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America First,
COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Humanity
By Mahboob A.
Khawaja, PhD.
Has
civilization taught us to be more friendly
towards one another? Asked Bertrand Russell, the
British philosopher and intellectual and
explains further: …Within the herd we are more
friendly to each other than are many species of
animals, but in our attitude towards those
outside the herd, in spite of all that has been
done by moralists and religious teachers, our
emotions are as ferocious as those of any
animal, and our intelligence enables us to give
them a scope which is denied to ev en the most
savage beast. It may be hoped, though not very
confidently, that the more humane attitude will
in time come to prevail, but so far the omens
are not very propitious. (Bertrand A. Russell,
Ideas that Have Helped Mankind.)
“Pandemic” or
Tormenting Fear of The Global Unknown
April 10, 2020
"Information
Clearing House"
-The 21st century is an age of globalization. Crisis in
one part of the world affect all the people of the
Earth. We, the humanity live in co-existence with the
Nature of Things within the Universe. If we tend to be
blind to basic human requisites of human rights, human
safety and care, social justice and peace, we tend to
challenge and deny the cosmic harmony and justice in
which we exist as mankind.
The COVID-19
pandemic crisis is a strand that can be found in the
interwoven people’s thought and politics of the 21st
century knowledge-based informed governance that echoes
concerns and priorities that humanitarian imperatives
are scarified for political expediency. The common
sentiment of human solidarity is increasing over the
inept nationalistic politics of the few like President
Trump- “America First.” Politicians cannot resolve an
exceptionally complex medical problem. When a global
paradigm of this nature and unpredictable scope hits the
mankind, one cannot think to focus on national interest
and political campaigns to get re-elected. We are
witnessing the severity of this COVID-19 impact across
the globe and how millions and millions reject the
politically maneuvered ideological divisions, hatred and
fear and opt for understanding, collaboration and human
solidarity to fight the virus with ingenuity, compassion
and global unity. It is impeccable for the thinking
people of the globe to rise up to the challenge and
demonstrate how best We, the People are
connected together as One Humanity to
encounter this invisible enemy of all without borders
and nationalities. For several decades, the political
elite of the global systematic governance remained
pre-occupied with warfare and insanity of victimizing
good parts of the humanity in the Middle East, Asia
South America and many parts of Africa.
Should the
UN-WHO be Re-Organized for the Good of Global Community?
Like the UNO-
Security Council, the global humanity is worried to see
its failure to resolve man-made conflicts throughout the
world. It is a primary concern for the security and
safety of the global communities but the UN-Security
Council is incapable to address such painful problems.
The mankind looks for workable solutions. In an
objective analysis, one could repudiate the insane
intellectualism of so many policy makers of the war
industries overwhelmingly occupied to exterminate the
humanity for no other reason except to keep the war
economies running and productive. They make money by
selling weapons, not safeguarding the people. Could the
COVID-19 virus out of the nowhere make us rethink what
went wrong with our thinking and strategic priorities to
protect the humanity? How come human health and safety
were not the priority items of the political elite’s
agenda for the present and the future? Was it a planned
slaughter of the advanced human civilizations for
political change befitting to the agenda of the few?
We, the People need to evaluate some of the contemporary
global political policies and practices in a rational
manner without prejudice and dogmatic judgments. It is
not a blame game but a search for truth and
accountability throughout the conscientious world.
Did the
official elite ignore the alarming signs of a
forthcoming catastrophic disease to affect all the
mankind? It demonstrates small wisdom but claims of
great knowledge that hold the official portfolios of
political responsibility. The health care and safety of
the people should have been the top most priority not
the modeling of statistical data for deaths and
sufferings of the masses. Modeling of the present crisis
is based on information (data) to ponder at various
perspectives and end-games for finding the remedy, it
does not fulfill the public curiosity for a workable
solution except to buy more time for rethinking and
re-evaluation for the end purpose. Did the WHO failed in
its mission to inform the global mankind of a disastrous
sickness? The WHO had the information of the COVID -19
deadly viruses in December 2019, and it relied on
issuing bulletins of concerns and warnings but not
classifying it as an epidemic or pandemic. Were the
elite of the WHO living in a different conflicting time
zone to have ignored such a vital preemptive and
critical information for the rest of the world?
