Weapons, weapons, weapons. Again, security instead of peace

Again security is prevailing -the immense business of security- on peace.  Again the war vultures are winners.  There was no money to reduce the huge social gaps, helping endogenous development and avoid these desperate migrations…. and now, suddenly, there is a lot of money for war.

A war impact with Iran was already attempted, after the shameful and intentional invasion of Iraq, based on simulation and lies. But Obama’s posture avoided it.

Then when Israel bombed schools and hospitals, NATO, as does in these cases, looked away.

 During Syrian war it was warned that some insurgents were not "civil society" but jihadist fighters and Al-Qaeda fanatics.

By the way, it has been said and repeated that jihadists received subsidies from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Is this true? Tell us, is it true? Because if it were, the only responsible and acceptable reaction would be immediately stop trading with these countries, denounce them ... and Barça and other beneficiaries should remove the names of these countries from their shirts...

Is it true, might be true the "axis" Saudi Arabia-Qatar-Israel-US Republican Party? Tell us no, prove that it is not true! We sincerely hope that the answer is no.

But if, once again,  rockets and bombers’ manufacturing  are again put into operation while thousands of human beings are still starving and helpless every day, while many others are forced to leave their homes to avoid extreme poverty ... then "We, the peoples ..." would severely ask an explanation to those who govern. To those who have marginalized the United Nations; to those who have imposed the plutocratic groups G6, G8 ...; to those who changed the democratic principles by markets; to those who are rubbing their hands now announcing ("El País", September 6, 2014) that "The 28 allies (NATO) agree to spend more on defense due to new challenges."

After a failed coup d’état in Ukraine, the European Union is mobilized ... What the "quartet" has made? What the ineffable Mr. Blair has made during the tragic attacks on Palestine?

The force on reason, the bullets over the words have always prevailed in a world historically yielded to absolute male power.

But this took place when humans were silent, fearful, obedient, submissive. Now they are not anymore.

Willing or unwilling to recognize the "clinging" to inertia and their privileges, the time of their dominance, their shadowed and unexplained actions, of unlimited influence of the intelligence services... is coming to an end.

Of course we must urgently ensure that fanatics do not continue committing atrocities! but ensuring, at the sight of military material already available, that these actions are not an excuse for another intolerable growth of arms production.

Citizen power, in a short period of time, will imply that peace prevails and that the dragons of war will leave the scene that have heretofore occupied.

Citizen power will refound a democratic multilateralism, a United Nations for the new era.

Citizen power, the word. Citizen power to the historic transition "from force  to word”.

No more weapons!

That’s what citizens are demanding: while experiencing this extremely serious economic crisis in Spain and in Europe with ever-growing concern, we are astounded to see that the European Union is incapable of assuming autonomy in the area of security. We continue to depend on NATO and to pay its immense bills. Currently, when there’s no money for healthcare, education or science, we are paying almost 2 billion euros for “arms debts” of military material acquired years ago. Former Defense Minister Carme Chacón was courageous enough to admit that “We bought material that we didn’t need with money we didn’t have”. Why aren’t citizens informed about when, for how much and who ordered these massive purchases? Why the continuous lack of transparency with respect to matters so essential for the radical changes that this present systemic crisis requires?

And as if that weren’t enough, it now appears that the European manufacturers of bombers, rockets, etc. want to unite to compete with the United States. “European investors and governments are wary of a giant aerospace merger”, according to a New York Times article published on September 14, while the previous day “El País” had announced that EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) and BAE Systems (UK) are negotiating to create that colossal entity. Since Lockheed Martin and Boeing decided to join forces in the US, now Europe wants to do the same with an initial capital outlay of 49,000 million dollars.

I never tire of repeating that the time has come to radically oppose investing 4 billion dollars daily in weapons and military spending while over 60,000 people die of hunger and millions live in extreme poverty.

The time has come to invest in other things and to once and for all cease this grim preparation for war (“If you want peace, prepare for war”), which results in the majority of people having to survive amid severe hardships, while at the same time affecting the earth’s habitability.

It’s right to worry about the safety of civil aviation… but warplanes (thank goodness President Obama has suspended the production of F-35s that costs over 300,000 million dollars) and especially drones, should be strictly regulated.

I would likewise seriously recommend not being so concerned about traveling to Mars or to the moon. Let’s worry about our planet, let’s travel the earth so that we may finally realize that the only thing that’s important is each human life, that mystery and perhaps miracle, capable of creating, capable of inventing a different future, a new dawn.