We're overdue for a collective shift toward a more just, cooperative and ecologically sustainable culture. 

  If not now, when?

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 Moving Beyond War and Empire


 "We suffer from the considerable gap between our idealized self-image as a democratic, peace-loving nation and the reality of our history of genocide, slavery, discrimination, exploitation of working people, and imperial expansion." 

The U.S. "empire's hierarchy of dominance creates an illusion of order and security.             Feeding on its own illusions, Empire becomes a kind of collective addiction -                                    - a psychological dependence on domination, violence, and material excess."

 "We now have the means to end the five-thousand-year era of Empire that has reproduced hierarchies of domination at all levels of human organization"                                                    ... including our schools, businesses, governing bodies and churches.

Unfortunately there are still many "leaders of the most powerful U.S. institutions who pursue Empire as a holy mission and are prepared to use every means - from lies to assassinations to perpetual war - to block progress toward justice for all and to roll back the gains already achieved."

"A necessary part of the work of the Great Turning is to neutralize their power by exposing their lies, methods, and imperial agendas."
                                                                     ( from "The Great Turning" by David Korten)



"The greatest single assault on the environment comes from one agency: the Armed Forces of the United States," writes author Barry Sanders in The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism.

The U.S. military burns through 320,000 barrels of oil a day, making the Pentagon the largest institutional user of petroleum products. That tally doesn't factor in fuel consumed by contractors or the energy and resources used to produce bombs, grenades, missiles or other weapons.
Despite its status as top polluter, the Dept. of Defense has a blanket exemption to commitments made by the U.S. to curb greenhouse gas emissions.                   www.projectcensored.org


  
      

More than 2000 years ago,"the great Greek philosophers reasoned that the good society is one that supports every person in their journey to the full realization of the highest potentials of their humanity and, in so doing, reproduces the conditions of its own healthful function."                                                                                                    David Korten


  "A global cultural and spiritual awakening is building momentum toward the birthing of a new era of Earth Community based on a radically democratic partnership model of organizing human relationships ....   Raine Eisler

                    ... This awakening gives us cause for hope."







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