Article 9-International Treaty to Protect Mother Earth, April 22, 2016, Mother Earth Day, New York City, New York
We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to waging peace with the understanding that war is the greatest consumer of oil and energy, the largest contributor to ecological destruction and the most destructive force among the Human Family. War benefits only the powerful, the wealthy and the weapons industry. We will make peace a global priority, refuse to fund war machines, refuse to participate in war-making and stop glorifying war. We call to eliminate the weapons industry that lives off the misery of the victims among our relatives of the Human Family. The realization of world peace, established on the full spiritual awareness of the Oneness of the Human Family, will eliminate prejudice in all forms, including anything that causes a human being or society to feel superior to another.
We can’t stop—arms manufacturing is too important to the US economy—war is profitable until the Human Family raises up and says no more!
"The numbers should stagger anyone. According to the latest figures available from the Congressional Research Service, the United States was credited with more than half the value of all global arms transfer agreements in 2014, the most recent year for which full statistics are available. At 14%, the world’s second-largest supplier, Russia, lagged far behind. Washington’s “leadership” in this field has never been challenged. The U.S. share has fluctuated between one-third and one-half of the global market for the past two decades, peaking at an almost monopolistic 70% of all weapons sold in 2011. And the gold rush continues. Vice Admiral Joe Rixey, who heads the Pentagon’s arms sales agency, euphemistically known as the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, estimates that the weapons deals facilitated by the Pentagon topped $46 billion in 2015, and are on track to hit $40 billion in 2016."
"To be entirely accurate, there is one group of people who pay remarkably close attention to these trends — executives of the defense contractors that are cashing in on this growth market. With the Pentagon and related agencies taking in “only” about $600 billion a year — high by historical standards but tens of billions of dollars less than hoped for by the defense industry — companies like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics have been looking to global markets as their primary source of new revenue."