NORTH  AMERICAN  HYPOCRISY (AMERICAN PANDORA)

      - While words like peace are widely and loudly proclaimed, funds and weapons of all kinds are supplied by the US administration everywhere throughout the world encouraging and maintaining hundreds of wars uninterruptedly for unknown or bastard interests (Catherine Lutz in Our Legacy of War (2001): although invisible to most Americans, the US has been in a permanent state of war since the 1940s, but abroad. From September 11, 2001, war has finally come home;  Barbara Nimri Aziz, Gravesites –Environmental Ruin in Iraq (1997): after 40 days of continuous bombing… diseases in Iraq have sharply increased, among them abnormal births (earless, genitalsless, eyeless…), leukemia, typhoid and malta fever, abortions and breast cancer in women under thirty);

      - while equality is pretended to be highly valued, 50% of the North American wealth is owned by 1% of the population;

      - while funds are said to be given to help peace, they are used to finance wars. Thus, regarding Colombia narcotraffic and guerrillas, drug production has been doubled (protected by paramilitary forces) and farmers’ legal harvests are destroyed in order to push them out of the guerrilla’s area;

      - while full employment is proclaimed as priority aim, industrial plants and facilities are exported, together with their jobs, to less developed countries where labor costs are cheaper, and there free market policies are imposed despite of lethal short-term consequences;

     - while democracy requires respect to minorities, any opposition may be smashed out just calling them terrorists, be they Middle East Kurdish or Palestinians, European kosovares, Russian chechens, African watutsis, Chinese Uighurs or Chiapas Zapatistas, under new terms such as “coercive harmony”, suggested by Laura Nader. The US semantic “war on terrorism” might also be used to repress indigenous people and ethnic and religious minorities by other nation-states. Terrorists are defined as those who are “against us”. The difference between terrorists and fighters for their freedom will depend on the opinion of the owners of newspapers;

      - while protection of minorities are used to justify the invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan, the real motivation -oil control- is hidden to the public;

      - while human rights are seen as the democracy fundamental pillar, thousands of people living in the US and millions abroad are subjected to unlawful surveillance, prisons and tortures under the cover of a “war on terror’ unilaterally declared in utter disregard of international law;

     - while foreign countries are compelled to disarmament, peaceful agreements on international conflicts or to avoid pollution in the atmosphere, US government develops nuclear weapons and rejects since the International Criminal Court to the Kyoto Agreements;

     - while in democracy Congressmen should be representative of the people and their changing opinions, politicians do practice “guerrymandering” retaining by any means their seats in the Congress, 90% in 1994, 94% in 1996, 98% in 1998 (in 2002 only 8 representatives lost their reelections), the winning candidates receiving more than 70% of the votes (versus the 50/50 belonging to the main parties in the general elections), something that members of the old Supreme Soviet would really envy;

     - while democracy heavily relies on freedom of speech, “war on terror” seems to allow some stenchish censorship that is spreading from books and TV to academic field, see R. J. González, Ignorance is not Bliss (2002) or his Lynne Cheney –Joe Liberman Groupe’s Black List (2001).

            The American government’s response to "terrorism" since September 11, 2001 has been to use the term “war on terror” as a carte blanche against those opposite to them, real or imaginary enemies (“you are with us or against us”). By doing so, they replace the former “anti-communism” as a weapon to combat any action or ideology they dislike, ultimately depriving the supposed “terrorists” from their rights and international protection, since they are the Evil of modern age.
            Defining the contents of the term “terrorism” is difficult as much as it is inconvenient to politicians, who could otherwise not be able to use it in the most despotic way. This has led to the UN’s support for national “wars on terror”ism without knowing well, neither themselves nor anyone else, what on the earth is meant by that term, terrorism.
            "To be uncommitted is not to be neutral, but to be committed –consciously or not- to the status quo”, stays C.Wright Mills. Wade Davis in We Need a Global Declaration of Interdependence (2002) plainly says:

(North)Americans have always looked inward. The actual US president had never traveled abroad. 25% of the Congressmen don’t even hold passports. The US with less than 5% of the world’s population produces more than 20% of the world economic output. 1.3 billion people get by on less than $ 1 a day. The majority of the world population has never had a phone call. Disengagement with the rest of the world is a cultural myopia. Al Qaeda is not an isolated phenomenon but a manifestation of a deeper and broader conflict between countries who have and others who have not. We need a global declaration of interdependence.

We must denounce the Northamerican hypocrisy in its foreign policy
 

       (Divorce of words from facts, of principles from actions, that is: hypocrisy, is the denounce disclosed by the book Anthropologists in the Public Sphere, by Roberto J. González, 2004)
 

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