Assange, Pilger says, has not only been a victim of persecution from the US and other states, from which he was granted political asylum – or, a place to remain arbitrarily ‘holed-up’ for 6 years, according to two UN rulings… What troubles Pilger more is the “Vichy journalism”, of which he gives numerous examples, that has served to aggregate lies and smear that would demolish public support for Wikileaks, and deflect us from reading the content of their publications. If we would only read them now, we might be skeptical about journalists describing a war hawk as “the icon of our generation”…

Even more disturbingly, Pilger reminds us that it was two Guardian journalists, David Leigh and Luke Harding, who recklessly published the password to the trove of USG cables while Wikileaks was in the process of redacting them. That instantly gave criminals and intelligence agencies around the world, including those of repressive states, the information they needed to pursue whistleblowers and dissidents. Like Madelene Albright, they may have said: “It was worth it”, to place Wikileaks in such a terrible situation.

Pilger read statements from Assange’s family, concerning his deteriorating state of health, and from ‘Women Against Rape’, who are appalled at being manipulated by bogus claims that undermined the credibility of Assange and Wikileaks.

We have been quick to forget that Julian Assange received many international awards for “outstanding contribution to journalism”; including here in Australia, where he won a Walkley and the Sydney Peace Foundation medal. What’s fresh in our minds though, is that in the last few years, we have been spied upon and profiled; then flooded and manipulated by fake news. We know that our grass roots communications were poisoned by military-grade Information Operations.

Cambridge Analytica wasn’t “Vichy journalism”. They, and their hidden, offshore affiliates were paid by the likes of Trump and the British alt-right to “inject [damned lies] into the bloodstream of the internet”, that would terrify and divide us. And ironically, via the very platforms we had brilliantly used to make truthful information from organisations like Wikileaks ‘go viral’. That had united us like never before. What was different, and equally unprecedented in the turn-around, was that we weren’t all being delivered the same information or political offer. It varied, according to what was known about our personalities, religious affiliations, ‘likes’ and any other information we had shared, or could be obtained.

The inventor of the world-wide-web, Sir Tim Berners Lee, a CERN scientist at the time, offered a remarkable service to humanity. He gave it away for free, so that every citizen could eventually have an equal voice, and the same, unlimited access to information – and of course what Wikileaks did was very consistent with this vision. I’m not sure that Berners Lee’s immediate intention was to foster true democracy, but almost 30 years down the track, he is deeply concerned about that now. He says: ““Targeted advertising allows a campaign to say completely different, possibly conflicting things to different groups. Is that democratic?”. Noting that his dream of ‘net neutrality’ has also become a thing of the past, Berners Lee has recently called for a Magna Carta for the web.

Meanwhile, back in Australia, Bernard Keane, the political editor of ‘Crikey’, warns us in his article: ‘An Incomplete List of Evidence that Australia is becoming a Police State’, about a wide legal net that has been thrown over what we are allowed to know. He states:

“You can be prosecuted for viewing, sharing and republishing Wikileaks-style leaked governments documents unless you can prove you believed the information would not “cause harm to Australia’s interests”.

And coming soon before parliament:

“an expansion of the government’s powers to plant malware on phones and computers to undermine encryption.”

End of an era? I am stepping it up again to defend Wikileaks; and my advice, whatever you believe about its founder, is that you should too. It’s not only Assange that needs saving, but let’s not forget that he too offered humanity a remarkable, free public service. The truth of Wikileaks was solid evidence that governments lie. The truth of subsequent whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden and Chris Wylie was that they not only lie, but spy on us all, and employ AI professionals to tailor their lies to our individual weaknesses. We’re in deep (state) shit now. Everyone of us is in the firing line of ‘Weaponised AI Propaganda’, and our right to know is being bombarded by prohibitive legislation.

Information still wants to be free – especially when it is being hidden for the wrong reasons – and we couldn’t be in more need than now, of that ‘herd inoculation’ Wikileaks provided against disinformation. Let’s encourage each other to get a booster shot, by sharing John Pilger’s important message.

Cambridge Analytica: how big data-assisted behavioural micro-targeting facilitated the Trump & Brexit victories

Speaking at a Sydney event last month, Cathy Vogan, founder of thing2thing.com and author of ‘The Wikileaks Tapes’, offered a comprehensive view of how the use of behavioural micro-targeting, big data and psychometrics by Cambridge Analytica got Donald Trump elected and led to a vote for Brexit.

