The war on drugs has warped more minds than drugs themselves. The unequal organization of the world, which beggars the human condition, is part of eternity, and injustice is a fact of life we have no choice but to accept. Although as many economic statistics can be brandished to support globalization as to condemn it, Galeano's dire analysis of specific large problems is still scarily persuasive. But the United States assumes no responsibility for the environmental disasters wrought by all that consumption. Of course, this is a truism that remains too subtle for the American masses, like the notion that wrecking nature is not just an accidental side effect of these industries but central to their interdependent existences.
China figures on the list as well, a few places back.
In other words, world peace lies in the hands of the five powers that profit most from the big business of war. Police death squads in Brazil and Argentina, for instance, gun down homeless children by the hundreds each year. To turn infamies into feats, the memory of the North is divorced from the memory of the South, accumulation is detached from despoliation, opulence has nothing to do with plunder. Broken memory leads us to believe that wealth is innocent of poverty. Wealth and poverty emerge from eternity and toward eternity they march, and that's the way things are because God or custom prefers it that way.