{"id":363851,"date":"2018-06-03T02:41:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T01:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T02:41:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T01:41:43","slug":"peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace is a Clich\u00e9: When the West cannot Control the World Unopposed it Means War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to my friend, a philosopher, John Cobb, Jr.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The West likes to think of itself as a truly \u201cpeace-loving part of the world\u201d. But is it? You hear it everywhere, from Europe to North America, then to Australia, and back to Europe: \u201cPeace, peace, peace!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It has become a clich\u00e9, a catchphrase, a recipe to get funding and sympathy and support. You say peace and you really cannot go wrong. It means that you are a compassionate and reasonable human being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/06\/peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war\/after-adressing-east-african-left-wing-opposition-at-venezuelan-embassy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80675\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/After-adressing-East-African-left-wing-opposition-at-Venezuelan-embassy-e1527986336486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a> After addressing East African left wing opposition at Venezuelan embassy<\/p>\n<p>Every year, there are \u201c<em>peace conferences<\/em>\u201d taking place everywhere where peace is worshipped, and even demanded. I recently attended one, as a keynote speaker, on the west coast of Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>If a heavy-duty war correspondent like myself attends them, he or she gets shocked. What is usually discussed are superficial, feel-good topics.<\/p>\n<p>At best, \u2018how bad capitalism is\u2019, and how \u2018everything is about oil\u2019. Nothing about the genocidal culture of the West. Nothing about continuous, centuries-long plunders and benefits that virtually all Westerners have been getting from it.<\/p>\n<p>At worst, it is all about how bad the world is \u2013\u00a0<em>\u201call people are the same\u201d<\/em>\u00a0clich\u00e9. And, also, there are increasingly, bizarre, uninformed outbursts against China and Russia which are often labeled by Western neo-cons as \u201c<em>threat<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>rival powers<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of these gatherings agree \u201c<em>Peace is Good<\/em>\u201d, and \u201c<em>War is Bad<\/em>\u201d. This is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/06\/peace-is-a-cliche-when-the-west-cannot-control-the-world-unopposed-it-means-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dedicated to my friend, a philosopher, John Cobb, Jr. The West likes to think of itself as a truly \u201cpeace-loving part of the world\u201d. But is it? You hear it everywhere, from Europe to North America, then to Australia, and back to Europe: \u201cPeace, peace, peace!\u201d It has become a clich\u00e9, a catchphrase, a recipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}