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Establish a U.S. Department of Peace A U.S. Department of Peace is a major step in dismantling America's systemically entrenched culture of violence. ‍ I want to talk to you about waging peace. From millions of chronically traumatized children to mass incarceration to family separation at the border, the United States has no more serious problem than the problem of violence itself. And yet, even as the current administration starves the international peace-building capacities of the State Department, we have no federal platform from which to seriously wage peace domestically. We need both. Through support of my candidacy for president...

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti, Jan. 3, 2006 – Servicemembers on an important front in the global war on terror are fighting hard, but not with weapons. "We're waging peace as hard as we can," the commander of Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa told American Forces Press Service Jan. 2 here. Marine Maj. Gen. Timothy Ghormley said the command has not had to fire a shot in anger. "The French had to kill a hyena once," he said. He said Marines, airmen, sailors and soldiers in the command are strengthening and stabilizing the nations of the region. "We are setting...