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1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – 2019 Ukraine-Venezuela-Iran Crisis

May 22, 2019

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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Needed: More Realism and Less Dissing Commentary!

May 9, 2019

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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Be the Diplomatic Link Between the Superpowers!

April 26, 2019

Dear CCI Followers,

Our 2019 Mega-Diplomacy Trip to Russia for September 1 – 17 is in the planning phase––It’s exciting! If you haven’t signed up, please do so. It will be the most extensive exploratory trip ever taken to Russia by American citizens–and the last CCI trip of its genre and scope.

Become a Citizen Diplomat, learn for yourself, converse with Russian counterparts, hear what Russian experts have to say about a dozen different critical issues: Gorbachev on Cold War I and II, Russian experts’ understanding of national and international politics, Russia’s financial system, the impact of U.S. sanctions, rebuilding Russia’s healthcare and educational systems, learn how Russians see the current worldwide development, their deep concern about Nuclear War, Russia’s recently unveiled missile systems, Internet usage and journalism across today’s Russia. Last, learn what different Russians think about Putin, the role of Russia’s oligarchs, corruption, their renewed interest in Russian Orthodoxy and last but not least, U.S.-Russia relations.

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NUCLEAR WAR … Is Still With Us!

April 16, 2019

Dear CCI Friends,

America’s VIP elders, those most closely involved with nuclear weapons in the past, are speaking out with great concern and great clarity today. Read below. Will the current U.S. government and Congress listen … or will they continue with their reckless manner of avoiding the truth and putting us all in jeopardy? This is the question.

Secondly, Americans are for the most part unaware of how close we are to being exterminated by the nuclear weapons that now exist in Russian and American arsenals. We Americans have felt safe for so long, we feel so exceptional, that no one can attack us, and if they did, we could obliterate them. Today we have no treaties and no diplomacy between the United States and Russia to prevent another nuclear missile crisis. Only an uprising from below will change this situation.

How to wake America up? It won’t be easy. I’ll pose some questions at the end of this article that any of us can ask of our friends and family members to open up the discussion. Fortunately, we have a candidate running for the 2020 presidency who is addressing these issues head-on in YouTubes. We can expect she will do so during the presidential debates. This may finally wake up our people.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-threat-of-nuclear-war-is-still-with-us-11554936842

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Be Part of the Solution!

April 11, 2019

Dear CCI Friends,

I need your assistance! This is about CCI’s September Citizen Diplomacy Trip to Russia. We hope for a 100 member delegation. Consider traveling with us on this “one-of-a-kind” trip. It will be CCI’s most intensive diplomacy effort ever. Travelers will meet with and question a dozen Russian Experts in Moscow including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vladimir Pozner. The meetings are usually two-hour sessions. Our two videographers will capture the Expert meetings and much of the entire trip.

Following Moscow meetings, we travel in triads to 30 regional cities to explore average Russian citizens’ interests, their thoughts and concerns, and how they carry out their lives far from the centers of power. We will share similar topics with them. Following these visits we reconvene in St. Petersburg where we will spend the first full day listening to and learning from fellow travelers’ experiences in their regional cities. YouTube videos, articles and stats will result from this data dump. With our important work completed, we will enjoy St. Petersburg’s unparalleled classical culture and meet with numerous CCI alumni from our former business management training programs. During these and regional traveling days we will have had face-to-face discussions with thousands of Russians across 10 time zones.

We need more Americans to travel on this CCI fact-finding diplomatic mission.

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