New York, NY, September 18, 2025 – Saturday, September 20, 2025, Times Square will transform into a hub for global peace when Pause the World for Peace and May Peace Prevail On Earth International (MPPOE) unite forces to honor the International Day of Peace. The event, held from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM, invites people in Times Square and around the world to participate in a day of unity, compassion, and collective visioning for a peaceful world.

In partnership with Good News Corporation and founder Paul Sladkus, participants will be invited to “plant” a virtual Peace Pole on the world map at www.plantpeace.worldpeace.org/, sharing their personal message for peace.

The day will also feature a powerful World Peace Flag Ceremony, led by MPPOE at 4pm Easten, honoring the 193 nations of the United Nations while uplifting the universal message: May Peace Prevail On Earth.

“Peace and Mother Earth Lovers, there are billions of you—let’s celebrate,” said Paul Sladkus, Founder of Good News Corporation. “Plant a Peace Pole—virtually or physically. Imagine 8 billion Peace Poles around the world! Together, let’s make this vision of global peace visible and real.”

Since 2002, Sladkus and Good News Corporation have supported the International Day of Peace, hosting Peace Vigils in New York’s Central Park and producing media to uplift the voices of peace. Today, their efforts connect with MPPOE’s decades-long mission of spreading peace through Peace Poles, an initiative launched in Japan by Masahisa Goi after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who envisioned Peace Poles planted in every corner of the world. To date, more than 200,000 Peace Poles have been planted across the globe.

“By inviting people to plant Peace Poles—whether in their communities or virtually—we’re giving the world something tangible to focus collective intention and energy on peace,” said Fumi Johns Stewart, Executive Director of MPPOE. “When people plant Peace Poles inscribed with the message, May Peace Prevail On Earth, we raise the consciousness of our global family to think and act in the Spirit of Peace.”

The event in Times Square is a call for peace, unity, and action. A Global Silent Minute for Peace will be observed at 12 Noon. This initiative reminds us that peace is possible—when we choose it together.

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NYC City Hall, JOIN US, HOLDING A PEACE OR MOTHER EARTH SIGN

Friday, September 19, 2025, 11 AM – 12 Noon

Times Square, New York City
Saturday, September 20, 2025
11:15 AM – 4:30 PM

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For more information and to plant your Peace Pole, visit: www.plantpeace.worldpeace.org

Good News Corporation – A nonprofit, est. 2002, producing the International Day of Peace and Earth Day Concerts since 2002 in Central Park and Times Square.  www.pausetheworldforpeace.org. Our 2025 Earth Day Concert had 1.5+ million live views, https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/05/14/earth-day-sizzle-reel-from-times-square-april-22-2025/   WE SEEK 8 BILLION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE.

May Peace Prevail on Earth:  The May Peace Prevail On Earth movement is a grassroots global movement to inspire, and re-awaken the inherent consciousness of love, peace, and harmony which exists in every one of us. It is a movement to bring inner peace of mind and to foster peace in the world at large. www.worldpeace.org

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Good News Corporation, est 2002, nonprofit and Partners are trying to accomplish a WORLDWIDE FIRST FOR PEACE DAY.  

We want to create a MOMENT/MEDITATIVE MINUTE OF SILENCE AT NOON on Friday September 19th IN NYC CITY HALL with Mayor Adams, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and many others throughout NYC Schools, Administrative Departments and NYC ENTIRE Community and METRO AREA. Saturday September 20th in Times Square and Sunday September 21st WORLDWIDE WHERE EVER YOU ARE, as this is the official UN International Day of Peace. Why?

The United Nations, 193 Member Countries agreed to a September 21st, Noon Minute of Silence, in 2002. To have CEASE FIRES EVERYWHERE IN WAR FIELDS, OUR STREETS, OUR HOMES…CREATE ACTS OF PEACE… Good News Corporation and billions are aware of the request according to McKinsey. Good News Corporation and Partners are “MAKING IT A REALITY” and has continued doing so since 2002.  

