September 15, 2003

 

                                                                               Nations as Parents and Children B

                                                                                                  Child Abuse

 

 

       Type of Abuse

 

                               The Parents

                     ADeveloped Countries@

 

                              The Children

                     ADeveloping Countries@

 

Killing

 

(1)   Armed Conflicts, 1990-2001:

No major armed conflict has occurred in countries which are, according to the United Nations, Ahigh-income members of the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD).(a)

 

 

(1)   Armed Conflicts, 1990-2001:

All 57 major armed conflicts which have occurred during this period, have been on the soil of other countries than the high-income OECD countries. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratios 2001:

           Infant Mort.          15

           Under-5 Mort.      17

 

(2)   Sanctions against Iraq (August 6, 1990-Present):

Though the sanctions are administered by the United Nations, the United States has been the leading proponent. 

 

 

United States: Infant (under-one year) and under-five mortality rates:

 

Year          Infant Mortality    Under 5 Mortality

                 (% of Live Births)     (% of Live Births)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2001                    0.7                       0.8.

 

 

(2)   Sanctions against Iraq:

UNICEF has estimated that from 1990 to 1998, 500,000 children under the age of five died as a direct result of the sanctions.  The total number of people killed until 1998, is in the order of 1,000,000.  

 

Iraq: Infant and under-five mortality rates:

 

 

Year          Infant Mortality    Under 5 Mortality

                  % of Live Births)     (% of Live Births)

 

1960                     11.7                      17.1

1970                       9.0                      12.7

1980                       6.3                        8.3

1990                       4.0                        5.0

1995                       9.8                      11.7

1998                     10.3                      12.5

1999                     10.4                      12.8

 2001                    10.7                      13.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratio Total Deaths   588

                  

 

(3)   The 1991 Gulf War (01/16/91 - 02/27/91)

 

                                         Battle Deaths

 

     United States                      141 (b)

     Britain                                  29

 

     Total                                  170

 

(3)   The 1991 Gulf War

 

           Battle Deaths   Civilian Deaths      Total

 

 

 

 

Iraq          85,000               15,000             100,000

 

Abandonment

     Physical

 

 

 

 

 

    Ratio HIV:                              OECD/Botswana,                  Lesotho, Swaziland

      &  Zimbabwe           300

 

 

 

(1)   HIV/AIDS:

 

                      Population     Women       Percent of                              2001        Ages 15-49      Women                                              with HIV          15-49

 

                                    

OECD (a)

Countries

 (30 countries)

                  1,140,800,000     360,000            0.03

 

 

(1)   HIV/AIDS:

 

                      Population      Women       Percent of                              2001       Ages 15-49      Women                                                 with HIV         15-49

 

Botswana

Lesotho

Swaziland

& Zimbabwe

Total            17,400,000       1,639,000             9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Ratio Infant. Mort.       12

 

(2)   Differential in Infant Mortality:

 

                       Population           Infant Mortality

                            2001            (per 100 Live Births)

 

High-income

   OECD (a)

   Countries

   (24 countries)

                       906,800,000                 0.5

 

 

 

(2)   Differential in Infant Mortality:

 

                       Population           Infant Mortality

                            2001            (per 100 Live Births)

 

 

 

ADeveloping

   Countries@ (c)

                    4,863,800,000                 6.2

 

Abandonment

   Emotional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratio Health Exp:    205

 

 

 

(1)   Health Expenditures:

 

                          Population    Health Expenditures

                              2001                 per capita

                                                    (in PPP US$) (d)                                                                 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States  288,000,000               $4,499

 

 

 

(1)   Health Expenditures:

 

                        Population      Health Expenditures

                            2001                  per capita

                                                    (in PPP US$) (d)                                                                  2000

 

Benin, Chad

Congo, Eritrea

Guinea-Bissau

Madagascar

Myanmar

Nigeria

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Uganda

Total               317,800,000              $22 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Ratios Life Exp:                     Sweden/Zambia           2.4

   Sweden/Sierra Leone   2.3

 

(2)   Life Expectancy at Birth:

 

                       Population            Life Expectancy

                            2001                       at Birth

                                                            (Years)

 

 

 

Sweden     8,900,000                             80

 

 

(2)   Life Expectancy at Birth:

 

 

                       Population            Life Expectancy

                            2001                       at Birth

                                                            (Years)

 

Zambia           10,600,000                      33

Sierra Leone     4,600.000                     35

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratios

           GDP                   13.2

           Life Exp.              1.1

           Inf. Mort.           35

           Under-five         42

 

(3)   The Palestinians:

In 1948, 750,000 Palestinians, more than half of the Palestinian population at the time (1,380,000), were driven off their homeland by the Israeli army.  In 1967, Israel conquered  the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, areas which had been conquered by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, at the time of Israel=s creation in 1948.  These two areas represent 22 percent of the original Palestine. 

