Friends,

The risks of turning our planet into an inferno increases by the day. Meanwhile leading newspapers and channels carry endless squabbles between Democrats and Republicans, 2020 candidates, anything but the “elephant in the room.”

Why are we Americans not reacting with alarm as we did in the 1980s when the first nuclear stand-off rocked our nation? Why is it that our doctors, mayors, business leaders, and religious dignitaries aren’t mobilizing to educate the American public on this devastating issue?

Are we walking toward Doomsday with placid disinterest––too immersed in consuming and petty issues to notice?

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CCI Friends,

Some of you began flooding me last week with a Daily Beast article (a publication I’ve never read). Apparently, the Beast identified three of us who purportedly gave contributions to Tulsi Gabbard for the 2020 election. Out of all of the millions who are interested in and may have contributed to this candidate, how could the Beast have come up with my name?

Then on May 22nd, Matt Taibbi, formerly an anti-Putin,”anti-Russia” writer in Moscow, came out in The Rolling Stone (another edgy outlet I’ve never followed), still with only three of us identified. Mentioning Professor Stephen Cohen is sensible, since he’s spoken truth about Russia for years and has met with Gabbard. But they must have searched hard to have chosen the other two of us. Undoubtedly, we’ve reached an all-time low in American journalism.

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Friends,

Today we sit at the juncture of another Nuclear War crisis — this time few Americans are even discussing it amongst themselves. Life is going on as though our lives and our planet are blessed with some sort of perpetuity.

Study the article below and ponder …  Are we like lemmings wandering off to the cliffs? Is there potential to face the facts? What will it take? Only Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is sounding alarm bells during this period we are moving into. Is she the latest Town Cryer?

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Dear CCI Readers,

We need more realists, particularly those in positions of name recognition. We need them to pledge to promote “realism” among and for us all, particularly when a Nuclear War hangs in the balance. Too often, Democrats and Republicans alike, support politics-as-usual and even worse, write dissing commentary for those who promote realism.

In April of 2018 I met with Paul J. Saunders, the publisher of The National Interest. He had just printed an article on the need for “People Diplomacy,” given that official diplomacy was/is non-existent. He was the first of his level to venture forth with this idea in print. Having built the largest peoples’ diplomacy program in the U.S., I shared with him CCI methodologies that could still work at this late date. I found Saunders to be a deeply concerned Republican struggling to deal with the reality in which we all find ourselves. He was and is brave enough to reveal his concerns, search for answers and pledge to foster realism in the The National Interest despite the repetitious noise of both parties.

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