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Crisis of the rich, poor way of the cross Children of Guantanamo

AUTHORS: Jorge MAJFUD

Tradutzioni dae Roger Fornoni

Darwin's theories of evolution after taking a divergent dynamics. Two species may be descended from a common time to time, the species themselves may disappear gradually or abruptly, but never end up with the two species merge into one. There is no mixing is not within the same species. In the long run, a hen and a man are distant relatives, descendants of some reptile, and each one represents a positive response of life in the struggle for survival.

words, diversity is the form in which life grows and adapts to different environments and different conditions. Diversity and life are synonymous to the biosphere. Vital processes tend toward diversity but at the same time are an expression of unity, the biosphere, Gaia, the exuberance of life in permanent struggle to survive in hostile surroundings of its own miracle.

For the same reason, cultural diversity is a requirement for the life of humanity. That is, however, and could be sufficient reason, diversity is not limited to avoiding the boredom of monotony, but is also vital part of our survival as humanity.

Nevertheless, it was us humans are the only species that has replaced the natural and prudent replacement of species with an artificial and threatening destruction, the looting and the contamination of industrial consumerism. Those of us who support a possible but not inevitable "progress of history" based on knowledge and the exercise of equal-liberty, can see that humanity, so often put in danger of extinction by itself, has achieved some successes have allowed to survive and live with their increasing muscle strength. And yet, we did not add anything good to the rest of nature. In many respects, this natural process of trial and error, we have regressed or maybe our mistakes have become exponentially more dangerous.

Consumerism is one of these errors. That insatiable appetite has little or nothing to do with progress towards a possible but unlikely, was not hungry, post-scarcity, rather it has to do with a more primitive era of greed and gluttony. We are not saying that has to do with an animal instinct, because not even the lions monopolize the savanna or practice the extermination routine of their victims, and because even the pigs are sated from time to time.

The culture of consumerism has its limitations in several respects. First, it contradicted the aforementioned condition, overcoming cultural differences, replacing them with its trinkets or creating a universal pseudo diversity where a worker or a mechanic German Japanese can use to two days a Peruvian crafts made in China can enjoy five or days of the most beautiful Venetian blinds imported from Taiwan before they fail to overuse. Second, because it also threatened the ecological balance with its unlimited extractions and its returns in the form of immortal garbage.

Concrete examples we can observe around us. We could say that it is fortunate that a worker could enjoy the amenities that were once reserved only for the upper classes, the unproductive classes, the consumer classes. Nevertheless, this consumption-induced cultural and ideological pressure-converted many times in the final work and an instrument of the economy. This, logically, means that the individual-instrument was converted to half of the economy as an individual-consumer.

In almost all developed countries or in the process of this "model of development," the furniture that invades the markets are designed to last a few years. Or a few months. They are nice, they look good as almost everything in the culture of consumption, but if we look closely they are scratched, missing a screw or be square. Every day more exotic is the concern of my family of carpenters to improve the design of a chair so that it would last a hundred years. Use of new mobile-and-throw not worry us too much because we know that it costs little and that in two or three years going to buy some new ones, which means more interest and in the decoration of our homes and our offices and mainly stimulates the world economy. According to current theory, what we throw away here helps the development industry in some poor country. For this we are good, because we are consumers.

But this furniture, even the cheapest ones, have consumed trees, burned fuel in their long journey from China or Malaysia. The logic of "dispose of it after use," which is the most reasonable for a plastic syringe, a law becomes necessary to stimulate the economy and maintain the perpetual growth of GDP, with its crises and their causes phobias when the fall a recession of two percent. To overcome the crisis must increase the drug. The United States alone, for example, spend millions of dollars so that its residents to consume, to spend, spend millions of dollars to escape the madness of the recession in the world so that it can continue to spin, consuming and discarding.

