Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
MILITARISM, 27 Jan 2025
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service
22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, help plan, and justify potential wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but in reality they mostly provide analyses which, knowingly or not, neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).
It is a rare think tank paid for by the US government that includes an analysis using the United Nations to prevent, or to end war. None of these think tanks let the public and politicians know that a “new UN” (i.e., a democratic world federation) is what will be needed to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction.
There is almost no discussion of the growing 109 movement — a legal requirement for the Charter to be reviewed. In the Review the outdated Charter should be directly compared to the Earth Constitution which is ready to provide the UN General Assembly with a model, guide and authority to establish the urgently needed world federal union government (“new UN” or “UN 2.0”).
The Earth Constitution movement as a replacement for the obsolete Charter is given the silent treatment by these think (stink) tanks. Why? America is in the War Business. A “new UN” (UN 2.0) designed properly with a real world constitution could have the potential to end war itself.
Indeed, invariably the assumption in most stink tank articles is that there exists an “enemy” (sometimes termed an “adversary”) which needs analysis: Where is the enemy’s vulnerabilities; what are its strengths?
The adversary (“enemy”) is usually demonized as authoritarian with a leader who is a “dictator” or a “strongman.” This helps the public believe that the so-called enemy is a bad guy, and deserves to be taken down by US/NATO.
In these stink tank articles US Empire’s illegal invasions and covert coups are never labeled as terrorism, or criminal. Instead, the myth is proudly maintained that US Empire is “exceptional.”
Most analysts in these stink tanks are, in my opinion, the equivalent of “hired guns” with Ph.D.’s and high IQ’s, and are capable of providing arguments to convince the politicians and public that any potential war will (of course) require more funding to have adequate weaponry to do the job.
The fact that a world federal government is the solution to ending war is simply not discussed, nor the fact that there is a world constitution waiting in the wings — the Earth Constitution.
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Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years of clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates. President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of DWF NEWS, and editor of Earth Federation News & Views. He supports a “new UN” under the Earth Constitution. www.earthfederation.info Email: earthstarradio@aol.com
Tags: Nonviolence, Think tanks, Violence, Warfare
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