An end to manufactured wars of aggression between nations, forever and a world in which every nation is a genuine, lasting steward of its own environment.
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We are not anti-military, and we are not anti-defense. Every nation has the right — and the responsibility — to maintain a standing force capable of protecting its borders from hostile or criminal entry. Strength and peace are not opposites. What we oppose is war used as a tool of aggression, profit, or manufactured conflict between nations that have no true quarrel with one another.
A nation's security is not only measured at its borders. We believe a nation must also be resilient against forces — foreign-directed or homegrown — that work to divide, corrupt, or destabilize it from within, whether through crime, disinformation, or the erosion of civic trust. A high-trust, low-crime society is not a luxury; it is a precondition for lasting peace. Our work in wellness, education, and community is part of building that resilience.
We take seriously the warnings of geological economists about the finite resources our civilization depends on — work our founders point to includes Blip: Humanity's 300-Year Self-Terminating Experiment with Industrialism by Christopher Clugston. Whatever a person's politics or philosophy, the underlying math is the same: a world that keeps fighting over a shrinking resource base is a world headed for collapse. A world that learns to cooperate — nation with nation, and nation with its own land — has a chance at something better. That is why we hold ending wars of aggression and genuine environmental stewardship as two halves of a single mission, not two separate causes.
We believe those who profit from perpetual war — arms profiteers, career escalators, and the industries built around conflict rather than resolution — should be named, watched, and restrained through lawful, democratic means: transparency, accountability, and an informed public. That is a fight we are willing to have, waged with truth and organizing, not with more war.
Two presidents, a generation apart, told the country the same uncomfortable truth from opposite ends of a single warning.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." — President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961
The most celebrated quote from John F. Kennedy's 1961 "Secret Societies" speech (technically his Address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association) is:
"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." — President John F. Kennedy, Address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
Beyond the famous opening, the 1961 address focused on balancing national security with a free press, warning against excessive government secrecy. Key points include:
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