Two UN statisticians helped me, when I was writing my book on the horrors of modern, post-Suharto Indonesia, "Indonesia -- Archipelago of Fear."
Not everyone has the guts to 'go public', or to resign. But I know: whenever great matters are at stake, there are thinkers and teachers, doctors and pilots, UN experts, economists, lawyers, even some government officials and soldiers, who are ready to risk their careers, and support me, or people like me, and therefore directly or indirectly joining the struggle.
These days I never feel desperate or hopeless. Some of the greatest individuals are on our side.
Just look at the "BRussells Tribunal"! Or look at the 'composition', the list of those who are writing for The Counterpunch or The Greanville Post.
Of course, the journey, the process, is not without those who betray it. There are always people who put their petty fears and interests above the great struggles. They betray individuals, the fighters, and they also betray entire concepts. But nothing is, or should be 'perfect'.
Those who betray will, one day, face their own conscience, if they have any at all. They will not be at peace with themselves. As for the honest fighters, traitors will certainly hurt them, but after a while, they will get up, straighten themselves again, and march forward.
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There is great hope, everywhere. And not too see it, not to sense it, would take truly great 'discipline'.
Russia got up from its knees and confronted the Empire. China did the same, in many ways returning to Socialist, even Communist designs. Both big nations are increasingly 'internationalist' when it comes to their foreign policy. Both are also deeply concerned with the lives of their people.
Latin America broke the shackles of Western imperialism and of the racist 'Monroe Doctrine'. Each one of these great nations: Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, is going its own way, but in brilliant solidarity with each other, and as a bloc. Each one is also forging closer and closer links with China and Russia.
Those nations that have been overrun by the West, recently: Paraguay and Honduras are seen clearly as scarecrows. Nobody in their sane mind would like to follow their 'examples'.
Africa, the most injured continent on Earth, is standing tall at least at its two extremes: South Africa and Zimbabwe in the South, and Eritrea in the north.
As complex as the situation is there, North Korea, Vietnam and Laos are still in the camp of the rebels, and have to be taken seriously.
Were India not to betray the BRICS, were it not to jump into an horrific embrace of the West and Israel, as well as its own grotesque religious and cast-driven nationalism, at least one half of the planet would now be standing firmly against the Empire and its sinister design to fully control the world.
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I spoke to my Kashmiri friends about all of this.
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