This year with your help and Ringo Starr, Virtually we will broadcast this 24 HOUR WORLD MOMENT/MEDITATIVE MINUTE OF SILENCE AND PLANT USING AI A PEACE POLE EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD and broadcast on www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast LIVE and www.pausetheworldforpeace.org. JOIN US. WE ARE ONE. 

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We still need donations to pay for all we are creating for this World’s largest Peace and Climate Week Concert in Times Square. We thank our partner, Manhattan Borough President, Mark Levine and our co-producers OMMM. So many more to thank, so please go to www.pausetheworldforpeace.org to see the latest and greatest, heha!

We LOVE YOU, in the name of Peace and Mother Earth…let’s celebrate on September 21, 2024 and every moment after noon should be PEACEFUL.  www.peacedayparty.org is our dream, the whole world having a PEACEFUL PARTY….

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The 2023 Global Peace Index released its annual ranking of the most peaceful countries in the world.

The Institute for Economics and Peace 2023 study measured a country’s level of negative peace using three domains of peacefulness:

• Ongoing domestic and international conflict
• Societal safety and security
• Militarization

Overall the index found that the world is a little less safe than last year, due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — which is unchanged from the 2022 survey results.

While the United States ranked 131 on the list, seven out of the top 10 most peaceful countries in the world are in Europe.

Denmark is the second most peaceful country in the world.

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No. 1 most peaceful country in the world: Iceland

Iceland has remained the most peaceful country in the world since the study was first released in 2008.

It also ranks as the third happiest country in the world, after Finland and Denmark.

More than 60% of the country’s population lives in the capital city of Reykjavik, according to National Geographic,

In Iceland, school is free for all Icelanders through college, and every student is taught to speak Danish and English.

Top 10 most peaceful countries in the world

1. Iceland
2. Denmark
3. Ireland
4. New Zealand
5. Austria
6. Singapore
7. Portugal
8. Slovenia
9. Japan
10. Switzerland

The second country on the list is Denmark.

Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, is home to institutions such as the Copenhagen Stock Exchange and serves as a hub connecting Northern Europe with the rest of the world, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Although people living in Denmark pay some of the world’s highest taxes, up to half of their income, it is for a reason.

Due to the high taxes, Denmark can offer its citizens most healthcare options with no fee, university students pay no tuition and receive a grant to help cover expenses while studying, childcare is subsidized, and the elderly receive pensions and are provided with care helpers who visit them at home, according to the country’s website.

Ireland rounds out the top 3 most peaceful countries in the world.

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Ireland rounds out the top three.

After Great Britain, Ireland is Europe’s second largest island. Ireland is known for its lush, green fields hence its nickname, Emerald Isle, according to National Geographic.

Ireland’s population has increased by 10 percent in the last decade, according to a report released by the Central Statistics Office. According to the report’s author, the country’s population growth is among the fastest in the European Union.

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The purpose of this book is to help readers re-imagine the world we want to create, and then inspire commitment to achieve it.

I was 94 years old when I began to write this book and 98 when it was concluded.  Often over the years, I taught seminars on the topic “This I Believe,” in which I sought to help participants examine their own deepest belief systems.  I started this book with a felt need to up-date my own deepest beliefs.  This resulted in a single first page, “My Great Affirmation.”

My Great Affirmation I am a member of the family called Human.

My home is Planet Earth.

The achievements of Humankind throughout the ages are my heritage.

Our highest priority is the common global good.

We choose to make war obsolete and nuclear weapons relics, as we rebalance the thin membrane of atmosphere around Planet Earth.

Only as we lift others up, rather than tear others down, can our survival and destiny be realized.

We create a governing structure, a United States of Earth, that makes our planet One— Sustainable, Peaceful, Just.

Our destiny is bound to that of all humanity and the web of life on Planet Earth. What we create together forms our bequest to the next thousand generations.

The book emerged from that one-page seed vision.  More broadly, it emerged from a lifetime of searching widely and asking deeply how we can learn to live together “with liberty and justice for all.”

