What we are witnessing is nothing less than re-colonization and occupation by NATO for seizure of resources and strategic regions, in collusion with collaborator governments in the Arab World, in Asia and in Africa. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Co-operation Council are an integral flank of NATO in the Arab homelands and finance organizations which are the instruments of the collaboration just as other governments in Asia, Australia and Africa are also instruments of the take over of societies and their resources, national budgets and markets. On the other hand, and as a part of the same policy framework citizens of NATO countries are being systematically pauperized to bail out their banks and financial institutions and are suffering devastation on a vast scale which will end in suffering almost similar to war, sanctions and occupation being imposed on so many countries.

Some of these videos of the hiring of mercenary fighters in Saudi Arabia and barbaric auctioning for this purpose have to be repeated, as propaganda by anti-humanity forces is on going. Wahabism is not Islam, it has been used by Colonialism in the Arab world and in South Asia among other regions including South East Asia and in Africa, to better achieve the objectives of Imperialism, just as other religions have been similarly misused to enslave people and societies of which there are many examples across Continents.

Those frustrated by the reaction of their governments in covert or overt alliances, must not forget that the No Fly zone for Libya, paving way for indiscriminate bombing, was passed by the permanent members of the Security Council and acquiesced in by others, as was the earlier No Fly Zone for Iraq. It must not be forgotten that some governments have negotiated most favoured treatment or capitulated and are responsible for the present state of the world as they collaborated in the emergence of NATO as the predominant military alliance. The subjugation of Afghanistan from 1980 when it was over run over by so called Mujahideen of NATO and its alliance partners Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan among others was similarly acquiesced in by many governments some of whom actively encouraged these mercenary gangs who are hired and used from country to country in the name of Islam.

We have seen the manner in which UN Human Rights organizations have been used to condemn Libya and Syria when the serious perpetrators of anti-humanity operations have been committed by NATO and its alliance partners in continuous wars for occupation and seizure of finances, markets and resources from Yugoslavia to Iraq, to Haiti, Congo and Mali, to Libya and Syria, to Yemen and the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan and Central Asia, even as Palestinian territories have been colonized by Israel an extension of NATO in the region along with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Co-operation  Council . The illegal acts of barbaric governments of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Co-operation Council, with Saudi troops assisting the atrocities in Bahrain and despite the enslavement of millions of workers from developing countries who have no civic rights whatsoever and who are held as bonded about in these countries receives no condemnation whatsoever by UN Human Rights Organizations.

Many governments and societies the world over have compromised with Imperialism and made separate compacts against the interest of their own people. Religion, sectarianism, tribal loyalties, racialism, etc., have all have been misused to subordinate societies to global financial interests.

The tragedy is that only when governments face imminent regime change assisted by Imperialism that they complain not when they turn collaborators against their own people and against the people of other societies. Despite a clear strategy to re-colonize Asia, Africa and Latin America by NATO in alliance with collaborator governments, intellectuals shy away from using the term ' Imperialism' used by economists to describe the process of take over of the financial and other resources of countries victimized by the ruling financial and economic interests of colonial and Imperial powers.

The contingents of military troops provided by countries in Asia and the AU for re-colonisation and their inability to oppose re-colonization of countries in their regions is collaboration with NATO at the cost of their own people and regions. However as governments will discover to-day's collaborators will become to-morrow's victims in this creeping devastating global war.

Citizens of NATO countries have themselves become victims of the financial devastation being visited on their societies the other side of this global war which they are required to resist in their own interests even as militarization and military budgets pauperize an increasing number of people with social security fast receding declared as "unaffordable" by governments waging hundreds of bombing sorties and maintaining hundreds of military bases which reduces the solvency of these governments creating  a sovereign debt crisis.

Anti-war movements are required to be integrated into movements for restoring democracies and Republics in countries of NATO powers and dismantling their war machines. Whereas political movements across Asia, Africa and Latin America must focus on whether their governments are collaborators of NATO powers and call for the withdrawal of military contingents supporting NATO wherever deployed. The use of military force for resource seizure anywhere is to be condemned.

Read the hundred orders promulgated by the US  - UK and the Coalition of the Willing on the invasion and occupation of Iraq they sum up the objectives of this creeping global war with many theatres by the same powers in collaboration.

NILOUFER BHAGWAT is Vice President of the Indian Lawyers Association - Mumbai and is a member of the BRussells Tribunal Advisory Committee.