Dear peacemakers Roger and Renee,
Firstly, we, GHA, express our huge gratitude to Roger for your true peacemaking
concern for the fate of peace in connection with the invasion of USA/NATO to
Russia's borders, reminiscent to the Russians the Nazi invasion in 1941, and
for your presentation of our project "Russia-USA-PEACE" RUSAP
(http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=710) offering cooperation, dialogue
and global peace Summit between the two countries to prevent a nuclear
catastrophe for all. I was happy to publish your wonderful, true peacebuilding
article on our website “Peace from Harmony”:
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=680 ;
Secondly for Rene. Sometimes you write the good articles that I publish on your
personal page on our website. I posted yesterday your wonderful article about
Gandhian nonviolence: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=272. But today, ;
as many times in the past, we read your thoughts in the spirit of traditional
pacifism, which showed its secular impotence before the war, was helpless and
powerless to prevent the two world wars and hundreds of local wars with more
than 200 million of victims in the 20th century. You slept through the
bloodiest war with Hitler, as well as a continuous series of the US wars around
the world since 1945 with 20 million of victims. They not be stopped by the
thousands of your pacifist declarations, protests, appeals, articles and books.
Why you cannot or do not want to admit the falsity and defect of your
traditional pacifist methodology based on the facts of its age-old failures?
Why do you insist on "reasonable measures that can be taken on local-regional
level" that you do not know and do not offer? Imagine a situation, when Russia
puts its military infrastructure on the borders of France and the United States
and the peacemakers will offer "reasonable measures at local level." Or you
cannot imagine such a situation? If your methodology is dead and does not work
- you yourself admit that "Things are not moving in a positive direction," why
you do not want to support a new peacebuilding methodology - the methodology of
global peace from harmony based on the Global Peace Science?
Only such a methodology, not a pacifist, promises effective peaceful results.
But it requires a Copernican revolution of relations; replacement of military
relations to peace ones on a common scientific platform. Maybe your Association
World Citizens, headed by you is afraid of this revolution? We have not heard
from you constructive peace proposals and projects and you do not accept our.
Why? It's your problem. How do you decide it for yourself? When to our heads
will fall the nuclear bombs, it will be too late to think about peace and "to
over-stress the degree of tensions."
For the task of preserving peace and preventing war, especially nuclear and
lightning the "over-stress degree" does not exist. There is only stupidity,
incompetence and impotence. Do you agree with me?
Best wishes for peace from harmony through science (GPS),
Leo
Dr Leo Semashko:
-State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Russia;
-Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; -Global Harmony
Association (GHA) Founder (2005) and Honorary President (2016);
-Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org;
-Global Peace Science (GPS) from Harmony (616 pages):
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585; -SPHERONS as GPS Center
(20 pages): http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=423; -NO TO USA
WAR WITH RUSSIA:
http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/no-to-war-hot-or-cold-with-russia;
-Personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253
-Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNPQk-StY4
"The roots of wars grow out of military science (mind). The roots of
peace grow out of Global Peace Science (mind) and harmony of
SPHERONS". -- Leo Semashko
----- Original Message -----
From: Rene Wadlow, rene.wadlow@xxxxxxxxx
To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: 5 октября 2016 г., 12:09:07
Subject: NATO at Russia's Border Arouses Ghosts of a Nazi Invasion
I do not think that it is useful to over-stress the degree of tensions with
Russia which Leo does to an unreasonable degree. I think that cooler, world
citizen proposals are needed to propose tension-reduction measures even if they
are not acted upon at present. The Association of World Citizens has been
pushing for more federal structures for Ukraine and for good faith negotiations
for the Syria-Iraq conflicts. Things are not moving in a positive direction in
both situations for the moment, but I think that we can continue to show that
there are reasonable measures that can be taken on local-regional issues. Best
wishes, Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:53 AM, <EarthstarRadio@xxxxxxx> wrote:
NATO at Russia's Border Arouses Ghosts of a Nazi Invasion
Dr. Roger Kotila
Tuesday, 04 October 2016 Reader Supported News
There is increasing concern regarding the United States and Russia, fear that
current conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, along with U.S./NATO's move onto the
borders of Russia could escalate to a war and a possible nuclear confrontation.
This is not a fantasy.
The U.S. appears to be looking for a fight. Investigative journalist Robert
Parry in "The Existential Madness of Putin-Bashing" (Consortium News, 9-14-16)
describes what is going on against Russia as a "breathtakingly dangerous
strategy."
Parry writes: "By targeting Putin and Russia, the neocons have upped the ante
when it comes to their 'regime change' agenda. No longer satisfied with
inflicting 'regime change' in countries deemed hostile to Israel – Iraq, Syria,
Libya, Iran, etc. – the neocons have raised their sights on Russia."
According to Parry, Russia is being destabilized by "weakening its economy,
isolating it from Europe, pushing NATO up to its borders, demonizing its
leadership, and sponsoring anti-government political activists inside Russia to
promote regime change."
In an urgent Special Report (Consortium News, 10-3-16) Parry asks "Do We Really
Want Nuclear War with Russia?" He is convinced the American people are being
prepared for war. "The U.S. propaganda war against Russia is spinning out of
control, rolling ever faster downhill with a dangerous momentum that threatens
to drive the world into a nuclear showdown."