Vogan opened by addressing some of the claims made by Hillary Clinton in a 2017 interview on Australia’s ABC TV, giving Julian Assange the right of response to Clinton’s question: “Why doesn’t Wikileaks ever publish anything about Russia?”. Assange’s answer was: “Wikileaks has published over 800,000 documents about Russia, most of them critical”. The ABC journalist had left the question hanging in the air.

Clinton suggested that Wikileaks had been involved in the spread of “awful stories… the worst of which was ‘Pizzagate’”. Vogan cross-cut to John Pilger and Assange discussing the content of the Podesta emails: weapons deals that ended in arming ISIS, pay-for-play with dictators via the Clinton Foundation and the death of tens of thousands of Lybians, which she suggested would help her presidential campaign.

Vogan’s take on the 2016 US elections would not involve Russians or Wikileaks, but perception management by what Slavoj Žižek refers to as a “cognitive-industrial-complex.

There were claims by Micah Lee in ‘The Intercept’ of a ‘Nazi-Soviet Pact’ moment between Assange and the Trump campaign. When Trump Jr made his Twitter communications public, it appeared someone with access to the Wikileaks Twitter handle had communicated with him. Lee, assuming for us that it was the editor-in-chief, wrote:

“An organisation with a sterling reputation for providing the public with accurate information about secret government and corporate activities was used to launder conspiracy theories that helped elect a racist, sexual predator president of the United States.”

Vogan’s exposé on Cambridge Analytica concluded on a similar note. An audience member at their show in Germany pointed out to the CEO, Alexander Nix, that there is no glory in assisting a “misogynist buffoon into power… who is fucking up our lives” [audience cheers].

There was no mention of Pizzagate in the Trump Jr DMs, but the Intercept amplified the accusation Clinton made on ABC Australia, that Wikileaks’ co-orchestrated the spread of “preposterous conspiracy theories”. Lee’s article proved more effective than the Russian narrative in deflecting attention away from the content of Podesta’s emails, since it damaged trust in the organisation, rendered supporters vulnerable to propaganda and turned some into enemies.

He said no, he forgets and I'm saying nothing...

“the hacked emails were used to reverse-engineer preposterous conspiracy theories, like the imaginary pedophilia scandal called Pizzagate”

Hacked means extracted via the internet. Former NSA technical director, William Binney, and his team from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have interpreted the forensic evidence available. They reported that the rate of transfer of the data could only have been on to a USB stick. That suggested the files were copied in-house, not hacked. Ignoring conflicting evidence, Lee adhered to the DNC’s hacking narrative and Clinton’s claim that there was nothing incriminating in the Podesta emails. He also aroused suspicion of ulterior motive behind their release, the editor-in-chief’s alleged partisan allegiance.

The idea of the truth-teller in league with a serial liar was too much for some to assimilate with their values and those of the Wikileaks-inspired transparency movement. In the eyes of many Wikileaks supporters, political chicanery and opportunism was perceived in the (alleged) machiavellian tactics employed by Assange in his support for Trump’s ascendency to the White House. It was sadly reminiscent for them of the cynical act of betrayal in Stalin’s signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact (“The Devil’s Alliance”) in 1939, which had a demoralising effect and also broke up the “movement” of anti-fascist Popular Fronts.

Barrett Brown, one of Wikileaks most heroic and prominent allies, who went to jail for 4 years for co-ordinating the supply of material to Wikileaks, compared their communications with the Trump campaign advisor, to those that preceded the taking over of Poland. He was done with the movement; but there were still people saying: “Why Everyone Should Do What WikiLeaks Did”, offering a broader perspective on the organisation’s activities and a different angle on the Trump Jr DMs.

The Intercept had made a point about Wikileaks ‘sleeping with dogs’, and damaging their support base, but none of this pointed to Russia, or towards the real problem of ‘What Happened’ to two democracies. Oxford & Washington university studies do; Tim Berners Lee does; and so do pending legal proceedings against Cambridge Analytica.

In the longer term, it may not be about who’s supporting whom; or financial corruption; or excess spending – as the current thrusts of Transatlantic political and legal enquiry would suggest. Money issues are simply the most viable way in at the moment. But the freshly-launched British Electoral Commission enquiry, into excessive Leave EU campaign spending and collaboration between multiple campaigns, can at best, only point to everyone spending their money in the same shop. They are not tackling the more serious problem of what that shop is selling.

The case of Professor David Caroll vs Cambridge Analytica takes us much closer to the heart of the problem that ‘we the people’ now have. It concerns an individual’s privacy, and promises to be a landmark case, if sufficiently funded.

