War on terrorism isn't about hunting down the man behind the attacks of September the 11th but a pretext for the richer nations to further their dominance over the world affairs and its about maintaining the divisions that underpin globalisation.
In reality 70% of the worlds market is controlled by the G8. International trade is worth $11.5bn a day. Only 0.4% of this is shared between the poorest countries. However, due to rules about tariff barriers and subsidies these poor countries lose $1.3bn a day in trade. And their loss isn't only economical. Every year, due to war and its consequences 13 million children die, 12 million of them under the age of 5.
Despite the fact that the World Bank admits that the poorest countries are worse off under its control than 10 years ago. The number of poor people has increased and people die younger.
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has become the world's government and solely an orgarnisation run by the rich for the rich. Of its 142 members, only 21 of its governments (those with money) have a real say in any of its decisions.
Last November the WTO held a reunion in Quatar. In it they got the rights, or better still the power, to intervene in the economies of poor countries, to demand privatisation and the destruction of public services. They got the right to subsidize exports of meat, grains and sugar, and the right to dump them in poor countries at artificially low prices destroying the livelyhood of millions. Because of this suicide has become an epidemic amongst poor farmers.
Historian and Christian Aid's head of policy Mark Curtis attended the WTO conference where the delegates of poor countries were threatened with the removal of their few precious goods. He said the issue of multinationals as a cause of poverty wasn't even on the agenda. This would be similar to a conference on malaria were the mosquito wasn't mentioned.