“Can We Trust the WHO?” Outlines
F. William Engdahl
(Global Research, 4/03/2020), lecturer at Princeton
University and a
Research
Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization:
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Despite the huge 2009-10 conflict-of-interest
scandals linking Big Pharma to WHO, today
the WHO under Tedros has done little to
clean out corruption and conflicts of interest.
The current WHO Scientific Advisory
Group of Experts (SAGE) is riddled with members
who receive “financially significant” funds from
either major vaccine makers, or the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation (BGMF) or Wellcome
Trust. In the latest posting by WHO of the 15
scientific members of SAGE, no fewer than 8 had
declared interest, by law, of potential
conflicts. In almost every case the significant
financial funder of these 8 SAGE members
included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Merck & Co. (MSD), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (a
Gates-funded vaccine group), BMGF Global Health
Scientific Advisory Committee, Pfizer, Novovax,
GSK, Novartis, Gilead, and other leading pharma
vaccine players.
So much for independent scientific objectivity
at WHO.
To the UN-WHO,
it is imperative to be seen as an organization adhering
to the facts of human life and to pool the global
medical resources and provide prompt assistance and
guidance to all the suffering humanity without any
reservations.
How to
Imagine “Medicine Men” for the Good of Humanity?
Ignorance and
complacency should have no place when it comes to human
health, safety and sustainable future-making. The
medical experts acknowledge of a learning attitude from
an ever evolving disease. It knows no perfect
explanation or cure to remedy the alarming problem.
Strange as is, Husain Abdullah Bu Ali Sina –
Ibne–Sina (Avicenna – “Canon of
Medicine” and “Book of Healing”), a 10th
century Islamic scholar, and Zakria Al-Razi (Russ), a 9th
century scientist did treat plague and other diseases
successfully. Time and opportunity call for a
comprehensive approach to comprehend the consequential
sickness and workout a remedial treatment inclusive of
the physical and spiritual factors. Ibna-Sina (Avicenna)
narrates – ‘whenever a critical problem confronted me, I
prayed to God and found the cure.’ We, the humankind are
composed of both the physical and spiritual factors.
There is no perfection in finding out a workable cure
without analytical argument and contradiction. Some
researchers funded by corporate world are focusing on
the computerized analytical vices and weaknesses of the
cases under investigation. Perhaps a global conference
of all the concerned should be called for to find a
remedy.
To
Pharmusutcial establishments rushing for a cure, these
vices could be outcome of ignorance and error. But any
knowledge-based approach with an inner eye and mind
could trace out the truth and place it candidly
eradicating the weaknesses in the analytical systems and
illuminating a much nobler principle of treatment for
the good of mankind. After the facts, most political
leaders are awaken from the slumber to rethink of the
people’s approach and strategies to combat the
catastrophic disease impacting the masses across all
fields of human affairs. We, the People of the globe
are moral beings, we cannot ignore the sufferings of
fellow human beings, not matter how ideologies or
political doctrines divide us. It was wonderful that
China and Russia dispatched the essential medical
doctors and equipment to Italy, Iran, Spain and America.
In a time of
humanitarian crisis, this was plausible demonstration –
we are not alone – how we care about others, not the
“America First.” Often, politically aligned thoughts in
Europe and America have ignored the humanitarian
vitality of China and Russia for convenient political
expediency. There appears to be lot of conjures to be
cleaned and clarified for change and a new world order
of collaboration and help when it is most needed beyond
national flags and borders. We desperately need to
re-organize our thoughts and genius for unity and
coordination to pool the humanitarian resources to fill
the political gaps of egoism and anarchy between inept
patriotism and its global outreach to restructure our
policies and practices to extend humanitarian help to
all those who needed most, not the weapons of mass
destruction, not the claims of individual greatness but
a revitalized sense of One Humanity ready to protect the
present and future of human civilizations.
Dr. Mahboob
A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global
security, peace and conflict resolution with keen
interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and
civilizations, and author of several publications
including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of
Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Lambert
Academic Publications, Germany, 12/2019. -
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