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Brian Bogart

Brian Bogart

A defense policy analyst at University of Oregon, Brian Bogart is the nation's first Master's degree candidate in Peace Sciences. His research tracks the official 60-year history of the United States armaments industry (Department of Defense) and trends in what President Dwight Eisenhower termed the "unwarranted influence" on government and society by what is today the world's largest industry.

In 2005, Brian launched the CampUS Strike for Peace Campaign to raise awareness of rapidly growing Department of Defense ties to schools around the world. By September 2007, his research had found more than 1,100 universities with DoD contracts in 34 countries and territories, and companies with DoD contracts in 198 nations and territories, including Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Cuba, and Syria. Brian also discovered an alarming 900% increase in defense-applied research contracts and dollars to colleges between 2000 and 2006, and new defense budget plans exceeding $1 trillion annually. (67% of our taxes for 2008 support defense-related programs.)

Brian has always been passionate about justice. "Please take down that brick wall in Berlin," he asked President Kennedy in a 1963 letter at age 7. Immediately after Kennedy's assassination, Martin Luther King became Brian's father figure and spiritual guide. In 1964, he and his mother marched with Dr. King in San Francisco. On King's passing in April 1968, Brian dedicated his life to the large-scale pursuit of global justice.

Raised by a single-household mom in the heart of Silicon Valley during the Civil Rights movement, his antiwar family found it nearly impossible to avoid defense industry-related careers. Brian left the area after turning down DoD security clearance at three jobs. Moving to Oregon to pursue higher education, he discovered DoD contracts at his school and decided to investigate the global scope and impact of the United States' defense industry and policy.

Brian Bogart advocates nontraditional approaches to today's global problems. Specifically, he focuses on the public's power of opinion to establish the appropriate US defense policy in light of the emergence of Earth as the true superpower and climate change the largest threat. Current US defense policy (Full Spectrum Dominance) clearly exists to protect an offensive and highly wasteful Cold War-era national agenda of resource acquisition, while a policy of defending the Earth's full spectrum of diversity through an agenda of global cooperation stands to be the most appropriate and lucrative choice in confronting climate change.

Science says all humans come from the same family in northeast Africa, and nature says we share the same future. Brian's work seeks to build a powerful network of popular opinion via Internet media such as YouTube; opinion that pressures public servants to meet public needs. For such ideas, Brian has been described as "today's most visionary activist, using new strategies and the latest technology to reinvent our global economy with a simple policy change that empowers humans as a family of caretakers with a common origin and purpose."

Brian Bogart has spoken widely on barriers to peace and strategies to overcome them, and has worked with countless groups, including the Center for US/USSR Initiatives, Carl Sagan's US-USSR Satellite TV Townhall project linking ten cities, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He frequently appears in radio and television interviews, and writes for the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London. His articles reach top independent news sites, including Common Dreams, CounterPunch, Truthout, OpedNews, Media Monitors Network, Online Journal, Information Clearing House, and Zmag.

Founder of IntelligentFuture.org, Brian Bogart has lived in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. He holds certificates in International Studies and Intercultural Studies, a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies/Japanese, and in 2006 received the prestigious Diversity Scholarship Award for graduate work in Peace Sciences.

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