Professor David Carroll vs Cambridge Analytica (via SCL parent company)

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Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the world wide web, is worried that the democratic platform he gifted humanity with is failing. He lashes out at Facebook & Twitter for facilitating the spread of misinformation and condemns the trafficking of “weaponised AI propaganda”. The term comes from Berit Anderson’s “The Rise of Weaponised AI Propaganda’, which Vogan cites in her exposé of Cambridge Analytica:

“By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion. Many of these technologies have been used individually to some effect before, but together they make up a nearly impenetrable voter manipulation machine that is quickly becoming the new deciding factor in elections around the world.”

The use of armies of bots has been proven, by Oxford University researchers into computational propaganda, to have had a profound effect in setting the agenda for political debate during the 2016 US Presidential campaign. In fact it “throttled out” the voice of humans and gave such a false sense of source diversity and consensus, they largely followed its lead. Of particular interest in that study, is that the technology is open to anyone. There was a chain reaction to the bots among ordinary citizens.

“… democratisation of online propaganda is also an especially salient issue. While government departments, academics, and journalists continue to search for evidence that campaigns used these means to manipulate public opinion, they tend to ignore the fact that anyone can launch a bot or spread fake news online. It was these citizen-built bots that probably accounted for the largest spread of propaganda, false information, and political attacks during the 2016 election.”

Indeed the ‘hive-mind’ has become The Wild West, and The Law has not yet ridden into town. The Oxford study revealed more inter-connectedness between the Trump campaign and its citizen-generated bot networks, than with those associated with the Clinton campaign. Maybe that was because so many DNC supporters preferred to “Feel the Bern”, and the party was divided – or maybe they were more scrupulous. The study shows, in any case, that citizen recruitment in the spread of false information and propaganda is the principle catalyst for political chaos in the UK and the US.

A foreign power, and Wikileaks, may or may not have influenced the outcomes of the US elections, but domestic armies of bots and bot-meisters did much more so. To focus so much on foreign influence, we risk to assume that anything local is fair game, even when technology is used by Everyman to disinform and persuade. Theoretically, we can all play, but it is no longer an even playing field when humans are being driven or drowned out by armies of propaganda bots. Tim Berners Lee also believes that highly-funded dark political messaging threatens democracy and net neutrality:

“We have these dark ads that target and manipulate me and then vanish because I can’t bookmark them. This is not democracy – this is putting who gets selected into the hands of the most manipulative companies out there,”

Cambridge Analytica boasts the use of ‘dark strategy’ for the Trump campaign – that practice of dividing the political offer on the basis of information obtained about the target’s personality type. On their advice, the Leave EU campaigns did the same, sending a billion psychologically tailored messages to the British public. Both were were focusing on those who were undecided about their vote, and thus ‘persuadable’.

The Russian troll influence has been exposed in the US, via targeted social media advertising – for a very nominal sum of money. Their targeting techniques are being exposed as shocking, but as if they apply uniquely within the Russian context. The elephant in the room is that the Trump and Brexit campaigns spent millions using the same techniques! Figure it out. Is it not our own back yards that been occupied, and that are sorely in need weeding?

Dark Strategy on Facebook - the dividing of the political offer

Considering that the company who persuaded impressionable people to vote Trump and Leave EU, themselves claim to have a 25 year record of performing similar psychological operations on populations for governments around the world, I suggest that ‘What Happened’ in the US and UK is more akin to a military coup, primarily funded by the playful and principled western oligarch – Robert Mercer, and that his ‘MI6 for Hire’ people at SCL need to be stopped, before they break any more democracies.

What we should be examining is the abuse of power, in locating and propagandising impressionable people, and those who could be identified as ignorant of politics. This would have made targets of the BeLeave campaign, who were very young, especially vulnerable to manipulation.

One is suddenly reminded of Assange’s words in 2013, during his Australian Wikileaks Party campaign speech:

“When all of the communications – heart-felt – the inner core of our life – communications between boyfriends and girlfriends – between husbands and wives, sons and daughters – between business partners – even between bureaucracies and states – when all of those communications are swept up, hoovered up, into a vast collection apparatus – indexed and stored for all time – available only to a select few – then we are in a situation where we have a tank on the street of the inner core of our lives – a soldier under the bed, listening…”

It’s not sure Assange anticipated what the “select few” would say back to the masses, after the indexing of that vast collection was complete. He knows now.

Extract

“I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 – the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter.

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo”. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies”; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.

Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever.

I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us. The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. He called it an “invisible government”.

How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile.

In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons”. People cheered and some cried. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was all fake. He was lying. The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion…”

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Filmed by Cathy Vogan at Sydney University on Tuesday March 22, 2016. Co-hosted by Sydney University Resistance Club, the Centre of Peace And Conflict Studies and Green Left Weekly.

