The West has terrorized the South for centuries (unmentionable in respectable circles) under the guise of “defense,” a “a war on terror,” a “war on drugs,” “counter-insurgency” and “humanitarian intervention” (the number of victims is colossal!), partly motivated by racism but more importantly by the need to protect the fifth freedom: “The central—and not very surprising—conclusion that emerges from the documnentary and historical record is that US international and security policy, rooted in the structures of power in the domestic society, has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call ‘the fifth freedom,’ understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.” (Noam Chomsky) The struggle for justice will be a travesty if this crucial issue is not explicitly addressed and redressed. The surviving victims (and the family members of the non-surviving ones) of Western state terrorism, aggression and economic strangulation must be fully compensated and rehabilitated; the physical and non-physical infrastructure destroyed by such ultra-criminal policies and actions must be rebuilt by the South (not the West) but fully financed by the West with no strings attached; third world indebtedness (a joke in terrible taste!) must be completely cancelled (since the debts are odious). In brief, massive reperations must be made to the South, with no conditionalities whatsoever attached. (N.B. Those who gloat over the great wealth disparities between the West and the South shamelessly ignore the fact that Western (blood) profit and affluence are absolutely tied to slavery, to a history of extreme exploitation and oppression. Nor has this stopped, or is ever likely to short of species extinction, as long as we accept the basic assumption that our leaders have the right to own—hence dominate and brutalize—the world courtesy of corporate West)