars.

Therefore, to get rid of wars, the threat of wars and the constant

preparation for war represented by maintaining huge armed forces -

this class of blood suckers has to be got rid of. To break the yokes

around their necks, the Have-nots of the world have to combine their

energies. And while they are attempting that, they have to make sure

not to ally themselves with even a tiniest fraction of the Haves.

Carrying their Crosses wrapped in national flags, the Haves tend to

behave like yeast fermenting the entire milieu around them.

 

That voices were raised against the war, millions of voices, shows

that there is hope…..the hope that the Have-nots will one day realize

the potential for mutual dependence and support, the hope that this is

not merely wishful thinking and has tangible basis in material reality

rather than mere moral conjecturing.

 

The ultimate question, then, between the Haves and the Have-nots: Who

shall inherit the earth?

 

Copyrights : Anwaar Hussain