I’m speaking as a Peace Activist and representative of the Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition in Sydney. As a grass roots supporter, I hope my presence here will help to encourage others, who feel powerless in these troubled times to realize their potential and the necessity to use their voice. I’m no different to you, I have no public profile, I am a Grandmother, wanting to leave a better world for my grandchildren to grow in. You CAN foment change; grassroots action has always enabled it. Our fight is a numbers game, so every one of you, every last one of you is needed, you are important in the struggle for truth and transparency, don’t underestimate your power in our diminishing democracy, we may only have a small window of opportunity left for us to voice our opinions in freedom.

When we hear our Government officials spruiking the company line on Julian Assange, we need to realize they are not speaking to the informed. Their rhetoric is for the uninformed, or the misinformed, we can all help to counter their mischief by informing people of the facts readily found in the public domain. Thanks to freedom of information requests we know there is a document that outlines the pat replies to be used by our representatives when constituents ask tricky questions about Julian Assange, nice to know our representatives aren’t trusted to think for themselves. So be brave, because they’re not. Start conversations with friends, relatives and work mates; the truth is far too important to let it be denied us. You can also donate via wikileaks.org, Bendigo Bank or post a cheque to help them keep up their vital work.

This quote by Julian Assange, nutshells the reason for chain wars, where one is started up before the last one is out. “Looking at the enormous quantity and diversity of these military or intelligence apparatus insider documents, what I see is a vast sprawling estate in what we would traditionally call the Military Intelligence Complex or Military Industrial Complex. And this sprawling industrial estate is growing, becoming more and more secretive, becoming more and more uncontrolled. This is not a sophisticated conspiracy controlled at the top, this is a vast movement of self interest with thousands and thousands of players all working together and against each other to produce an end result which is Iraq and Afghanistan and Columbia, and keeping that going.”

Our taxes feed a war machine. This is what peace activists are up against.

Harking back to the title of this forum, it is interesting that Julian Assange was called a ‘high-tech terrorist’ by Vice President Joe Biden for, as Holly Tannen said: ‘conspiracy to commit journalism’, and informing us how our tax dollars pay for aggressive wars we have been and are currently involved in. According to Fred Burton of Stratfor: “Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever.” And taking bizarre to a new level, the 9/11 Coloring Book with terrorist trading cards featuring Julian Assange; I kid you not. Now, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks staff and supporters have been labeled ‘enemies of the state’. That’s you and I, folks. That’s something we should ask our Government to speak to the US about. Keeping this in mind, the mainstream media and Governments have a massive platform to disseminate their hubris. It is beholden on us to correct their tripe and today’s forum is part of that. Whenever we engage our politicians or members of the public, we need to affirm that Julian Assange is a journalist and editor-in-chief, and that WikiLeaks is a publishing press and media outlet. STATE IT!

Wikileaks publications - It's time to open the archives

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We have access to a cache of documents that activists can use to fact check Government’s myth making, and counter them with the expansive source documents available to us through wikileaks.org. These documents enable us all to be our own journalists with access to information once deemed for their eyes only. WikiLeaks disclosures are source documents. I guarantee WikiLeaks will be studied in higher educational facilities long into the future; long after the current regime is gone both in the United States and at home. The Afghan and Iraq releases should be mandatory reading for those that blindly support the call to war with jingoistic nationalism. We need to understand the reality; we need to know Special Force’s assassination squads are kicking in doors of Afghan families in the dead of night, murdering women and children. We need to know the civilian death toll drones are inflicting on the long-suffering people of Waziristan. We need to know of the systematic torture that occurs seemingly with no checks, balances or international over-site in black op sites across the planet.

Without this information freely available to us, how is it is possible to understand what is in our national interest and done in our name? How can we possibly make informed decisions without the knowledge as to whether our allies comply with international law regarding war crimes, invasions, occupations and genocide? We have been told, by Nicola Roxon and Julia Gillard, that the release of war documents is dangerous. I ask them, more dangerous than war itself? This, among other statements by other senior government members, is ridiculous. The winds of war change rapidly and most documents are historical by the time of release. They are also carefully redacted. No harm has been caused to innocent people. The harm that is caused by WikiLeaks is to the integrity of governments and the valour of war. The West does not have a monopoly on democracy and human rights. The fact we are here today is testimony to that, and it is naive to believe otherwise given the wealth of evidence to the contrary. John Pilger said: “It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth. No it’s not; it’s journalism”. Thankfully the world now has a people’s free press publishing organization to help level the playing field of knowledge, but the US is not amused, nor do they play nice.

