First published on November 9, 2016

They hold summits, conferences, and general meetings with themes suggesting a course to establish world peace, eradicate poverty, and ensure stability. But look around you, that conversation has not begun yet.  

Weapons manufacturing is a commercial venture. For this multi-billion industry to survive, they need demand to sustain and increase supply. Guns are not like boxes of juice with expiration dates. All they need is a good clean-up and oiling, then they will go back to coughing bullets, and millions of these nonperishable tools of destruction are produced and deployed year in, year out. 

World superpowers need instability and chaos in the resource-rich nations to acquire them cheaply or even for free. They infiltrate relatively stable Nations and align with corrupt and greedy officials, preaching the gospel of liberating citizens through their media. These interventions always go wrong, turning stable nations into war zones, killing, displacing, and impoverishing millions of civilians who had no say in the ‘liberation agreement.’

World bodies in their current state rely on chaos and destruction to stay relevant. War and disaster are avenues for them, their superiors, and NGO partners to make billions through donations, support, and relief programs. There have been reports on these activities, but the tune never changed.  

President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, in an interview with Aljazeera recently, said the reason they do not talk about most of the things they see in the prisons and detention centers in war zones is confidentiality. It means the organization has confidentiality agreements with offenders to conceal the very crime they are supposed to guard against – to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. 

He added that if keeping quiet is the only way to keep the communication channels open, then that is what they will do. So if the Red Cross can not undertake the number one duty it is tasked to do, your issue is kept under wraps to protect its share in the war. 

Our governments are either made up of corrupt officials, clueless or powerless leaders who have sold themselves and their country cheaply to multinational corporations and Western powers. Even the very few with a clean conscience and good intent can not effect the needed change because they are either hampered by the rigged system or can not get a clear view of our problems after being blinded in one eye by decades of mental slavery, religious, and cultural imperialism. 

The media, television should be a light in the box. But they would rather use it as a weapon of mass distraction. Owned by benefactors of mayhem, they have primed their agendas and solicited support for their bloody courses across the world. A media that will focus on the need for ‘liberation’ to justify the war crimes committed by their home country. Ignoring the abuses and plights of the citizens when the ‘liberation’ fails, and they always do.  

We can’t begin the conversation of achieving world peace, poverty eradication, and global citizenship unless we find a way to restrict and regulate arms manufacturing and dealings.

Until the world superpowers take out greed and self-interest-seeking agendas from their foreign policies and conduct foreign politics in honesty, peace will remain a fleeting illusion.  

The world will not know peace until the world bodies turn their right side to issues and crises. Rid their operations of corruption and missions geared towards enriching individuals and a few privileged families. 

Governments of underdeveloped and developing countries must give meaning and respect to their sovereignty by not accepting everything forced on them by those with a higher power. They must know that they owe it a duty to deliver their citizens from poverty and always act in their interest.

We can not afford to keep mute on these issues. We must take a keen interest in happenings around the world, open our third eye and dig beyond what the media feeds us. We must also call on our governments to do the right thing because “when the rain falls, it won’t fall on just one man’s house.” None of us, regardless of the strength of our economy and level of civilization, will be safe from the fallouts of these issues. The Fulani crisis, Migrant crisis, Civil wars, and Terrorism is just the first wave. 

Mars and giant space habitats are not a solution, but looking at the Sahara as Mars will be a starting point. A world peace conversation can start when the people understand that the enemy is not the one with a different religious or political opinion but rather our thoughts. Change only comes by freeing our minds and accepting and tolerating diversity.

I heard on television that the earth knows no boundaries, and whatever you throw up goes around it. Let’s infect the world with love for peace to reign.