But this waste as cheap as they are-consumerism is based on the economic goods, use throw-away, which makes it almost impossible for the recycling of durable goods-have pieces of wood, plastic, batteries, steel pipe , screws, glass and even plastic. In the United States all this and more goes into the trash-even in this time called for the wrong reasons "great crisis" - while in poor countries, poor people are looking for that garbage. In the long run, whoever ends up consuming all the garbage is the nature as humanity continues to suspend the changes in their lifestyle in order to emerge from recession and to support economic growth.

But what does "economic growth", what does this two or three per cent that haunt the world, from North to South from East to West?

The world is convinced that it is in a terrible crisis. But the world has always been in crisis. Now the crisis is defined as worldwide because (1) moves forward and hits the economy of the richest, (2) the paradigm of development has simplified its hysteria spread to the rest of the world, undermining its legitimacy. But in the U.S. people are still flooding the shops and restaurants and their cuts never involve hunger, even in a situation of gravity in which millions of workers without jobs. In our peripheral countries a crisis means children begging in the street. In the U.S., it means consumers who consume a little 'less while they await the next government.

To end this "crisis", experts squeeze the brain and the solution is always the same: to increase consumption. Ironically, increasing consumption by lending people their own money through the large private banks that receive the rescue aid government. It is not just to save some banks, but above all, to save an ideology and culture that can not survive if you do not receive frequent injections ad hoc financial incentives, which promote the war industry and control popular participation, and drugs that stimulate, soothe and anesthetize the sake of a common good.

really emerged from the crisis when the world returns to a five percent growth through the stimulation of consumption in rich countries? We will not be preparing the next crisis?, A real-human and ecological crisis-and not an artificial crisis like the one we have now? When we realize that this is not really a crisis but just a warning or an opportunity to change our habits?

Every day is a crisis because every day we choose a path. But there are crises that are a long way of the cross and others that are critical because, for the oppressed to the oppressors that means a double possibility: the confirmation of a system or its annihilation. So far the former has prevailed on the second due to a lack of alternatives. But one must never underestimate the story. Nobody would have ever thought of an alternative to medieval feudalism or slave system. Or almost nobody. The history of the last thousand years shows that the utopians had predicted an exaggerated precision. But, as today, the utopians have always had a bad reputation. Why are the denigration and discredit the dominant forms that each system has always had to keep the number of people with too much imagination.

Originally from: Crisis de los ricos, Via Crucis de los Pobres

Original article published in February 2009

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Jorge Majfud author is associate professor of Tlaxcala, the network of translators for linguistic diversity. This article is reprinted as provided they respect the integrity and author are cited, translators, editors and source.

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William Fisher, People's Weekly World Newspaper - English Translation www.resistenze.org for by the Documentation Centre of Culture and Popular

Omar Khadr


NEW YORK, February 5, 2009 - Legal experts and human rights activists have appealed to the public to remember "child soldiers" of Guantanamo detainees in the prison where they are "the worst of the worst".

Since the symbolic detention center in Cuba opened in 2002, about 22 children were imprisoned there. Contrary to the Protocol on the Rights of the Child United Nations, all except three, were housed with adult prisoners, despite the obligation to promote "the physical and psycho-social rehabilitation and social reintegration of children who are victims of armed conflict. "

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and many other senior officials of the George W. Bush repeatedly has described all the Guantanamo detainees as "the worst of the worst."

human rights advocates insist on two particular cases of child soldiers.

Mohammed el-Gharani, a resident citizen of Chad in Saudi Arabia, was only 14 when he was captured by Pakistani forces in October 2001 during a raid on a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan, 1,200 kilometers away from the battlefield Afghanistan.

lawyers who defend El-Gharani said that the boy was treated with appalling brutality. They say that after being tortured while in Pakistani custody, was sold to the U.S. military who have flown to a prison at Kandahar where he witnessed the boy, one of the soldiers "held my penis with scissors and told me that he would amputee."

The lawyers argue that arrived at Guantanamo, his treatment has not improved. Continually subjected to racist abuse because of the color of his skin, was hanged by the wrists on several occasions, and was also subjected to a regime of "enhanced investigation techniques" [American expression that means torture] to prepare him for interrogation. These included prolonged sleep deprivation, prolonged isolation and difficulties in maintaining long painful positions: that clearly constitute torture.

