Large groups of desperate people are a a national security risk, whether in a US city or in a corner elsewhere in the world. Desperate people do desperate things & are more vulnerable to ideological capture by genuinely psychotic forces. One of the reasons for a US Dept of Peace.
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Just as we don’t only take medicine but also need to cultivate health, our national security agenda should include more $ for efforts to proactively cultivate peace. Peace games as well as war games; soul force as well as brute force; a Peace Academy as well as a Military Academy
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In the words of Thomas Paine, "We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” So do we, if we’re willing to imagine the world as it should be and intentionally work to create it. marianne2020.com/issues/us-d…

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The US Department of Peace, of all your ideas, is the one that will cost you your candidacy. It's so Orwellian anyone aware of it will not even contemplate it.
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Generation IV Reactors can power the clean industry the world needs to abundantly, peacefully grow forward. Industrialized nations are at peace. Socialist nations are at war.