Furthermore, national governments feel compelled to spend countless billions on embassies, consulates, border walls, and border guards for “national security.” Consider the two trillion dollars total that national governments spend on preparing for and waging wars every year. State secrets for “national security” and “public order” allow governments to act extra-judicially and to violate human rights with impunity. Human and natural resources would be better spent on environmental, scientific, and technological advancements than on secrets, spying, and information suppression. Democratic world federation and world citizenship would provide a holistic framework for uniting our political governing structures and for uniting us as humans. David Gallup is a human rights attorney, President of the World Service Authority and Convenor of the World Court of Human Rights Coalition.

Source: Ethiopian News February 11, 2023 23:34 UTC