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I am writing to ask for your support in our global campaign to END THE MAINSTREAM 'NORMALISATION' OF WAR IN POLITICS AND MEDIA.

As threats of harrowing new conflicts and the disastrous consequences of previous 'interventions' rage on in several countries, people across the world urgently need to come out of our shells and work together against endless war being presented as 'necessary'.

We need citizens, public figures, politicians and media workers to speak out against the grain strongly, clearly and together in favour of an urgent and permanent re-commitment to peaceful negotiations for conflict-resolution, particularly with the US president now tweeting constant swaggering threats of war escalation, including the use of apocalyptic nuclear weapons.

War must urgently become a relic of the past, a disastrous powerful-interest-driven mutation in our history that we manage to leave behind us, if humankind is to survive and progress. As long as war is judged and broadcast to be 'acceptable', as long as the vast fortunes from geopolitical warmongering rule our politics and inevitably colour our media and so our minds, humankind will remain enslaved to war and impending nuclear apocalypse.

Politics and War 'Normalisation':

* Dodgy dossiers and cherry-picked soundbites of intelligence spread round the world, made to stand up and be believed long enough to serve their purpose as pretexts for wars, then dropped hardly examined as a new conflict is presented.
 * Crossing and obliterating the line between supporting peaceful democratic reform and arming proxy forces to topple non-compliant states for self-serving goals.
 * Allowing the lucrative financial goals of major corporations, including arms and energy, to go before compassion, sanity or the truth.
 * Remaining ideologically tied to a nationalist militarist outlook that helps to maintain the status quo of the domestic social hierarchy.
 * Staying tightly closed-minded to options for peaceful solutions to conflict which interfere with elite-profiteering and power consolidation.

News Media and War 'Normalisation':

* Taking political justifications for committing mass-murder 'on humanitarian grounds' without challenging them, and then parroting as 'fact'.
 * Failing to represent the level of common people's revulsion towards the violent barbarism our governments sanction.
 * Towing the official line by 'cheering' the allotted allies and 'booing' the official enemy by using only suitably biased sources and 'experts'.
 * Failing in a conflict situation to take a broad less militarist less subjective view expressing the goal of armistice and saving all life, instead of just 'victory'.
 * Treating as 'taboo', failing completely to join any dots and shine any light on the shady links between corporate war-profiteering and political power.
 * Failing to represent the great sense of unity people in the main feel for all other humans and instead varying the compassion element to reports depending if dealing with official 'good guys' or 'bad guys'.
 * Citizens are topped up to the max on fantasies and nonsense: competitions in singing, cooking, dance; obsession with celebrities, soaps, dramas and sport. The pursuit to consider reality, through already biased war-'normalising' news, has to battle for one's attention with that.

We need the overwhelming global public desire for peaceful coexistence and conflict resolution to have its rightful place at the heart of international politics and reporting on international conflicts, replacing the current constant implication that war is an 'acceptable part of life'. And we need this change to happen Urgently before fingers reach for increasingly 'normal' red buttons.

As a politician, media worker, or someone with a public voice, we call on you to please take this message to your own heart and let it reawaken and ignite compassion and sanity in your work. And we call on you to share this widely with colleagues in your own unique way, and by sharing the step-back.org website.

Specifically, we ask news creators and politicians at all levels to use your uniquely pivotal position in society to whistleblow and to challenge the systemic acceptance of top-down pro-war thinking. You are in a uniquely privileged and powerful position to bring about the change we most urgently need, by sensing and bringing into effect a clear distance between on the one hand the nefarious interests of powerful groups and individuals who profit from war, and on the other the pursuance of truthfulness, sanity and peace. Please dig deep, beyond career interests, to feel in yourselves the needs and support of billions of peace-seeking children, women and men around the world in order to take the initiative to forge a new future, by ending the insane groupthink 'normalisation' of war. We need you instead to raise to prominence the critical need for compassionate peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Together we can Make War History.

Step Back … from War Insanity

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