 

According to Kimmerling, the territory between the Mediterranean and the Jordan river today contains about 5,000,000 Jews (and non-Arabs) and 4,500,000 Palestinians (citizens and non-citizens). 

 

For 2001, the United Nations lists the following data for Israel:

 

Population                                                 6,200,000

Gross domestic product (GDP) (per capita) $17,024 Life expectancy at birth (years)                            79 Infant mortality rate (per 100 live births              0.6 Under-five mortality rate (per 100 live births)     0.6

 

(3)   The Palestinians:

Today, the Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are stateless.  They are under Israeli occupation and surrounded by Israeli settlements built on their land.  Of this population living in the AOccupied Palestinian Territories,@ 53 percent live below the poverty line of $730 per year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For 2001, the United Nations lists the following data for the AOccupied Palestinian Territories:@

 

Population                                                 3,300,000  GDP (per capita)                                            $1,286 Life expectancy at birth (years)                             72 Infant mortality rate (per 100 live births)              21 Under-five mortality rate (per 100 live births)      25   

 

 

Use of the Child

     as a Sexual Object

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratios GDP:

           Japan/Thailand      17

           Switz./Thailand     18

           Germ./Thailand     12

 

(1)   Hiring Women:

Japan is the country which imports the most Thai women.  With a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of US $32,601, in 2001, Japanese men are able to pay considerable sums for young rural girls from Thailand.  Their fear of HIV/AIDS has increased their demand for virgins.  The women are controlled with extreme violence.

 

In Switzerland, girls are brought in on Aartist@ visas as exotic dancers, and must also work as striptease dancers to meet the terms of their employment.  In 2001, Switzerland had a per capita GDP of US $34,171.

 

In Germany, the girls are usually bar girls and are sold to men by the bartender or bouncer.  In 2001, Germany had a per capita GDP of US $22,422.

 

 

(1)   Women for Hire:

Thailand=s Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that in 1994, there were 50,000 Thai women living illegally in Japan and working in prostitution.  In 2001, Thailand had a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of US $1,874.

 

Control of the

     Child=s Body

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Ratios:

          Iraq/US

               Inf. Mort.          15

               Under-5            17     

         Afghanistan/US

                Inf. Mort.         24

                Under-5           32

 

 

(1)   Harming the Gene Pool:

Countries in which the United States has used radioactive weaponry include Japan, the Marshall Islands (Bikini), Puerto Rico (Vieques), Iraq,  Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.

 

Uranium 238 has a half-life of 4,500,000,000 years.  

 

  Area                 Infant Mort.    Under-five Mort.

                       (% of Live Births) (% of Live Births)

                                  2001                    2001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

United States              0.7                       0.8 

 

 

(1)   Gene Pool harmed:

To my knowledge, the United Nations is not monitoring the excess cancers and congenital deformities to be expected due to the rise in number of mutations from the increased radiation.

 

 

 

 

 

  Area                 Infant Mort.    Under-five Mort.

                       (% of Live Births) (% of Live Births)

                                  2001                    2001

 

Japan                        0 .3                         0.5

Marshall Islands        5.4                         6.6              

Puerto Rico                B                             B

Iraq                        10.7                        13.3

Kuwait                      0.9                         1.0

Saudi Arabia             2.3                         2.8

Bosnia & Herzeg.     1.5                         1.8

Kosovo                       B                            B

Afghanistan           16.5                       25.7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Ratio CO2

        OECD/Least Dev.    62

 

(2)   Global Warming:

 

                              Population       Carbon Dioxide

                                   2001                Emissions

                                                         (Metric tons

                                                           per capita)

                                                               1999

 

High-income

   OECD

   Countries         906,800,000               12.3

 

 

(2)   Global Warming:

 

                              Population       Carbon Dioxide

                                  2001                Emissions

                                                         (Metric tons

                                                           per capita)

                                                               1999

 

ALeast

    Developed

    Countries@ (e)   684,100,000                0.2

 

Control of the

     Child=s Sexual Life

 

(1)   The Right to Abortion:

The 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, legalized abortion in the United States.

