The World Is Becoming An Immense Military

Globalization Has Considerably Accelerated In Recent Years Following The Dizzying Expansion Of Communications And Transport And The Equally Stupefying Transnational Mergers Of Capital. We Must Not Confuse Globalization With "internationalism" Though. We Know That The Human Condition Is Universal, That We Share Similar Passions, Fears, Needs And Dreams, But This Has Nothing To Do With The "rubbing Out" Of National Borders As A Result Of Unrestricted Capital Movements. One Thing Is The Free Movement Of Peoples, The Other Of Money.

The Human Murder By Poverty In Latin America Is Secret: Every Year, Without Making A Sound, Three Hiroshima Bombs Explode Over Communities That Have Become Accustomed To Suffering With Clenched Teeth.

I Can't Sleep. There Is A Woman Stuck Between My Eyelids. I Would Tell Her To Get Out If I Could. But There Is A Woman Stuck In My Throat

Human Rights Pale Beside The Rights Of Machines. In More And More Cities, Especially In The Great Metropolises Of The South, People Have Been Banned. Automobiles Usurp Human Space, Poison The Air, And Frequently Murder The Interlopers Who Invade Their Conquered Territory -and No One Lifts A Finger To Stop Them. Is There A Difference Between Violence That Kills By Car And That Which Kills By Knife Or Bullet?" (p.231)

When A Book Is Alive, Really Alive, You Feel It. You Put It To Your Ear Here, And You Feel It Breathe, Sometimes Laugh, Sometimes Cry, Just Like A Person, A Little Person.