To everyone out there who seriously favors peace and is willing to be part
of the solution:
The Peace Prescription: Five Key Steps We Can Take to Prevent Wars is
officially published today. Amazingly and appropriately, the shipment of the
first printing of books arrived late yesterday, exactly as planned.
Everyone can now go to the Order page of this website and order copies of
that book, and of one of my previous books, Jump-Starting America: The
Grass-Roots Revolution.

The whole idea of The Peace Prescription is that only we at the grass-roots
have the ability to push for the Peace Law and the other four of the Five
Steps needed to gain a Peace Maintenance Environment around the world,
perhaps as soon as in a single generation of some 25 to 30 years. Waiting
for governments, international organizations, and politicians to bring
lasting peace to the world by themselves hasn't worked over the millennia of
human existence, so that's not even a viable option.

Just as a British doctor ended up saving many millions of lives by insisting
that the cow-pox virus could be used to make a small-pox vaccine, I'm
pushing for the Five Steps that all of us can take as a kind of immunization
against war. Because something that is advocated sounds unlikely, or even
preposterous, doesn't make it so. The British doctor was roundly ridiculed,
but persisted and succeeded. Thomas Edison failed over 10,000 times to make
a properly working electric light bulb, and when asked about that, he
replied, "I've discovered 10,000 ways how not to make a light bulb." He then
persisted and succeeded. When Mahatma Gandhi led demonstrations for India's
independence from British colonial rule, many scoffed at the prospects of
his peaceful methods in opposition to the powerful British military. He
persisted and succeeded.

Welcome to this blog. I look forward to your comments. I realize it will
take time until very many of you will have read the book. I welcome
translators who can help make The Peace Prescription available in other
languages as ebooks, and eventually as printed books.

This is the first step of the journey. As we know from the ancient wisdom of
Lao-tzu, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Ed Marshall