Friends, please read carefully the article below. It addresses directly what has happened, what is happening and what needs to happen across America. After reading the first four paragraphs at my Toyota dealership, I stopped and immediately sent the author my gratitude for presenting the truth in so few packed words––then voraciously read the remainder of it with deep appreciation after arriving back at my office.
Katrina vanden Heuvel has set the stage for what she terms “a desperately needed fierce and energetic citizen intervention—a movement that demands both a reckoning and a change in course.”
This is imminently doable leading up to 2019. Conditions in the U.S. and worldwide are shifting at a phenomenal rate. Rampant subterfuge and false rumors are now being exposed daily, such that even our disengaged mainstream population are beginning to open their eyes and minds and are shocked at what is happening daily in the media.
Let’s figure out how to join our networks, present our citizenry at large with “how to” options in which to participate in “citizen interventions”… so together we can make the most of this crucial period into which we are rapidly moving.
After reading the article below, send your ponderings, bold ideas and commitments to this process! We will share and discuss them on line … and more going forward.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
The Nation
June 20, 2018
Why We Need a Wider Foreign-Policy Debate
The establishment consensus has failed. Citizen intervention can change that.
A reckoning with America’s failed national-security policy is long overdue. Donald Trump’s reckless machinations are destructive, but so too is the bipartisan establishment consensus that has defined our role in the world for decades and remains remarkably unshaken, despite its evident bankruptcy.
Our calamitous misadventures in the Middle East and the global financial collapse of 2008 dramatically exposed the failures of this consensus. Yet while citizen movements have begun to transform domestic politics, they have been virtually invisible when it comes to foreign policy. This special issue of The Nation challenges what has been a remarkably narrow debate in this area. Without pretending to offer a grand strategy, it provides alternative perspectives, grounded in values widely shared by the American people. We seek to instigate not only a more open debate, but a new call to action.