The Game Behind Globalization*




"The ‘global economy’ is their most important media enterprise. ‘Global economy’ is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald’s, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath the glass, it is the globalization of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water." John Pilger




Globalization, the integration of world views, ideas, culture and economy which make the world so called global village and in the smaller global village around 24,000 people die of hunger only because they cannot afford to live. Globalization is nothing but a Great Game of Big Brothers. 85 richest individuals in the world have as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population. George Orwell — 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'



The world where millions of human beings die of hunger and diseases, millions of women sell themselves, millions of workers and farmer suicide, millions of children cannot get an education and millions of people cannot get medicine there a few people and companies rule the world.*



The gap between haves and have nots is increasing second by second. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. On one hand, one in every three malnourished children of the world live in India and on the other hand Mukesh Ambani can spend 1 million dollars every day for coming two hundred years. On one hand 2.3 million children are under risk of poverty in Spain and on the other people of Spain celebrate Tomatina festival where they fight with 150 tons of ripe tomatoes. It is a pity. Our minds are being controlled and programmed, they cut out the necks with blunt razor blades, exploit our lives, make false a truth, amass world's economy and let us die and we say, "They are helping Us."



Conditions of workers in factories of Pakistan are worse, they live under 2 dollars per day. Thousands of workers work for cheap wages for living, they live hand to mouth and their bosses whom they never know live outside of the country. They live hand to mouth, cannot provide good food, health and education to their children because of the cheap wages and even their children start laboring. The irony is what workers make cannot buy for themselves. If a worker makes footballs in a factory cannot buy it fir his children. Noam Chomsky says, "it is not the great secret that the economy is overwhelming in the hands of private corporations." Half of the population of Pakistan is below the poverty line. 3.3 million children are victims of child labor and Pakistanis bought property worth 7.5bn Dirhams, and became the second largest community in the list of expatriate property buyers in Dubai during 2014." Dawn News



Globalization removes restrictions on foreign trade so that much profit can be gained. The outcomes of globalization are quite dangerous. There are 100 countries who are more poorer that that were 15 years ago. The pundits of globalization favor it so that they can suck the blood of developing countries.



In the book, Why Nations Fail, the writers have given much importance to free market economy, and tell those nations fail who have extractive political economies. The same analysis is given by Francis Fukuyama in the book The End of History and the last man. It is a question for consideration that how much globalization and free market economy have widened global inequality?




WTO focusses more on expanding the trade between states so that the globalization of poverty increases *G.20 behind the curtain of Free market and globalization murder thousands of lives. The more the world is captured by the capitalists the more people remind Karl Marx, "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." We are living in a world where a man like Bill Gates can live 218 years by spending one million dollar per day and on the other hand millions of children, women, men have nothing to eat and drink fresh water. No doubt globalization is second name of imperialism__ the poison in honey.*



"War is Peace*

Freedom is slavery*

Ignorance is strength"



*By:

Zuhaib Ahmed Pirzada*
ISLAMABAD

Published In Pak-OBSERVER