Turkey, Iran, Syria and Lebanon are the current targets.

Turkey, Iran, Syria and Lebanon are the current targets. If we examine our environment, signs are that we are destroying our universe through our selfish ambitions. Humankind faces new untimely challenges of catastrophic climatic changes and without any aggressive preventive actions, it will lead to serious energy and climatic shocks that will disrupt agriculture, industry and people in general.

The abstaining of signing the Kyoto Protocol by the US and some of its allies is a sign of defiance in maintaining a peaceful environment. Every nation must be able to take responsibility of its own actions. As Mayur Roshni, a leading urban environmentalist and head of Mumbai based Global Futures Network rightly analysed, 'it is becoming apparent that the governments ruling the world are in fact being controlled by multinational companies who call the shots'.

These trans-nationals buy governments and rule the world. Mayur further comments that 'trans-national corporations have become the real power of the earth, the de-facto government, outside the rule of law' (The War and Peace digest, 1996). The UN has proved ineffective in dealing with the challenges of trans-nationals like governments. These companies even walk out of the world court.

Abject poverty and suffering coupled with dependency has risen beyond the control of many nations' power to resolve it. The benefits of globalization seem to have bypassed more than 3 billion of the world's neediest people. When self made entrepreneurs can accumulate enough money to purchase that country then it is an embarrassment to human society.

When a single person from the elite takes home monthly incomes which are 100 times more than what an average worker in society earns in a year, something is totally out of place. The imbalance in economy, power, and world control being in the hands of dictators is very evident as the gap grows wider between the elite and ordinary citizens. People have to question their governments and the decisions their leaders make.

Why do military budgets in most countries exceed health and education budgets combined? Shirin Ebadi stated that if people want to free themselves from this cycle of terror and the wars of the 21st century then there is no other way but to put into practice the laws of human rights for all mankind (Gay, A. 2004). If enough people want change it will happen. But it cannot just happen by itself.