The dream of peace will always remain an illusion, until the inequalities that exist in the world today, particularly how it is organized, are eliminated.

That we as people will continuously seek the stable state that peace finds, is almost guaranteed, as all systems gravitate towards the stability of equilibrium. But is equilibrium not defined as a state of even balance or equality? So how can we expect to have peace, without its prerequisite of equality?

How can we expect peace, when we define people as black, brown, and white, definitions that inform the inequality with which we value their lives? How can we expect peace, when we define the world in terms of underdeveloped and developed, first and third? How can we expect peace when we define members of a society as upper, middle, and working classes? Divisions created inequality in the distribution of the means of acquiring the resources, some of which life depends on – money? How can we expect peace from the inequality of about 20% of the human population using about 80% of the earth’s resources, which are more evenly spread than this 80-20 usage? Is it therefore any surprise that we have a desire within the 80% to move where to the areas where the 20% live?

Should there be any surprise that peace eludes us, when the system we have to achieve and maintain it, the United Nations, has the inequality of having only 15 of its over 200 members making the laws that govern all, in its Security Council chamber? Should it come as any surprise that given the survival-based thinking of self-interest that dominates most actions and mindsets of the member countries, we end up with laws created for the benefit of its makers? Does logic not inform us that giving permanency to 5 members, China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, in this already exclusive group, each armed with the blunt dictatorial weapon of the veto vote, will create a master exclusive club?

Why should we, therefore, be surprised at the laws produced by this chamber, such as the aim to disarm countries, selected by the countries that want to carry out the disarmament, though the most deadly weapons of mass destruction are believed to be in the possession of those wanting to disarm? Is it any surprise that the governments of some members of this club, France, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, can begin a war, if we may call it that, through an organization, NATO, against a country, Serbia, in 1999, for which they did not receive a mandate from the Security Council, which is supposed to authorize such events, regardless of the control they exert, on the non-permanent members of the chamber, through their bribes cajoles and threats? A war that even under the laws they make was illegal. Is it not laughable that following that conflict, they can proceed, using the same Security Council they ignored, to commence the slaughter of civilians and the infrastructure that supports their lives in that country, to create a war crimes tribunal? How objective can such a tribunal be, even if it was allowed to investigate the crimes committed by those who set it up, which it has not been mandated to do, to the best of my knowledge, the very same governments that began the conflict? Is it any surprise that we do not have peace, when the long catalog of crimes, committed by the governments of the members of the exclusive permanent Security Council membership, remains untried and is quietly removed from the pages of the history books that are written by their consent?

Should it come as a surprise that the impunity these powerful countries enjoy, supported by their position to make laws, has now allowed the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom to wage an illegal invasion on the country of Iraq, which has not threatened any one of their countries, based on the acclaimed frightening thinking of preventative intervention? Is it possible that thinking, which started with the looting of the cultural heritage of the place referred to, as the cradle of civilization, with its promise of an extension of the looting to the desired resource of oil, will extend to the other civilizations, whose resources are not in the direct control of these masters of the universe?

How can we dream of peace with these inequalities? I believe we can, but for us to retain the dream, we have to awaken those that have been induced into a coma, by the mouthpieces of the powerful (known as the mass media), from it. A media whose job description, as defined by the powerful masters that own it, is the retention of inequalities, through deceit. For until these inequalities are transformed into equality, peace will remain in the realm of dreams. A transformation that would alter the exclusivity of the Security Council, into an inclusivity calling on the participation of all, in laws that all will be subject to. A transformation of the pervasive racism, that insults the dignity of people, by calling them the underdeveloped and third world, and in so doing excludes them from the law-making process. For how can people from underdeveloped worlds make laws that would affect those in developed worlds? All this whilst the resources from the so-called underdeveloped worlds are pillaged now overtly through doctrines such as preventative intervention. How ironic it is that those who call themselves developed, resort to violence that is totally unprovoked. With the danger, from the threat in the call “you are either with us or against us”, a threat I believe is defined as terrorism.

In this journey of transformation, I believe the first step would be to account for the past. One way to begin would be to lend our voices to those that have already started the whispers of bringing accountability so that the whispers transform from whimpers to wails. The accountability, in front of a tribunal, whose objectivity cannot be questioned, of Messers Bush, and Blair, as they are the heads of the governments of countries who have carried out the illegal act of invading a sovereign country, which had not threatened their countries in any way. They and all their accomplices must account for carrying out the actions they carried out. We must shout and realize this transformation, from inequality to equality, without which we will only have the dream of peace, without sleep.