 

 At the time, Justice Brennan observed that privacy is a species of liberty: AI would identify three groups of fundamental freedoms that >liberty= encompasses...

     (a)  Freedom from bodily restraints or                               inspection, freedom to do with one=s body                 as one likes and freedom to care for one=s                  health and person.

     (b)  Freedom of choice in basic decisions of life,              such as marriage, divorce, procreation,                       contraception, and the education and                          upbringing of children

     (c)  Autonomous control over the development                and expression of one=s intellect and                          personality.

 

Since Roe v. Wade, there have been more than 40,000,000 abortions in the United States.

 

 

(1)   No Right to Abortion:

The United States does not allow these freedoms for developing countries.  Family planning programs receiving United States funding are forbidden from mentioning to women that abortion is an option. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2)   Disdain for Women and Children:

The United States has not ratified the following major international human rights instruments:

     (a)   The International Covenant on Economic,                   Social and Cultural Rights (1966).

     (b)   The Convention on the Elimination of All  

               Forms of Discrimination against Women                   (1979).

     (c)   The Convention on the Rights of the Child                 (1989).

 

 

(2)   Concern for Women and Children:

 

   Instrument            Countries      Countries not                                    Participating    Participating    

 

Soc. & Cultural            146                 7 (f)  

Women                         170                 3 (f)

Child                             191                 2 (f)

 

Control of the

     Child=s Mind

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1)  Imposing a Government on Chile:

On September 11, 1973, the United States, under President Richard Nixon, was the main instigator of a military coup which overthrew Chile=s democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, and ushered in a 17-year reign of terror under General Augusto Pinochet.

 

 

 

(1)  Not imposing a Governments on the United States:

To date, there have been no attacks perpetrated on the United States by a government of a Adeveloping@ country.  (Japan=s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was in the Phillippines, a Territory of the United States.  The 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and the 2001 attacks on both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, were carried out by individuals, not governments).

 

 

 

 

(2)   Imposing a Negotiating Partner on Palestine:

In December 2001, Israel made official its policy to eventually destroy the Palestinian Liberation Organization and its President, Yasser Arafat.  At the present time, Israel=s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, speaks openly about removing Arafat, either by assassination or deportation.

 

 

(2)   Not imposing a Negotiating Partner on Israel:

Palestinians are powerless to impose a negotiating partner on Israel.

 

 

 

(3)   Nuclear Deterrence:

A secret Pentagon report made available to Congress on January 8, 2002, expresses the need for the Pentagon to be prepared to use nuclear weapons against at least seven countries, and build smaller nuclear weapons for use in certain battlefield situations.  The countries cited are China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria. 

 

Threats to use nuclear weapons is terrorism and is illegal, unlawful and criminal  B that is, a war crime.  Nuclear deterrence itself is criminal.

 

 

 

(3)   Not using Nuclear Deterrence:

Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, to my knowledge, no other country than the United States has used nuclear deterrence as part of its defense posture.

 

 

 

 

                                                                    Conclusions

 

Poor Nations

In addition to this wholesale murder of the powerless must be added two other factors:

1.                  Sibling rivalry@ B the fighting between the Adeveloping@ nations themselves, paralleling the fighting of children who receive insufficient love from an abusive mother.

 

2.                  The violence within Adeveloping@ nations, originating in their own, still often archaic methods of child rearing.  Thus for instance, there are still 150,000,000 women in the world today who have been genitally mutilated.

 

Wealthy Nations

1.         Wealthy nations are on an infanticidal level in their relationships to powerless Adeveloping@ nations.  They are full of hubris and narcissism.  Their are arrogant, callous, mean and downright criminal in their dealing with the powerless. 

 

Thus, even with the relatively privileged childhood of most people in the Adeveloped@ countries, these children now grown up still show a remarkably low level of empathy for their fellow human beings across boundary lines.  They seem to want to remain Aparents,@ that is, powerful and able to keep privileges from themselves, at all costs.

 

2.                  The examples given are just a few among many of similar magnitude of callousness.  Other examples which could have been included are as follows:

a.                   Genetic engineering in Iowa, United States, has contaminated the original, diverse seeds of corn in the cradle of the vegetable B the Zapoteca Indian mountains, in Oaxaca, Mexico.  This is despite the Mexican government=s prohibition on the planting of genetically engineered corn.

