I am heading today to Visakhapatnam, India for a peace and human development conference that the Global Network is co-sponsoring. Global Network board member J. Narayana Rao, who lives in Nagpur, India, in recent years has been organizing an annual peace conference in order to introduce Indian students, academics and peace workers to the issues surrounding the militarization of space.
The US has been working hard to bring India into the space warfare program in order to tilt the power in the region away from China. So as corporate globalization has moved low-paying jobs to India in order to exploit cheap labor, the US has decided to try to push some of that new Indian wealth into the coffers of the military industrial complex by signing up Delhi to help pay for the Pentagon's expensive space program.
India has created a 'Space Command' mimicking the US Space Command even down to duplicating much of the aggressive language in the so-called Vision for 2020 that calls for US 'control and domination' of space.
Along with me at the conference will be other leaders from the Global Network coming from England, Japan, US and South Korea.
Following the conference we will be taken to some other Indian cities in order to speak at local colleges and then we'll make a side trip to the border country of Nepal that sits between India and China. Rao has been working for some time to develop contact between our organization and activists in Nepal so this trip will be ground breaking of sorts.
Bruce
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