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Globalization or Globalbombization: Either Way, Muslims Die
By Mohamed Khodr
21/11/2001
For decades there was a North-South dialogue on economic issues held in Paris. The purpose of the dialogue was to bring more economic equity to the impoverished southern hemisphere: the former colonies of the northern hemisphere. Tragically, such dialogue ended in utter failure. The process of the North redeeming itself for centuries of brutal "colonization" failed due to the arrogance and selfish greed of the have's.
In the endless clever manipulation and re-invention of the "cliches du jour" to distract the world from the reality of death, disease, and despair, the "have's" re-invented themselves by repackaging "Colonization" and spinning it into a new "cliche" - Globalization.
Although no one in the world can agree on its definition - akin to terrorism - books have been written on the subject, international conferences and hotly contested debates held, speeches delivered espousing it as the "yellow brick road" to mainframe happiness, but much like the "cliches" of Cyberspace, the Information Superhighway, and the Digital Divide, the word Globalization has been chiseled into our Broca's area of the brain responsible for speech.
We simple-minded consumers of words and products constantly use it in our conversations for pomposity's sake without a clue of it real meaning. However, some of the parameters of the terms have been defined, such as linking the world via the World Wide Web (sounds eerily like a spider web) that will reform the world into an interconnected global village. Yet, sadly, in my own small city with modem-ed homes, neighbors hardly speak to each other, or know anything about each other, much less becoming interconnected with tribes of Sub-Saharan Africa. But, according to Globalization, despite our isolated, alienated, and depressed existence in a world of global warming and cold relationships, we shall find happiness in digitized fibers.
Thus, in its simplest terms, Globalization will be a rehash of the old "Colonization" of the impoverished South, except this time without the armies, proxy governments, and artificial land boundaries. In effect, Globalization is a cheap artificially intelligent form of occupation. The have's still get to sell their products to the South, will still hire cheap labor without worrying about labor or health laws, will still get to excavate the South for minerals, oil, and resources by satellite imaging directing corporate armies to appropriate lands without the knowledge of the natives. If by some misfortune someone in the south decides to stand up to this bloodless globalized occupation, well then, the have's do have an alternative plan to deal with these ungrateful uncivilized beasts, it's called "globalbombization".
A stark example of Globalbombization was recently defined by that Have's Dynamic Duo: Bush and Blair. For Blair, it was a simple humanitarian gesture of "reordering the world" to fit the interests of the have's. For the more aggressive Texan, it's simply "you're either with us or against us." Given that the Tali-banned leaders of Afghanistan refused to surrender bin Laden (another "B"), both have's decided it was time to "B"omb Afghanistan into the stone, or some other prior, age. And now that this Globalbombization has succeeded in the southern hemisphere, both men are eager to extend the practice to other lands, such as Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and Indonesia. Given that Afghanistan and these others are Muslim nations, perhaps the term should be changed to "Globalbombmuslimization"
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