 

b.                  Intellectual property rights are a rape of Adeveloping@ countries= genomes, a common heritage of humankind.  The Neem tree in India as some 83 patents taken on it by  Adeveloped@ countries.

 

c.                   The introduction of nuclear power in space is a threat to all humankind and perhaps the planet earth itself.

 

 

 

 

3.                  The countries the U.S. has invaded in the past 20 years, are now among the poorest in the world.

 

4.                  The authors of the books that I read, mainly political scientists, are angry and appalled at the lack of humanity shown by the powerful today.  They rage against Empire.

 

The United Nations

1.         The United Nations Development Reports fail to convey the anger in the world.  The Reports imply that we are all Astruggling@ to meet the goals of achieving Ahuman development,@ of ending poverty and of controlling major public health problems.  This is hardly the case.

 

2.                  The United Nations= attitude towards war is not one of emergency.  It is one of accepting war as only one factor among the many that interfere with Adevelopment.@  Thus, war Ahits@ people (like lightening) and Aaffects@ them:

AViolent conflict is a key obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.  During 1990-2001, there were 57 major armed conflicts in 45 locations.  Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit the hardest, but no developing region has been unaffected.@

 

3.                  The United Nations inverts the consequences of war and the purpose of war: Thus, instead of destruction being the purpose of war, it becomes a consequence of war:

ABeyond its direct cost in human lives, conflict can undermine economies, destabilize governments, damage infrastructure, disrupt social service delivery and provoke mass movements of people.@

 

4.                  The United Nations does not consider infanticide, thus hiding a major source of death in girls.  Its Reports present no statistics on sex ratios at birth and make no mention that this might be a problem.  In Hadryana, India, the sex ratio at birth is 167 males for every 100 females.  Hence, two-thirds of girls are killed either at or before birth.

 

5.                  The United Nations does not question whether its goals are achievable.  The earth is unable to sustain the over 7,000,000,000 people expected in 2015 at the level of Adevelopment@ of the OECD countries.  The goal is, therefore, unachievable.

 

It is also very questionable whether we would want a world in which all people would act like the wealthy nations are acting today.

 

 

 

 

                                                                    Table Notes

 

(a)       OECD: United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003,  pp. 237-238., 340 and back cover flap.

 

The countries forming the organization for cooperation and development (OECD) are as follows:

(xi)             Twenty-four Ahigh-income@ countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea (Rep. of), Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

 

(xii)           Five countries ranking Ahigh@ in the human development index (HDI).  This is a composite index measuring average achievement in life expectancy at birth, adult literacy rate, gross school enrolment ratio and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita.   The six countries are: Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Slovakia.

 

(xiii)         Turkey which ranks Amedium@ in the human development index (HDI).

 

(b)               These battle deaths do not include the very high number of veterans who came down with the AGulf War Syndrome@ after the hostilities.

 

(c)                ADeveloping Countries:@ United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p.363.     

 

These countries comprise the Arab States, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d)               Purchasing power parity (PPP): A rate of exchange which accounts for price differences   across countries, allowing international comparisons of real output and incomes.  At the PPP US$ rate, PPP US$1 has the same purchasing power in the domestic economy as $1 has in the United States.

 

(e)                ALeast Developed Countries:@  United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p.363.     

 

The countries defined by the United Nations as Aleast developed@ include 49 countries or areas: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Lao (People=s Dem. Rep.), Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa (Western), Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania (U. Rep.), Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen and Zambia.

 

Countries not participating:

Social and Cultural Rights: Belize, Lao (People=s Dem. Rep), Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, South Africa, Turkey and United States.

 

Women: Afghanistan, Sao Tome and Principe, United States.

 

Child: Somalia, United States.

 

 

 

 

                                                                     References

Killing

Armed Conflicts:

 Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 45.

 

Sanctions against Iraq:

Hiro, Dilip, Iraq in the Eye of the Storm (Thunder=s Mouth/Nation Books, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 143.

 

Mahajan, Rahul, Full Spectrum Dominance B U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond (Seven Stories, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 12.

 

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2001 B Making New Technologies work for Human Development (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2001, pp. 238 and 339.

 

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 211.

                                                                             

United Nations Infants and Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Press Release, AIraq Survey shows >Humanitarian Emergency,=@ August 12, 1999; cited by Pellett, Peter, ASanctions, Food, Nutrition, and Health in Iraq,@ in Arnove, Anthony, Ed., Iraq under Siege B The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (South End, Cambridge, MA), 2000, p. 161.

