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We worked towards a convergent view of the many threads of wisdom and brilliance already present in the world – with our own twists.

The ideas in the State of the Union Address 2008 are part of a fabric that has existed throughout Western and Eastern thought, with the modern, practical details provided by our most brilliant thinkers.

You may recognize these ideas - but their organization is purely ours, and we alone are responsible for their portrayal in text and film.

Students may find the following references useful:

• A World Free of Nuclear Weapons by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn
• Arbor Day Foundation
• At War With Time by Craig Eisendrath
• Blood and Oil by Michael Klare
• Bush League Diplomacy by Craig Eisendrath
• Constitution of the United States of America
• Convention on the Global Commons
• Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
• Global Commons Plan by the Global Marshall Plan Initiative
• Jubilee USA Network
• Kyoto Protocol - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change the United Nations
• Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz
• Millennium Development Goals the United Nations
• New Energy for America by the Apollo Alliance
• North-South by Willy Brandt
• ONE - The Campaign to Make Poverty History
• Project for Nuclear Awareness
• Share the World's Resources
• The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• The End of Poverty by Jeffery Sachs
• The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
• The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
• Transnational Institute
• UN Millennium Project by the United Nations Secretary-General
• Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008 by the Institute for Policy Studies
• War in Heaven by Helen Caldicott and Craig Eisendrath
• Weapons of Terror by the WMD Commission