Humanity in Dis-array Due to Corporate Globalization

Having stayed here in New York, USA for two months now, I am so amazed to interact with environmentalists, and social scientists and view on TV the interviews of the world’s number one highly respected, intellectual activist, human rights defender, and author of so many books, Dr. Noam Chomsky, PhD. Unknown to many, it is the analyses of the intellectuals here that the modern-day American Imperialism that controls more than half of the world’s resources through economic and military powers is already on the verge of collapsing. That empire with its stronghold of government policies, the mainstream media and religions brandishing doctrines and dogma in their favor, has already wrought so much havoc on the world, to the environment downgrading the dignity of life and the never-ending spiritual denigration, buried in the whims and capriciousness of the mundane. Soon, humanity will be liberated from collective insanity being perpetuated by the EGO. According to Intellectual activists here, neo-liberal globalization has already caused so much poverty, especially in Third World countries that in some of these poverty-stricken countries, you can read advertisements from the poor who are selling their organs for food to survive. That’s so painful.

The development paradigm that is the reason for being of the regime of one percent has buried humanity deeply in unbridled materialism and consumerism in a world that is now on the precipice of its 6^th extinction which the concerned scientists worldwide have described as, “one minute before midnight.” Don’t you know that the combined wealth of the top eight billionaires here in the US is far greater than the combined assets of some 3.6 billion people on Earth or half of the world’s population? That the total wealth of the 1% is greater than the total assets of the world’s population of 7.2 billion people. It has been mentioned here that 20% of the one percent is called the super-rich and that even US Presidents must bow down to them as they could not win without the support of the super-rich corporations. Former President Barack Obama, for example, won, according to Dr. Chomsky, because of the support of these super-rich corporations, and in return, Pres. Obama lowered their taxes at the expense of struggling Americans.

As declared by Dr. Chomsky, no less than the former Republican President Donald Trump was the voice of the super-rich who are described as “climate change deniers.” The Americans constitute only 5% of the world’s population, yet the US’s carbon emission is about 38% as the environment is never their priority but that of the market-driven and profit-oriented economy. They won’t even lower the use of coal and fossil fuel as this superrich is earning 15 trillion dollars a year or 10 million dollars every minute from out of the use of coal and fossil fuel that is now killing Mother Earth through climate change. The regime of one percent has earned so much out of war and conflict through non-stop manufacturing of armaments especially nuclear bombs that can kill humanity 40 times over. Don’t you know that this regime was the one that supplied two warring factions in the Iraqi war in the nineties as war is part of their money-making? When the ISIS brothers who were scholars then at Harvard University taking PhD degrees knew of this truism, they did not continue their scholarship. The ISIS brothers went back to Iraq to form the ISIS combatants to countervail against the capitalists’ satanic greed, calling the US, “an evil empire”’

The regime of one percent’s latest misdeed is the support to the Israelites to eliminate the Palestinians in Gaza, Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Since the eighties, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians mostly children have already been killed by the Israelites with armed support from the one percent regime, termed as “ethnic cleansing.” Such brutality included the poisoning of the Palestinian water system that killed tens of thousands of Palestinian families. These social scientists conclude that it is because of the support of the regime of one percent that contributed to the brutality of the Israelites, known as the “chosen people of God.” According to the great intellectuals, a NEW CONSCIOUSNESS is now dawning upon all of us to liberate ourselves from the collective insanity perpetuated by the ego that has transformed the homo sapiens as the most flawed of all of God’s creation. The materialistic and consumerist lifestyle that has been promoted is devoid of spirituality which is contrary to the essence of life that is spiritual as human beings are more spirit than body. Debunk the mundane, go to the sublime, that’s the essence of life, go to that transcendental dimension where the Universal Intelligence governs your life.

Indeed, these social scientists contend that we are now living in a time of crises brought about by neo-liberal corporate globalization that is based on the growth-at-all-cost development paradigm that is sacrificing the people and the environment to the altar of greed and profit. It has been said that this development paradigm is like a giant off-balance. So as not to fall, it has to run, and in running, it steps on communities, forests, seas, rivers, agricultural lands, and on people themselves, leaving havoc on its path. The regime of one percent zeroes in on the individual pursuit of wealth, fame, and power for self-aggrandizement, where money is used not to enhance life and the well-being of the people but to make more money., as greed has no limit. Such is not anymore economically viable and ecologically sustainable. That kind of development (which is mal-development), makes a few elites have much too much and the many who are poor much too little. In this country, you call that block capitalism where cartels, conglomerates, oligarchs, and corporate globalization control the economy in cohort with power-that-be. Don’t you know that a decade ago, only 50 families pocketed 70% of the Gross Domestic Product? They continue to hold to power through the support of the mainstream media and religious groups, so immersed in doctrines and dogma, disseminating fallacies of life, in utter disregard to the horrendous social injustices committed against the poor and the oppressed Indigenous People being done through market-driven corporate globalization that has caused so much irreversible environmental disasters.

In the TV interviews of these intellectuals and social activists, they can bravely speak of what is true, what is just, and what is good for the poor and the oppressed as there is no “red-tagging” in the US. These intellectuals are so pleased to be called activists as that means that they are rectifying social wrongs committed by these satanic capitalists. What is so painful to hear is their statement that when the US empire did colonize the Philippines in 1898, some 100,000 Filipinos, were killed, jokingly stating that “some 100,000 Filipinos’ souls were liberated through death”. It is only here that I knew that truism which had been kept from us Filipinos. As a colony then, I’ve learned of that speech of Sen. Larry Heaney who put to rest the debate in the US Senate in 1900 whether the US would leave the Philippines as it was so difficult then to colonize a country that is in the other side of the globe; better colonize the adjacent countries like Mexico or Cuba. But the speech of Sen. Heaney convinced his co-senators not to leave the Philippines, saying that “the forest of the Philippines can supply the timber needs of the world for a century to come and that the country especially Mindanao is oozing with 72 kinds of top-quality minerals.” Thus, until now, we have become a neo-colony, the dumping grounds of finished products and the source of cheap raw materials, following extractive economy. But the Philippines is not just a colony for economic reasons; for the regime of one percent, our country plays a very critical role militarily. With the downfall of the Soviet Union as a superpower, the US Empire is the most powerful in the world.  But a new competitor empire is now rising, that is China, not to mention North Korea equipped with nuclear weapons. How can these competitors be fought?  By making the Philippines the empire’s defense frontline with nuclear armaments. Thus, any battle that will occur between them means our demise as the Philippines will first be the target. Such is the statement of the intellectuals here. For the US Imperialism to make our country as first line of defense is a mockery of our sovereignty as an independent nation. We Filipinos are not disposable wastes, thus, we must stand up to oust nuclear armaments in our country because millions of Filipinos will die when war erupts. But the problem is when we stand up against US Imperialism, we will be tagged as NPAs. How then can we debunk corporate globalization and US Imperialism that has treated us Filipinos as disposable wastes? TAO PO TAYO HINDI BASURA! Let us now stand for our human rights as categorically stated in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights especially the right to life and human dignity.

When asked if we Filipinos are also advocating for social transformation against neo-liberal corporate globalization, I told them that I am from Mindanao, the land of the brave and the free. We are also freedom-loving people and I told them that when the Filipino people are awakened, then social change can finally be had. But the Filipinos are still passive and apathetic, buried in gospels of the fallacies of life. GUMISING NA PO TAYO!