 

The 1991 Gulf War:

Hiro, Dilip, Iraq in the Eye of the Storm (Thunder=s Mouth/Nation Books, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 37- 39. 

In addition to the 141 battle deaths, the United States sustained 125 deaths due to accidents during the pre-war seven-month field training.  Hiro puts the Iraqi military death toll at 57,600-62,600.

 

Woodward, The Commanders (Simon and Schuster, New York., N.Y.), 1991;  cited in Zunes, Stephen, Tinderbox B U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage, Monroe, Maine), 2003, p. 83. 

There is a wide range of estimates regarding the Iraqi death toll. The figures of 85,000 military and 15,000 civilian deaths are those accepted by Zunes as most representative.      

 

 

 

Abandonment B Physical

HIV/AIDS:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 41-42, 252-253 and 260-261.

 

Differential in Infant Mortality:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 212 and 253.

 

Abandonment B Emotional

Health Expenditures:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 250-253,  254-257 and 356.

 

Life Expectancy at Birth:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 237, 250,  240 and 253.

 

The Palestinians:

Kimmerling, Baruch, Politicide B Ariel Sharon=s War against the Palestinians (Verso, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 17 and 25.

 

Reinhart, Tanya, Israel/Palestine B How to end the War of 1948 (Seven Stories, New York, N.Y. 2002), pp. 7-8, 52 and 119.

 

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2001 B Making New Technologies work for Human Development (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2001, pp. 208-212, 237-238, 250-251 and 278- 279.                              

 

Zunes, Stephen, Tinderbox B U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage, Monroe, Maine), 2003, p. 106

 

 

 

 

 

Use of the Child as a Sexual Object

Hiring Women:

Bales, Kevin, Disposable People B New Slavery in the Global Economy (University of California, Berkeley, CA), 1999, p. 69.

 

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 278 and 279.

 

Control of the Child=s Body                                                           

Harming the Gene Pool:

Caldicott, Helen, The New Nuclear Danger B George W. Bush=s Military B Industrial Complex (The New Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, pp. 151-152 and 158-161.

 

Mahajan, Rahul, The New Crusade B America=s War on Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 15.

 

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 208, 211 and 339.

 

Japan:

Mahajan, Rahul, The New Crusade B America=s War on Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 15.          

 

The 1945 dropping of two atomic bombs on civilian populations, one each on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, remains today the single most savage act the world has ever witnessed B perhaps 300,000 people were killed immediately and many more are still dying as a result of radiation. 

 

Bikini, Marshall Islands:

The Columbia Encyclopedia (Columbia University Press, New York., N.Y.), 1975,  ABikini.@

In 1946, the United States removed the inhabitants of Bikini to Rongerik, and then began a series of 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests lasting until 1958.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vieques, Puerto Rico:

Helvarg, David, Blue Frontier B Saving America=s Living Seas (Henry Holt, New York, N.Y.), 2001, pp. 80-81.

 

Gonzalez, Juan, Harvest of Empire -- A History of Latinos in America (Viking, 2000), p. 252.

 

An off-shore island of Puerto Rico, Vieques was used by the Navy from 1940 to 2000 for live-fire exercises, including radioactive shelling.  In 1999 and 2000, the Island=s 9,400 inhabitants staged loud protests and this was followed by a promise from the Navy to discontinue the maneuvers.

 

Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia:

Caldicott, Helen, The New Nuclear Danger B George W. Bush=s Military B Industrial Complex (The New Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 152.

Between 300 and 800 tons of uranium 238 were used during the 1991 Gulf War.              

 

Kosovo, 1999:

Physicians for Social Responsibility, ADepleted Uranium Weapons,@ Issue Brief, July 1999; cited in Caldicott, Helen, The New Nuclear Danger B George W. Bush=s Military B Industrial Complex (The New Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 158.

Thirty-one thousand rounds of uranium ammunition were fired in Operation Allied Force.

 

Bosnia, 1994-1995:

Idem.  Over 10,800 uranium shells were fired, mainly around the city of Sarajevo.

 

                        Afghanistan, October, 2001:

WBAI, New York, ADemocracy Now,@ Newscasts of that period. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Warming:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 222 and 253.

 

Gelbspan, Ross, WBAI, New York, ADemocracy Now,@ 09/23/03.  Gelbspan forthcoming book is entitled, Prescription for Planetary Fever.

According to present trends, global temperature will increase three to ten degrees by the end of this century.  As a point of comparison, the last ice age was five to nine degrees colder than our current climate. 