A VOICE FROM RUSSIA
A leading Russian peace activist explains why Russia cannot trust the U.S. and
NATO, but also offers a strategy for peaceful cooperation rather than war. Dr.
Leo Semashko, a State Councilor of St. Petersburg, Russia, shares Parry's alarm
and has reached out to American peace activists.
A sociologist and philosopher, Semashko is founder of Global Harmony
Association and the Chief Editor of Global Peace Science. GPS is the title of
a new book by "peace experts." It features articles on world peace by 174
authors from 34 countries. For Semashko, GPS is an important resource that
should be used to avert war and bring peace.
RUSSIA FEARS THAT NATO ON ITS BORDERS IS A SECRET OPERATION BARBAROSSA
Dr. Semashko tells us that NATO's expansion to Russia's borders is an ominous
sign, bringing up memories for Russians of the Nazi invasion of World War II --
Operation Barbarossa.
From Wikipedia we learn: "Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa)
was the code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union,
which began on 22 June 1941. The operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's
ideological desire to destroy the Soviet Union, as outlined in his 1925
manifesto Mein Kampf."
Semashko elaborates in an open letter (sic) to members of Global Peace Science
(8/30/16):
"The whole world is alarmed today with the United States and Russia extreme
level of nuclear confrontation, more dangerous than the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962. It is caused by three most menacing facts:
The first. Deployment of NATO nuclear weapons and the accompanying
infrastructure on Russia's western border that reminds to the Russians the
Hitler’s concentration of the Nazi troops within an aggressive plan Barbarossa
in 1941. Now it is in 2016 - 75 years later.
The second. Intention of the US administration to spend an additional $ 1
trillion for modernization of nuclear weapons in the next decade. For what is
it? It is not for peace, it is for nuclear war.
The third. Traditional, since Hiroshima/Nagasaki 1945, US policy, which allows
the first use of nuclear weapons. “
Sensing catastrophe, Semashko (8/30/16) exhorts "...we, peacemakers, cannot be
the indifferent and helpless sheep to be slaughtered on the altar of a nuclear
war, which would be a disaster for humanity and the planet."
APPEAL FOR RUSSIA-USA COPERNICAN REVOLUTION
Working with colleagues from the Global Harmony Association, Dr. Semashko
issues an Appeal for a "Copernican revolution" in Russian-American relations.
But how?
Semashko proposes forming a joint Institute of Global Peace Science with
offices in Russia and the United States. Such a Russia-USA Global Peace
Institute could open doors for peace science not found in our present
military-fixated culture where funding goes almost exclusively to military
science rather than peace science.
Semashko also sees the need for a "Scientific rearrangement of the global power
(including the UN) architecture and building a multipolar world order, ensuring
global peace since the end of the 21st century."
A GLOBAL PEACE CONSTITUTION
For rearranging the global power architecture Semashko looks to a world
constitution designed as a democratic world federal union with enforceable
world law: "Scientific basis of the Earth Constitution as a Global Peace
Constitution: the highest instrument of international law."
We must hope that Semashko's interest in the Earth Constitution is also seen
positively by the leaders in Russia. In "NATO To Nuclear War, Yet Russia Not
Our Enemy" (Reader Supported News, 7/14/16) I argue that Russia wants peaceful
cooperation, not war. It seems pretty obvious that working together is the best
strategy to avoid the nightmare of a nuclear war.
LABOUR PARTY LEADER CORBYN SAYS TALK TO RUSSIA
Journalist John Pilger reports that the leader of the British Labour Party,
Jeremy Corbyn would definitely talk to the Russians. In an election debate
Corbyn was asked: “How would you act on a violation by Vladimir Putin of a
fellow NATO state?”
Corbyn replied: “You would want to avoid that happening in the first place. You
would build up a good dialogue with Russia … We would try to introduce a
de-militarisation of the borders between Russia, the Ukraine and the other
countries on the border between Russia and Eastern Europe. What we cannot allow
is a series of calamitous build-ups of troops on both sides which can only lead
to great danger." (Pilger, “Provoking Nuclear War by Media,” Global Research,
8/23/16).
TRUMP’S SHOCKING IDEA: LET'S MAKE A DEAL
Pilger explains the frenzied opposition to Trump’s plan to talk to Putin:
"The CIA has demanded Trump is not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he
is not elected. The pro-war New York Times — taking a breather from its
relentless low-rent Putin smears — demands that he is not elected. Something is
up. These tribunes of “perpetual war” are terrified that the
multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its
dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Putin, then with China’s
Xi Jinping."
EMERGENCY GLOBAL PEACE SUMMIT
A new type of Summit is needed in order to avoid the typical type of diplomatic
(summit) meetings which have proved ineffective as evidenced by our world
floundering in crisis. Key world leaders must honestly face the need for both
a geopolitical and spiritual revolution. Such a Summit should plan on 30
continuous days together, and include examining the need for the obsolete UN
Charter to be phased out and replaced with a Global Peace Constitution – the
Earth Constitution.
Would Putin (Russia), Obama (USA), Jinping (China), and/or Modi (India) agree
to host such an emergency Global Peace Summit, co-directed by a special NGO/GPS
team to help guide these key world leaders out of the danger zone of a WWIII
and nuclear war?
By Roger Kotila, Ph.D. Psychologist
www.earthfederation.info
