Key Intervention Points For Peace

Here are steps you can engage in to move the clock toward peace. 

Below are four categories to engage in further.

You can affect each one of these categories by looking for key intervention points, though some are more accessible than others.
We will be adding more resources soon for how to plug in and change these systems.

Industry: The Military Industrial Complex and more.

• Weapons companies’ executives, board members, business managers, etc.
• Weapons companies’ high-paid engineers.
• Weapons companies’ mid-level wage office workers.
• Weapons companies’ machinists and other manual laborers.
• Medium sized companies who are deeply connected to military industry but don’t directly participate in the making of weapons: for instance Eleos, an Israeli AI company with executives in the IDF that generates transcripts of therapy sessions.
• Companies who contract with businesses like Eleos - mental health groups paying Israeli-military-linked AI firm to generate transcripts of therapy sessions.
• Megacorporations like Google who have some divisions directly involved in the military industry and some divisions that are–nominally–entirely civilian.
• Truckers
• Dock Workers
• Workers in charge of procurement.

Foundational agreements: Treaties, laws, business agreements — what has to be changed in these agreements?

• Contracts between weapons companies and the federal government.
• Lobbying is effectively legalized bribery.
• Federal employees at the highest level of the military and security state are allowed to work at weapons companies or as lobbyists immediately after retirement.
• The Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind Act, Section 9528, requires public schools to give military recruiters access to students at school and access to students' contact information.
• NATO
• AUKUS
• QUAD
• The American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact.
• Complete lack of Space and Cyber Treaties.
• Almost complete lack of nuclear treaties.
• No treaties between adversarial nations to protect against existential geopolitical risks.

Relationships that are feeding the drive toward war, or that could help to alleviate the dangers.

• Antony Blinken-Sergei Lavrov: apparently no dialogue between the two at all. Russia has said they are open to dialogue.
• Donald Trump-Elon Musk: Musk is a major military contractor, but he also has a major market for Tesla in China.
• Personal relationships you can build with diplomats, machinists in the arms industry, soldiers, people in the media, and academia
• The relationships students have with recruiters.
• College Students may have very little influence over their administrators’ decisions on divestment from the Israeli or American militaries, or in certain cases they may have a lot of influence.

Cultural beliefs and paradigms, and how to change them.

• It is weak to talk to foreign leaders who are not from vassal countries.
• Talking to vassals takes no smarts at all, talking to adversaries takes the strength to put the good of humanity over one’s own ego.
• America often intervenes outside our borders for humanitarian reasons or to help solve problems.
• America has killed 4.5 million people over the last 24 years alone, far more than any other country on earth. The Pentagon has “lost” trillions of dollars over these two decades. The combination of this kind of corruption, this kind of death toll, and the amount of lies advocates of war have told does not inspire confidence that humanitarianism or problem-solving are anywhere near the top of the list of objectives.
• War is inevitable, people pursuing money and power over everything else is the natural state of humanity.
• There are many indigenous cultures that are and were relatively non-hierarchical, and many pockets of non-indigenous cultures that strive for that as well but are less well known than more powerful groups because they don’t seek fame. On a larger scale, the Chinese state, and China as a nation, has gained money and power due to its technological development, but has not been willing to invade another country for the sake of power, or anything else, for over 40 years.
• The false information that our media and government have provided at the outset of many wars in the past is the result of incompetence and occasionally corruption.
• The level of misinformation that has led to justifying wars is so systematic that every future justification for war should be questioned to an extreme degree.