So, raise your voice in defense of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange for all kinds of reasons: the environment, Indigenous people, Corporate Media… the list goes on, but I’m speaking today as a peace activist. War is terror by state on a massive scale. The US use depleted uranium and cluster munitions, foul weapons that continue killing innocent people, long after a conflict is over. The Australian Government’s subservience to the US runs deeper than a Prime Minister, all dewy eyed over them. While claiming the moral high ground on cluster munitions, our Government did the United States’ bidding behind the scenes, to convince other countries not to sign. This unconscionable act was outed by WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks documents inform in bare facts the truth of modern war, giving lie to the pretense that we fight for humanitarian reasons. The fate of civilians in a war torn country is much grimmer than that of a combatant. In days of yore 90% of deaths in war were combatants, now 90% of deaths are non-combatants, one third of which are children. Has anyone heard that from our elected officials? How is that helping? Shouldn’t we know we are slaughtering women and children?

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War these days is sold like any commodity, in sound bites and catchy platitudes, and we have been told so many times that we have turned a corner in Afghanistan. It’s obvious we’re going nowhere just trying to add to the US’s prestige. Our Government never tells us what we have learned from WikiLeaks. They are aware we would not tolerate the reality of the situation and like Lady Macbeth, we have blood on our hands.

Being privy to WikiLeaks documents on post 9/11 wars, for the first time in history, we are in a position to make informed decisions regarding our willingness to engage in aggressive imperialist wars, essentially killing civilians. Australia has wantonly participated in brutal, unnecessary conflicts not in the name of freedom and democracy, but US sycophancy. Successive governments can’t seem to say no to the US. Yes, we are allies and we expect to remain so, but this war is not in our national interest, and against the wishes of the Australian people. This is how a mature, sovereign nation would couch their refusal to murder poor people in their own country and steal their resources. Similar wording should be used to our ally regarding Julian Assange. It is becoming overtly apparent that our Government’s idea of the national interest is in conflict with our own.

Last week I spoke with the Afghan Peace Volunteers and they asked what can they do to help Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. I suggested they become a FOWL group and they agreed. For those that aren’t aware FoWL, it is friends of WikiLeaks. If these young people in a war torn country are willing to raise their voices because they know WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are good and true, surely their bravery can be copied here in a land where death does not stalk us on a daily basis. We need to rally, use social media, talk, write, telephone, visit our representatives, the media and anyone else who is willing to listen, in order to correct the untruths. The government has to be shown we are not going away and our numbers are growing. Tell our Government we demand to live in a free democracy, and as part of that democracy, free speech and freedom of the press is an axiom. Isn’t this the reason we were told that Iraq and Afghanistan were invaded? As is said: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Well, Julian Assange may well be considered trash to the US, but he is our national treasure. Demand your Government does its job and protects our fellow citizen, Editor-in-Chief of Wikileaks and award-winning journalist Julian Assange, from a brutal totalitarian regime and rogue State, the USA.

Gail Malone, Peace Activist, at Wikileaks Forum, Adelaide

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Statement from the Afghan Peace Volunteers in the 11th year of US/ NATO war:

Dear Wikifriends, Stop the War Coalition and other friends,

We thank you all for the work that you do for a more transparent, just and peaceful world! After 11 years of the U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan, and the three decades of war before that, we are very tired of the killings. This war cannot stop the war. This human method of war doesn’t work.

Afghans have a saying that “blood cannot wash away blood” and we’ve witnessed and experienced its truth, daily. The US has lost 2,000 of their soldiers. Afghans have lost at least 2 million loved ones over the past four decades of war.

Stop.

Stop the killings. Stop the mutual bloodshed. Stop spending two billion US dollars a week just on killing. Stop the drones. Stop the use of depleted uranium. Stop.

Ordinary Afghans don’t need more weapons or more war. We need food, water, shelter and clothing. We need education, health care and decent livelihoods for all. We also need friends. We wish to remember the 2 million Afghan victims of war by finding 2 million friends for peace in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Peace Volunteers ask for a ceasefire from all warring groups. We want peace, the peace which is the colour, soul and jewel of life, without which we live bearing fears and worries, and without which life has little meaning.

In 2010, we the Afghan Peace Volunteers inscribed our beliefs and hopes on a plaque that sits at the entrance of Bamiyan Peace Park in the centre of Afghanistan:

“Why not love? Why not bring peace? Even a little of our love is stronger than the wars of the world.”

The Afghan Peace Volunteers

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