As a result of these and other forms of abuse, including regular beatings by the guards responsible for suppressing even the most minor infractions, el-Gharani fell into a deep depression and has repeatedly tried to commit suicide.

But last month, just days before the inauguration of President Barack Obama, a federal judge, Richard Leon, ruled that it is claimed that the government had failed to establish the status of enemy combatant and el-Gharani decided that the boy should have been released and repatriated "without delay". Judge Leon said the government had relied primarily on information from by two other prisoners at Guantanamo, whose credibility and reliability were questionable. However, it is unlikely that el-Gharani be released soon because it is not clear whether the government of Chad will accept it.

In the last month, federal judges in Washington, as requested by defense lawyers, reviewed on a case by case basis, the charges against about 200 detainees. The review by civil courts of the territory of the United States, continues through June 2006 issued a ruling of the Supreme Court, which granted to persons suspected of terrorism to challenge their detention before a federal court.

The Bush administration had said that el-Gharani was housed in Afghanistan in a house belonging to al Qaeda, who had participated in the battle of Tora Bora - Osama bin Laden where he fled in late 2001 - and has been rolling for senior al Qaeda. He was also accused of being a member of an al Qaeda cell based in London.

The other "child soldiers" still detained at "Gitmo" is Omar Khadr. He was arrested in Afghanistan at age 15 and his trial was under way when, with one of his first presidential decrees, Obama has suspended for 120 days all the proceedings of the Military Commission, pending an examination of individual cases and has also provided a team of experts from various government agencies to examine the system used by the Military Commission and to suggest possible alternatives for use in prosecutions.

Khadr was born in Toronto and is the only citizen of a western country currently imprisoned in Cuba by U.S. authorities. He was captured after a battle with fire in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan, which lasted four hours, and has spent the last six years at Guantanamo. He is charged with war crimes, supporting terrorism and throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier.

But according to lawyers present at the hearing, the charges against him were unfounded. From U.S. military documents came to light inadvertently revealed that the first reports Khadr did not indicate how the person who had thrown the grenade and that further testimony of witnesses for the government proved "unreliable."

One of the lawyers said: "There was little hope that the impossibility of proving the allegations would put difficulties in the prosecution. A guilty verdict was almost predictable.

Gabor Rona, legal director for the international organization Human Rights First, told our correspondent that the case against Khadr "must be rejected in toto." It noted that Khadr was 15 when he was arrested.

"If the process continues - and no matter in what capacity - will the first example of a child soldier brought to trial in a U.S. court for actions taken in time of war. This would be contrary to the principles of international law, which invite us to protect and rehabilitate, but to punish the child soldiers, "said Rona.

He added:" What he is accused - defense against an attack by U.S. soldiers - is not a crime under the laws of war. Bringing a person prosecuted for actions that do not violate any legal standard when they were made is instead defined as a war crime in international law and is also a violation of the U.S. Constitution. "

The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to intervene if Khadr and refused to seek extradition in Canada, while the process was underway. But Rona told our reporter that Canada and the United States is talking about a possible return to Canada of the young.

"It is not clear whether this will happen, and if so, under what conditions," said Rona. According

reliable surveys, 64 percent of Canadians expressed a favorable opinion on the return of Khadr to Canada, and national and international organizations such as Amnesty International and the dawn of the Canadian Lawyers have appealed to the conservative government to bring Khadr home .

Rona maintained that: "The issue of child soldiers is particularly noted when the sensitivity Western societies are offenses of enrollment of teenagers to fight in civil wars. The outrage curiously subsides when the child is one of ours, 'enrolled' in this case by her father, a known supporter of al Qaeda. Prime Minister Harper, however, seems deaf to the prayers of UNICEF and other defenders of children. "

He added:" Americans witnessed a decade of abuse of their Constitution is an increasingly urgent demand that Bush and his accomplices accountable for illegal actions committed at home and abroad, Canadians should also think Mr. Harper guilty of trampling on the rights of one of his countrymen. "

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