A Warning Against Manipulating Minds and Distorting Truth as Tools of Domination
We address a clear call to the free people of the world, across all backgrounds, languages, and beliefs: the time has come to awaken. The time has come to confront the recklessness of the few who control the destinies of nations. Do not allow those intoxicated by the madness of power to decide for you, shape your future, or impose a reality that neither reflects who you are nor serves your humanity.
Awareness does not mean chaos. Questioning does not mean betrayal. Refusal does not mean hostility. Rather, it means that the human conscience is still alive — aware of its rights and committed to dignity. The time has come to restore respect for the human being, to return authority to the values of justice, and to give the voice back to the people. The world does not need new masters, but a global conscience that stands against recklessness, and free individuals who refuse to remain silent or submissive.
Today, the world stands on the edge of a comprehensive moral and humanitarian explosion. Wars are being waged with new faces, yet driven by the same mentality that burned humanity twice in the last century. The First and Second World Wars were not merely military conflicts; they were human earthquakes that left tens of millions dead, cities destroyed, generations psychologically scarred, and wounds that remain open in humanity’s collective memory.
The world once believed it had learned its lesson and that such tragedies would never be repeated. Yet the painful truth is that the same scenario is being replayed today — not all at once, but in installments. As soon as one war subsides, another ignites elsewhere. As one conflict calms, another is planted along new borders. It is as if the world has become a vast minefield, carefully designed not to explode once, but to exhaust humanity through one explosion after another.
Mines have been planted in every direction: sectarian and ethnic divisions, religions exploited to incite hatred instead of compassion, racism that turns human beings against one another, engineered poverty and deliberate starvation, diseases, pandemics, and viruses that are transformed from health crises into tools of political and economic pressure, as well as fear, hunger, and unemployment. There are also the mines of forced migration and the draining of nations of their youth and talents, leaving societies weakened from within.
Even more dangerous are the mines targeting human values themselves — planting hatred instead of love, division instead of solidarity, selfishness instead of shared responsibility. What is happening today is not merely the destruction of homelands, but the systematic fragmentation of morals, the organized dismantling of societies, and the constant spread of fear and insecurity, until individuals become preoccupied only with survival rather than dignity.
This is how modern wars are waged — not only with tanks and weapons, but by emptying human beings of meaning, breaking their confidence, and reducing them to fearful individuals struggling merely to survive.
In this context, the human mind itself has become a direct target through organized campaigns designed to confuse thought, spread lies, and distort facts in order to subdue peoples and weaken their will. This is not simply misinformation or differences of opinion; it is a sophisticated mechanism of control used to dominate societies and empower authoritarian forces to seize resources and decision-making power.
Mental manipulation deliberately mixes truth with falsehood, weakens critical thinking, spreads fear and confusion, and manufactures a fabricated reality imposed on people as if it were the truth. This is carried out through directed media, organized rumors, digital disinformation, and the falsification of history and facts.
When individuals lose the ability to distinguish between truth and lies, they become incapable of resistance or independent decision-making. Citizens turn into passive recipients of misleading messages. Peoples are stripped of their political and social will, societies are dismantled from within, and individuals become fearful consumers of carefully engineered narratives, making domination easier and repression more acceptable.
Colonialism today no longer requires tanks and armies. It uses media instead of cannons, rumors instead of bullets, and disinformation instead of direct occupation. It is intellectual colonialism — a silent form of domination that controls minds before territories.
In the end, we must remember a simple yet fundamental truth: we are all human beings, equal in dignity, rights, and destiny. No religion, race, or language makes one person superior to another. What unites humanity is far greater than what divides it. Our future is shared, our security is interconnected, and justice for one is justice for all.
Therefore, responsibility now lies with everyone who possesses awareness and a voice: do not merely observe. Do not allow silence to become complicit in wrongdoing. Do not let distorted powers impose a reality that kills dreams and erases values. The time has come to reject all forms of domination and to reclaim dignity, humanity, and justice — to build a world founded on truth, awareness, and human solidarity.
Dr. Saleh Muhamed Daher
President, International Shield Organization
President, International Union of Journalists and Writers
President, International Diplomatic Council
