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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

KoKo

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7. Kucinich's "Department of Peace"....

Reply to zipplewrath (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2014, 01:06 PM

Nov 2014

People laughed at it. But, given what's going on since he proposed it ...not crazy.

When did our State Department start to promote War instead of Diplomacy? There really isn't any counteraction to the powr of the Pentagon, NSA, CIA and even FBI (who apparently can now aid in foreign affairs).

Why are our National Guard being deployed overseas? And even to fight the so-called "War on Ebola."

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The international wing [View all] zipplewrath Nov 2014 OP

I agree. F4lconF16 Nov 2014 #1

I noticed this as well when compiling everyone's Eleanors38 Nov 2014 #2

War is easy. Peace is hard. L0oniX Nov 2014 #3

"If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing." Maedhros Nov 2014 #4

The Lesson is... demwing Nov 2014 #5

And, there's so much going on Internationally that we don't see KoKo Nov 2014 #6

Kucinich's "Department of Peace".... KoKo Nov 2014 #7

We need to reclaim diplomacy zipplewrath Nov 2014 #8

I agree with that. The Group is new though and before we can do anything about Peace abroad, we sabrina 1 Nov 2014 #9

International policy is domestic policy zipplewrath Nov 2014 #11

Kicked & Rec'd /nt demwing Nov 2014 #10