20 Articles

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Building New Armies Builds World Peace?
Few know what the President will do with tomorrow's policy issues. However, his ghostly Presidential chronicler can give you a good idea of where his policies are heading. He tells us the President wants another much bigger army to help win the terror wars, build America's economy, and make the world safer. Is he right? Will the American World Service Corps lead other nations to build similar armies?

Thursday, October 15, 2009
President uses “Nobel's mo” to change the world
(1 comments) One person doesn't make peace. One person can add momentum, or lead “people,” toward peace. America's economy is shaky, the world's in great need, and people are searching for ways to work themselves out of the inherited mess. To address all that, Obama should use his “Nobel Mo” to implement the American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals to turn the mess around. If not now, when?

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Rethinking America's Involvement
(2 comments) As the world tumbles from crisis to crisis, we need to rethink more than just Afghanistan. How about our military involvement that is breaking our economy? Our belittled diplomacy? Our public policy understanding? Kennedy's laudable National Service Act was a start, but too small to address looming crises. The answer? Involve 21 million Americans in voluntary national service, as the American World Service Corps would do.

Sunday, July 5, 2009
The Next Needed Greatest Generation
These words ring even louder today. Today, however, we need to field robust working teams that improve America and the freedom of man. "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." JFK inaugural 1961

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Open Letter to General Contractor Barack Obama
(1 comments) America needs rebuilding. Our general contractor drives well to the hoop, but hasn't driven many nails. Luckily, how many nails he's driven is not important. What's important is the character and experience of the crews he must inspire over the years to build our New Foundation. As the foundations of our infrastructure, finance, and ethics crumble, our worker' skills and character are about to be tested as seldom before.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Education for the long run - Raising our public policy IQ for generations to come
(4 comments) Do we walk enough in troubled neighbors' shoes? Taste the experiences of the unemployed, poorly schooled, homeless, refugeed? We elect public policy doers who impact such experiences. Until MANY, MANY more walk miles in others' shoes, our public policies will not be as good as they should. The AWSC Congressional Proposals build on the GIVE and Serve America Proposals by GOING BIG ENOUGH to make us as smart as we should be.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Need revenues? Add a few flush tax brackets
When today's wealth accumulation is more concentrated than in 1999, when the richest 1% (about 2.7 million people) has as much to spend after taxes as the bottom 100 million, isn't it time to go back and add a top tax bracket or two that worked?

Friday, January 30, 2009
Investing in a peaceful future through an escrowed AWSC account
Our military teams achieve Herculean feats. Until we field robust nation building teams, our troops will too often face bloody feats. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals provides creative financing mechanisms that funds armies of peace, whose feats all admire. Push your Congressional representatives to join Congresswoman Woolsey in cosponsoring the AWSC Congressional proposals.

Friday, January 23, 2009
Why Build the American World Service Corps?
(7 comments) About a third of the world has been left behind--living in fear and poverty. Planting seeds among them are crazed terrorists who perceive Americans as evil. Manning 737 American military bases will not reverse that trend. America needs to field a 21st century American World Service Corps that builds a peaceful America and world. Implementing Peoples Lobby's AWSC Congressional Proposals builds that Corps and world.

Saturday, January 17, 2009
AWSC National Service Corps That Proves Whether, "Yes, We Still Can."
Fielding a robust AWSC National Service Corps of twenty-one million serving Americans: 1) Proves "Yes, Americans still can." 2) Helps right America's Ship of State. Implementing People's Lobby's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals, which Congresswoman Woolsey is introducing in the 111th Congress, addresses our and world needs better than any national service proposal now being considered in Congress.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
American World Service Corps robustly addresses Big Problems
We need a robust AWSC to tackle today's BIG PROBLEMS. This is the first of eight OpEds, which comprises the sections in People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Report recently submitted to the new administration. Congresswoman Woolsey has offered to introduce the AWSC Congressional Proposals in the 111th Congress, and we need your help in gaining strong bipartisan cosponsors to lead the AWSC to passage.

Monday, January 12, 2009
Carrots, Foreign Aid, Brown v. Board of Education and Israel /Palestine.
January 12th found me at the Book Passages in Corte Madera, California listening to author Melissa Rossi talk about "What Every American Should Know about the Middle East." During the book-signing portion of the evening, I asked several American-born Israelis about People's Lobby's Israel Palestine peace building proposal, which centered on my statement regarding the elction of Barack Obama...

Monday, January 5, 2009
Yes, AWSC Can... lift the world
America has BIG PROBLEMS requiring big solutions. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals will be the largest national service program considered in this Congress. It provides choices and incentives for young and old to serve at home or abroad in governmental or nongovernmental organizations. This is the first of eight sections culled from the AWSC Report sent to some elected officials.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
World Service Corps Can Save Our Vets
Our veterans will continue being mauled physically and mentally until we make a serious effort to serve and build a more peaceful, smarter world. That safer world won't appear until we have a helluva lot more yanks peacefully and productively serving to build that saner world. Mauled vets know this. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals provides the teams that benefit our vets and the world.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Fresh President and Congress need calloused hands of Americans
"This country runs on laws. If you want to change the country, write its laws," repeated People's Lobby's founders Ed and Joyce Koupal. If implemented, People's Lobby citizen-initiated American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals will field 21 million volunteers at the grassroots level over 27 years to address people, environmental, educational needs. It is the peaceful 21st century army that proves, "Yes, we can."

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Winning strategy for Scott Ritter, Sun Tzu, and our Constitutional goal of promoting the general welfare
Americans are capable of building and leading a strategy to change the character of America's public policy to one that successfully wages peace via pushing People's Lobby's citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals. For a nation founded on "We the people..." having citizen-initiated legislation change the world should not be considered too far "out of the box."

Monday, March 17, 2008
Utopia with a peaceful army and a Forbes 2% Solution?
Would you help introduce and enact congressional legislation that would field 21 million American volunteers over the next 27 years to do good at home and abroad if it cost Middle America nothing? People's Lobby citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals will, with your help, do that.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
"Yo!... Clinton, Guillani, Obama, Romney, Edwards, McCain... You need a bigger team...
"Yo!... Clinton, Guillani, Obama, Romney, Edwards, McCain... Your campaign promises and electing a new president, even you, is not a big enough answer..." Enclosed in this Op-Ed is a robust enough answer to rebuild America's splintering foundation that relies on Americans of characters, and strengthens their ranks.

Friday, August 24, 2007
Scared, broke, and still marching to stupid wars...
We fall into wasteful wars because too few citizens understand domestic and world needs. Our most indelible educations come from first hand experiences. Moving Americans from bumper sticker analysis into meaningful world service does more than screeching complaints about the State of the World. Pressing Congress to enact PLI's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals provides indelible learning educations.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The 2% Forbes solution to a well-armed Live Earth
(1 comments) What better way to: • Create a Live Earth than by helping People's Lobby's citizen-driven non-partisan American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals become law. • Build a smarter, more peaceful Earth than by having a million productive American volunteers serving and learning in it. • Fund the American World Service Corps than to inspire the Forbes Richest 400 to finance it with just 2% of their accumulated wealth.