 

Helvarg, David, Blue Frontier B Saving America=s Living Seas (Henry Holt, New York, N.Y.), 2001, p. 105 -108.

Global temperatures have warmed an average one degree Fahrenheit over the last century, paralleling increased industrial output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.  Climate models now predict a three to eleven degree planetary warming this century.  This will result in shifts in agricultural production, spread of tropical insects and diseases, increases in extreme weather events, more intense coastal storms and hurricanes, erosion of beaches, coral bleaching and rising sea levels B all of which have already begun.

 

Control of the Child=s Sexual Life

The Right to Abortion:

Garbus, Martin, Courting Disaster B The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law (Henry Holt, New York), 2002, pp. 80-84.

 

Gorman, Christopher, AThe >Global Gag Rule,=@ WBAI, New York, AFree Speech Radio News,@ 09/25/03.

The United States= policy of preventing family planning clinics to which it gives international support from even mentioning the possibility of abortion, has been dubbed the AGlobal Gag Rule.@  In its September 2003 Report, Population Action International is highly critical of the policy, pointing out that the ARule,@ along with United States= policy of encouraging abstinence only until marriage, removes from these clinics a major weapon to fight HIV/AIDS.

 

Disdain for Women and Children:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, pp. 331-334.

 

 

 

 

 

Control of the Child=s Mind

Imposing a Government on Chile:

Kornbluh, Peter, AThe Other September 11th B Destabilizing and Overthrowing the Allende Government,@ Presentation, Annual Talking Together Series, Wellesley Public Library, Wellesley, MA, around September 2002.   Peter Kornbluh is Senior Analyst, National Security Archives, Washington, D.C.  His book on the subject is, The Pinochet File.

 

Hitchens, Christopher, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Verso, New York, N.Y.), 2001, pp. 55-76.

 

Imposing a Negotiating Partner on Palestine:

Kimmerling, Baruch, Politicide B Ariel Sharon=s War against the Palestinians (Verso, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 202.

 

Reinhart, Tanya, Israel/Palestine B How to end the War of 1948 (Seven Stories, New York, N.Y. 2002), pp. 129-133.

 

Nuclear Deterrence:

Los Angeles Times, March 2002; cited in Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq, The War on Freedom, B How and Why America was Attacked September 11, 2001 (Tree of Life Publications, Joshua Tree, CA, Media Messenger/ Institute for Policy Research and Development, Brighton, East Sussex, UK), 2002, p. 265.

 

Boyle, Francis, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence B Could the U.S. War on Terrorism go Nuclear? (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2002, pp. 162-173.

This terminology, Aillegal,@ Aunlawful,@ Acriminal@ and Awar crime@ is according to the International Court of Justice (World Court of the United Nations).

 

Conclusions

The violence within Adeveloping@ nations:

deMause, Lloyd, The Emotional Life of Nations (Karnac/Other Press, New York. N.Y.), 2002, pp. 40-41, 239, 276 and 307-312.

Most of the genitally mutilated women living today are in the Islamic world B Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda.   The practice exists also in New Guinea and Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The examples given are just a few among may of similar magnitude of callousness.

Genetic engineering:

Chapella, Ignacio, AAltered Corn Seeds in Oaxaca, Mexico,@ TUC Radio, San Francisco, CA, 09/12/03 and 09/19/03.  Dr. Chapella is Assistant Professor of Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA.  He published his data in Nature.  His findings have since been confirmed by several investigators.

 

Intellectual property rights:

Vandana Shiva has written eloquently about the enclosure of the commons through intellectual property rights.  See particularly the following:

Shiva, Vandana, Biopiracy B The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End), 1997, p. 57.

 

Shiva, Vandana, Protect or Plunder?  Understanding Intellectual Property Rights (Zed Books, New York, N.Y.), 2001.

 

The United Nations

The United Nations= attitude towards war is not one of emergency:

United Nations Human Development Programme, Human Development Report 2003 B Millennium Development Goals, A Compact among Nations to end Human Poverty, (Oxford University Press, New York, N.Y.), 2003, p. 45.

 

The United Nations inverts the consequences of war the purpose of war:

Idem, p. 77.

 

The United Nations does not consider infanticide:

The data on Hadryana are from Kennedy, Miranda, ASex Ratio at Birth in Hadryana, India,@ WBAI, New York, AFree Speech Radio News,@ 09/09/03.

 

 

 

 

 

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