Alternate Vision

"The daily apocalypse of the excluded is what we see when we travel deep in the heart of Africa, China, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America. But what most people don't see is that they key cause of hunger is war. Superposing hunger during the 1990s-because of drought or floods-with the geography of war, the result is that hunger is less due to climate than to politics. Examples abound - in Somalia, Angola, Mozambique, plus the undisguised ethnic cleansing in Liberia, Ethiopia and in Darfur, not to mention the 4 million Afghan refugees to Pakistan and Iran who fled the Taliban during the 1990s. That is hunger as a political weapon.

The privatization of war and its asymmetrical trans-State mutations will only increase the influence of hunger as a political weapon." Pepe Escobar

The privatization of war means that it is profitable to go to war, a liquid war that destroys singular cultures and most anything that resists globalization, as new orders emerge and older ones dissolve. This is a war between the elite minority and the excluded majority, an undeclared global war, or as the anti-neoliberals might call it - the fourth world war.

There is an urgent need for social, equitable and ecological NGOs pioneered by a globally connected civil society. It is our greatest hope.