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The Global Marshall Plan

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Examine the Plan - Part 1: The Strategy of Generosity

After a century of wars and violence, and five thousand years of the pervasive belief that the personal and societal safety can only be achieved through domination of others, it's time for a change. Considering the world wars of the 20th century, the Vietnam War, and the current Iraq war, the Network of Spiritual Progressives is calling for a fundamentally new approach. This approach emphasizes that generosity and genuine caring for others is a far more effective and morally coherent approach to human security, peace and development.

Examine the Plan - Part 2: Thoughts on the Global (and Domestic) Marshall Plan

After the second World War, General George Marshall suggested that U.S. interests would be best served by a massive project to provide aid to Western European countries, including Germany, our antagonist in the war. His proposals for relief and reconstruction were backed in the U.S., partly by our desire to make Western Europe more economically successful than Eastern Europe, which was dominated by the Soviet Union at the time. We believed that with greater economic resources, Western Europeans would not democratically elect a communist government.

Examine the Plan - Part 3: Building Support for the Global (and Domestic) Marshall Plan

We offer this plan with a commitment to humility and a conviction that the Plan will not work unless people understand that it comes from our own commitment to the wellbeing of everyone on the planet. not from a desire to advance American power or influence. Having an international agency administer the Plan makes it clear. from the start that this Plan is not another puppet for U.S. power.

We also insist that the plan be implemented with this clear message: although the West has superior technology and material success, we do not equate that with superior moral or cultural wisdom. On the contrary, our approach must reflect a deep humility and a spirit of repentance for the ways that Western cultures have dominated the planet through wars, environmental degradation, and a growing materialism and selfishness.

Q&A on The NSP version of the Global Marshall Plan

It's the best way to get out of Iraq and empower the progressive forces all over the world -- by adopting a strategy of Generosity to secure homeland security, in place of the current strategy of Domination that has led us and others into endless wars and into the fantasy of a war on terrorism that will keep justifying every future war dreamt up by the fearful and the militarists.

What is the NSP's Global (and Domestic) Marshall Plan?

Here is our version of the Global (and Domestic) Marshall Plan--and our invitation to you to get involved with us in promoting the Strategy of Generosity that is the real point of the plan. An Introduction to the Network of Spiritual Progressives’ version of
The Global Marshall Plan
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Why the NSP Version?

The Network of Spiritual Progressives believes that the Global Marshall Plan is the best way to get out of Iraq and empower the progressive forces all over the world. How? By adopting a strategy of Generosity to secure homeland security, instead of the current strategy of Domination. Why? Because the current strategy has only led us into endless wars, and promoted the fantasy of a "War on Terrorism"-a fantasy that will justify every future war dreamt up by the fearful and the violent.
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