Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007.
We really are a primitive society. We settle our most serious disputes by killing and warfare; we let children starve in front of us and do very little about it (while now spending one million dollars a minute worldwide on the military); and we are destroying our home in the universe, the environment upon which we depend for our existence in the material realm. Only a society in the early stages of its development would do such things.
So how do we move on? By changing our beliefs from one which says that we are separate from one another to one which says we are all one, from one which says that there is not enough to one which says that we live in a world of abundance. Only then will our behaviours change and, in the process, we will stop assassinating those who tell this truth.
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