{"id":20986,"date":"2015-08-24T00:52:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20986"},"modified":"2015-08-24T00:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:54:19","slug":"u-s-perpetual-war-policy-demands-immediate-rethinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=20986","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Perpetual War Policy Demands Immediate Rethinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newport Beach, CA<br \/>\nAugust 23, 2015<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The War Epidemic and The Need<br \/>\nfor Radical Wisdom<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Professor James Petras has penned a powerful article outlining the<br \/>\nextent of the epidemic of war surging across the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Recent comments by some pundits that we have entered a period of<br \/>\nrelative peace deeply miss the mark as they underestimate the amount<br \/>\nof killing going on virtually everywhere one looks.<\/p>\n<p>As the global economy continues to implode, currency and trade wars<br \/>\ninevitably morph into shooting wars as Gerald Celente has solemnly<br \/>\nwarned us for years.<\/p>\n<p>Once again the casualties are mostly the innocent who get caught up\u00a0in the dreadful maneuverings of those nations with imperial designs.<\/p>\n<p>The young, the weak and the old are forced to flee while their fathers\u00a0and brothers are recruited for battle and the likelihood of death.<\/p>\n<p>A dark shadow has descended across the Earth echoing the worst portents\u00a0of biblical prophecy and various predictions of The End Times.<\/p>\n<p>New, spiritually empowered leadership embracing the Divine Feminine and<br \/>\nexpressing the wisdom of Ascended Masters from different faiths are needed<br \/>\nin abundance to stave off the certain destruction that is just ahead unless<br \/>\na new approach to governing is quickly adopted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/perpetualwar_590_394.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20989 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/perpetualwar_590_394.jpg\" alt=\"perpetualwar_590_394\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/perpetualwar_590_394.jpg 590w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/perpetualwar_590_394-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The antidote to the War Epidemic is the Peace Epidemic: the paradigm<br \/>\nshift away from reliance on weaponry to solve disputes and the push for<br \/>\nlivingry as the banner of sanity upon which to build a New World Order.<\/p>\n<p>We have come to a unique moment in history, a tipping point for which it<br \/>\nwill be difficult (or maybe even impossible) for anyone to avoid. That point<br \/>\nwill be defined in large part by the need for justice as described brilliantly<br \/>\nin an essay by Robert Abele.<\/p>\n<p>How to achieve justice while preserving liberty in the face of the rapidly<br \/>\ndeteriorating political and economic order is the task at hand for all those<br \/>\nstriving to contribute to a better future.<\/p>\n<p>It is a daunting challenge but one we must face with radical wisdom and<br \/>\napocalyptic courage as Byron Belitsos informed us several years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-age-of-imperial-wars\/5470957\">The Age of Imperial Wars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/ending-government-rule-of-the-elites-by-the-elites-for-the-elites\/5471116\">Ending Government Rule of the Elites, by the Elites, for the Elites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport Beach, CA August 23, 2015 The War Epidemic and The Need for Radical Wisdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}