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“Since Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker in April 2006 exposing an apparent Pentagon plan to attack Iran, an attack in which for the first time since Hiroshima the use of nuclear weapons was contemplated, Iran has become a focus of American attention. It was not always thus. As Gary Sick observes, before the Iranian hostage crisis, Iran hardly even evoked a stereotype for the U.S. citizen, not even in the way China, Egypt, or India did. At best, as Persia, it might suggest cats, carpets, and caviar. American awareness of Iran was characterized by a combination of ignorance and wholesale amnesia. For Hamid Dabashi, the invasion plan raised the question “of hegemony and Empire—one with or without the other” (“Native Informers”). Did the American empire have a hegemonic project or ideological agenda? Or was it just making a mess all over the world? Recent debates have focussed keenly on this question of the degree to which the American state knows what it is doing and consciously pursues imperialist aims. For Niall Ferguson, it is an empire that dare not speak its name, an “imperialism of anti-imperialism,” posing as liberationist (61). Hardt and Negri simply portray American domination as corresponding with economic domination. In his Empire trilogy (Blowback, Nemesis, and The Sorrows of Empire), Chalmers Johnson equates empire with militarism, based upon American armed forces stationed in foreign countries, whether in an advisory and support capacity, or in the 737 U.S. bases in some 130 countries that he counted in 2006 and described as “a planet-spanning baseworld” of foreign enclaves that function as parasitical neocolonies completely beyond the jurisdiction of the occupied nation (Nemesis 6; see also Blowback and The Sorrow of Empire). For Johnson, most U.S. imperialism operates as a “stealth imperialism” well below the sightlines of the American public (Blowback 65). American ignorance about their country’s operations also explains why attacks on Americans are greeted with cries of shock and outrage. In his analysis Johnson adopts the term “blowback,” first invented by officials of the CIA to refer to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press report as the malign acts of “terrorists” or “drug lords” or “rogue states” or “illegal arms merchants” often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations (Blowback 8).”

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“Nowadays children around the world suffer this kind of injustices and to be specific poor children suffer more, they are raped, they are exploited even by their parents and they are killed by stupid wars. Millions of children around the world dream, I have heard children saying they want to be professionals, like, doctors, ecologists, writers, singers, artists, singers, etc, they dream and hope this life will provide them everything to achieve what they want, but, some of them are disappointed, they have suffered a lot and they don't have any dreams, they live as adults working without education and without love, they don't dream because nobody has told them they can dream and they can change their lives. They don't wait and they don't hope for anything, they are like lights turned off. This is very sad because Children are the new generation, they will be the future of México, the United States and all the countries in the world. They have to dream and they have to achieve their dreams and as adults we need to encourage them. we need to motivate them to be great women and men. We need to avoid conflicts; we need to avoid wars that just spoil dreams. It is important to know that children come with innocence and the only thing children need is love. they need to be accepted, it doesn' matter what race, it doesn't matter what color their skin is, I doesn't matter where they are, from a mountain, a big city, Oaxaca, Kabul or Vietnam. They have the right to be listened, the right to be loved. It is very selfish from our behalf that we just think about our own interests, it is absolutely selfish that powerful countries are just fighting and making wars for economical interests and they have to kill thousands of children. The innocence in the world is decreasing because the violence against children is increasing. Some children have lost their legs because of landmines in the Middle-East, many children don't have anything to eat while big companies keep growing. But the sadest thing is that children are suffering because their parents don't understand each other, it is sad that they, having their parents have to beg love. some of them don't have way out, they are abandoned and they live in orphanages trying to find something that motivates them to dream and to change their lives. Children around the world need to achieve their dreams, they need to be happy and free.”

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