Dear CCI Friends,
A Swedish man, Jan Oberg, whom I consider to be my counterpart across the ocean, has put up this amazingly simple message. It demonstrates where we are…and the questions we need to be asking ourselves. There is still time, but it is imperative that we change course this year in 2021.
It makes no difference who we voted for, we need to become educators on saving our earth. The consequences for ourselves, our children and grandchildren will be horrendous otherwise.
Join us in asking the hard questions about why we in America are a “warring nation.” Why do we spend so much money on our military and ever more destructive weapons? Why do we need to be #1 in the world?
Let us give up “Unipolar” status and work toward a “Multipolar” world where the larger nations of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States can begin to work jointly to curb wars and strive for a world that works for larger and smaller nations and peoples.
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Dear friend
Most people and organizations concerned about militarism, warfare and nukes focus on the weapons, the budgets, the statistics of arms trade or the number of casualties and that sort of tangible things.
But we shall understand little unless we dig deeper, into human and civilizational non-material dimensions too. For instance, what makes people love the bomb so much that they don’t protest?
How do wars compensate for an inner emptiness? What delusional ways of thinking make us believe we are great while actually destroying our future?
Here we bring you some new think-deeper pieces on The Transnational – the type twitterers and facebookers don’t know the value of:
Martin Luther King, Jr. and “The Year of Nonviolence or Nonexistence”
The peace discourse that disappeared: Go on with passion and detachment
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“Goodbye Peace – Worldmoires Into A Peaceful Future”
I hope you will find something of interest in my new and “different” memories and follow the creation of this online book – of which the first small parts have just been launched. Explore!
Jan Oberg – PhD, director & co-founder