There is no glory in war

In an interview, Michael Ferner, interim director of Veterans for Peace, discusses the growing calls for non-violent means of resolving issues.

Veterans for Peace, a US-based non-governmental organization founded in 1985, seeks to eradicate war as a national policy. The group comprises veterans from many eras and conflicts, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to their website, "Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary." Michael Ferner is the group's Interim Director. Jason Francis interviewed him for Share International.

Share International: What was behind the formation of Veterans for Peace?

Michael Ferner: The group Vietnam Veterans Against the War was created in 1967. A number of military veterans, most of them from the Vietnam War, got together in the mid-1980s and decided they wanted to form an organization that would provide a platform for veterans in an ongoing way, not just following a particular conflict. What brought people together at that time was a sense of urgency regarding US policies in Central America - using death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala, and later, funding the Contras in Nicaragua. (more…)

Occupiers Must Learn How To Use The Creator To Win Over The Power-Elite And Their Soldiers Of Gas-Destruction

by Gabriel of Urantia

History doesn’t talk much about it (with the exception of the Old Testament and other holy writings of various religions), but most of the prophets and holy men of old have been revolutionaries, including Jesus Christ. Even over the last few centuries, revolutionaries like George Washington, Joseph Smith (of the Mormons), and Gandhi were men who prayed to the Creator for guidance. When they did pray, many of their historical accounts said that miracles happened. (more…)

The Occupy Movement In Relationship To George Washington, The Colonists, And How They Won The Revolution

by Gabriel of Urantia

The Occupy movement—no matter how many protestors—is overpowered by the might of the power-elite’s police force and “weapons of gas-destruction” against the poor and disenfranchised, students, and the once middle class, as the early colonists were by the British empire. (more…)

The Truth and Answers About Free Healthcare

by Gabriel of Urantia 

Jesus wasn’t a politician. However, I recently watched both Democratic and Republican debates. I was hoping to watch a third-party debate, but that’s another article. Maybe 10 minutes of the more than four hours of presentations were spent on the need for free national healthcare. And in those 10 minutes, from all of the candidates, I think I understood about 5 seconds of their 26-letter, bureaucratic jargon—jargon that really means nothing. As the Native American elders would say, “They speak with forked tongue.”

In order to talk about “free” anything, you have to realize what the root of the problem is. And that is: plain greed. You see, doctors are supposed to be healers. They are supposed to go into the profession because of a calling from the Creator, not for the desire to become rich or to have top status in a broken and materialistic society. (more…)

Pseudo Activism And University Students

The Great American Dream Is Over, But Many Millions Of Americans Still Hang On To False Hopes. The 99% Are Beginning To Awaken To The Entrapment Of The False Powers. Is There An Answer To The Future?

By Gabriel of Urantia 11/11/11

On Saturday my wife and I were driving to the Occupy movement in Tucson that was going to march to the Bank of America to protest. My son and two daughters were there already, as well as several others from our community. We drove past the University of Arizona stadium where the Wildcats football team was playing that day. We saw hundreds of college students walking with six-packs in their hands. As we drove by the university stadium parking lot, we saw thousands of students with kegs of beer and booths, all getting drunk and boisterous.

I thought this looked more like Sodom and Gomorrah than a university parking lot, even if there was a football game going on. But the main thought I had was these college students should be going to the Occupy Bank of America march. When we got to the march, there were only about one hundred people, but there were thousands of people at the university parking lot drinking beer. (more…)

The White Baby Boomers’ and X-Generation’s Responsibility

(The Once Middle Class), The Cry of the Indigenous, And The 99% Movement

by Gabriel of Urantia

When I was a young man in my late twenties, I went to a sweat lodge facilitated by a shaman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was a Taino native from the tribe where Christopher Columbus landed in Central America. I told him about a book I was reading by two white Harvard graduates and pointed out a part in the book that talked about some seagulls showing up over Columbus’ ship and guiding them to the landing where the Taino lived. They attributed this to Manifest Destiny—God. The shaman corrected the theory and told me that this so-called “manifest destiny,” perpetrated by the white powers, meant the deaths of millions of indigenous and the suppression of them for hundreds of years until this day. I did my own research, and the shaman was correct, of course. (more…)

Defining a Spiritualution - a Spiritual Revolution

In Reference to the 99% Movement and Occupy Wall Street
What the People Must Do to Win Over the Power Elite

by Gabriel of Urantia

Firstly, whenever the poor and disenfranchised—who were abused for years—took to the streets, they were hosed, attacked by the police dogs, beaten with sticks, and pepper sprayed. But now this new movement is not just a movement of poor blacks or other minorities but a combination of white and black races as well as yellow, brown, and red. It’s a true racial coalition that has representation from 99% of the population.

Now the children of the once middle-class parents are speaking out and protesting because they can’t get jobs and have huge student loans to pay off. Where were they when they weren’t as much affected by the greed and power control of the elite? (more…)

Democracy: What It Is and What It Isn’t in America

Published by kind courtesy of Global Community Communications Alliance.
Please contact info@GlobalCommunityCommunicationsAlliance.org for permission to reprint.

Defining Democracy from a Fourth-Dimensional Consciousness

The following are definitions of both democracy and republic (from Microsoft Bookshelf ’95).

de·moc·ra·cy   noun
1.   Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2.   A political or social unit that has such a government.
3.   The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
4.   Majority rule.
5.   The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

re·pub·lic   noun
1.   a. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
b. A nation that has such a political order.
2.   a. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
b. A nation that has such a political order.
3.   Often Republic. A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
4.   An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
5.   A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.

Many people cannot see much difference between a republic and a democracy, and they shouldn’t, because in many ways they are both the same. But people’s understanding over the last 200 years in America of what both a democracy and a republic are has been diminished considerably. (more…)

The Will of the People

A compilation

Excerpts from the book "Messages from Maitreya, the Christ", from Benjamin Creme's Master's articles and from Benjamin Creme's writings, illustrate the call to action which, as humanity responds, will transform the world, published here courtesy Share International magazine.

We present a selection of quotations on the theme of 'The Will of the People' from Maitreya (Messages from Maitreya the Christ), Benjamin Creme's Master (A Master Speaks), and Benjamin Creme's writings. (more…)

Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Survival Plan for the Human Species

a book review by Gerard Aartsen

In his book, former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer calls for a truer, broader view of reality, one which embraces the fact of our interplanetary brotherhood of humanity, and acknowledges the serious threats to human survival on planet Earth. Published here courtesy of  Share International magazine.

Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer instantly rose to fame within the circles of disclosure and exopolitics activists when he declared, in a speech at the Exopolitics Toronto Symposium in September 2005, that "UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead'' and that "the veil of secrecy must be lifted''. (more…)