Global Equity
The current distribution of wealth, power, and control on an international scale is inimical to the development of human beings. Four-fifths of the world’s people lack the minimal resources for humane realization. The United States with its 733 military bases around the world and its successful efforts to dominate and control other peoples through investment, trade, financial, and monetary policies is the biggest obstacle to world peace and humane development. In the United States we have the major responsibility of transforming our government into one which is cooperative, peaceful, and democratic, not monopolistic, militaristic, and oligarchic in its international relations. Until there is an international body that is truly representative of the world’s people, until fair trade replaces free trade or we have a truly level playing field, until international monetary institutions promote local human development instead of an infrastructure for international profit-taking, until the right of self-determination is respected and local people have local control over their economies and their political structures, we will not have the world peace and prosperity we all wish for, deeply inside.