There are extreme disparities of wealth on this planet. We live in a world of grinding poverty and fabulous wealth. Every day 38,000 people die of hunger or hunger-related illnesses. Every day Bill Gates earns over 86 million dollars. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. This means that every 2.27 seconds someone dies of hunger, and every one second Bill Gates earns over 1,000 dollars. This is globalization.

Over 3 billion people live in poverty, half the people on Earth. The majority of the world's people are living on less than 2 dollars per day. They are denied their basic human rights in violation of Article 25 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The South Summit in Havana recently declared poverty to be the greatest human rights violation.

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), there is enough food to feed all of the world's people, but it is not being distributed efficiently to the starving. Several years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a report entitled Bridging the Gaps which documented the effects of poverty. According to the report, one-fifth of the world's people live in extreme poverty, almost a third of all children are malnourished, and most people lack access to essential drugs. Over 10 million children under five die every year, often for lack of medicines costing 20 U.S. cents or less. Approximately 95% would survive with proper medical treatment. Over a million children die of measles every year, although the vaccine costs only 15 U.S. cents.

The British relief agency Oxfam calls poverty the "silent holocaust." Oxfam says that the money and technology to fight poverty are available, but the political will is lacking.

The great unspoken truth is that the wealth of the world's upper classes is stolen from the masses of humanity. Wealthy people are earning billions of dollars while the masses starve. The emperor has no clothes. The empire has no morals.

Poverty and hunger are being used as political and economic weapons. Globalization has enriched a small minority. The masses have not benefited at all from this economic system. Globalization is basically a new form of colonialism in which the masses are being exploited just as they were during the colonial era. The only difference is that a greater number of the educated people of the Third World are being rewarded and assimilated into the globalist system. The globalists learned from their previous mistakes.

Meanwhile, the masses are still hungry, cold, homeless, illiterate, sick, and dying of curable diseases. Every moral person must work hard to alleviate the suffering of the people. There must be a just dispensation for everyone.