Themes and Arguments

DESTINY was written both to inspire readers with the vision of a positive destiny for humanity and to provide a practical blueprint for how to achieve a sustainable, peaceful, and just global community.  At this most important moment in human history, technology is giving us the power to remake the world into a garden of plenty.  At the same time, we face stark, global crises—climate catastrophe, the continuing threat of nuclear weapons, futile reliance on achieving “security” through military escalation, and the horror of global pandemics, as obvious examples.

What do these problems have in common?  Their solutions require global cooperation beyond national boundaries.  We must cooperate in order to survive, and we must prioritize global well-being above tribal or national advantage.  The challenge is stark:  we learn to live together, or we die together, and we are the agents who decide the future of the planet.

For the first time in history, humans can comprehend the whole—the world as a single system—and we have computers to help us manage the complexities contained in this wholeness.  We are making enormous progress.  For the first time in history, half the people of the world are middle class by local standards—no longer struggling to merely survive.

An assumption of my book is that the structures of government we enact, the cultural milieu we uphold, and the quality-of-life conditions we create either help or hinder citizens’ ability to thrive and contribute to the well-being of the whole.

In this book, I address the role religion plays on the road to destiny.  I examine each of the world’s major religions to find universal values and spiritual themes that fully support the vision of a single integrated culture, while celebrating differences.

The world’s people have advanced far down the road of affirming interdependence, as evidenced by the United Nations and its specialized agencies.  We write new global treaties, signed by two-thirds of the world’s nations, at which point they become international law.  Now is the time to take the next step and envision a federal structure for a world government with the power to tax, make laws that apply worldwide, and implement and further develop ways to resolve conflict, so that we can replace the military establishments of individual countries with a system of international peacekeepers.  I call this new level of world government the “United States of Earth.”  Indeed, international legal scholars have already gathered resources for writing a constitution for such a global federation.

The first part of the book presents the vision and explores the human accomplishments and traits that put us on the path toward our goals.  The later chapters move from vision to action, from perspective to prescription, from challenge to practical change that leads to our destiny as a single world community living at peace with justice for all.

Place of Destiny in the literature

I see this book in the tradition of literature that has attempted a holistic vision of future life on Earth.  Three books were foundational to my own global/ holistic perspective:

The Future of Man, a collection of essays byPierre Teilhard de Chardin, was published posthumously in 1964.  Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit priest, a geologist, and a paleontologist, who worked primarily in China.  He sought to integrate the disciplines of science with the insights of philosophy and religion to create an expansive vision of how humanity and the world are evolving.  I quote him in my book: “Whether we consider the rocky layer enveloping the earth, the forms of life that inhabit it, the variety of civilizations to which it has given rise, or the structure of languages spoken upon it, we are forced to the same conclusion: that everything is changing, and nothing is comprehensible except through its history.”  He concluded that human beings are also evolving.  In biological terms, we have larger brains and more developed nervous systems making empathy possible and giving us the ability to consider “the common good” above our own or that of our tribe.

Lester Brown in World Without Borders (Random House, 1972) analyzed world food production and evaluated whether we could produce enough to feed the growing population of Earth.  He reported new ways to increase crop production that offered hope for humanity, setting food production issues in the context of the global community.  I joined the World Futurist Society at Lester Brown’s personal invitation.

Buckminster Fuller’s book, Critical Path, first published in 1978, dealt with human limits, diminished natural resources, population explosion, and paths to global success.  We were honored to have the famous futurist as a guest at Dag Hammarskjold College, the international college I founded.  My book deals with similar issues from a 21st century perspective.

Comparison of Destiny with Books in the Current Market

I compare my book, Destiny, to the following three successful contemporary books.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (Viking, 2019).  In my book, I comment, “Pinker shows how modern mainstream institutions…including western democracies, international organizations, and global trade agreements have ad

In 2008, J.K. Rowling, author of the seven-book Harry Potter series, delivered the commencement address in Harvard Yard.  As she rose to speak, she looked over a packed Yard, brimming with expectant faculty, students, parents, and well-wishers.  Ms. Rowling recounted how her parents wanted her to major in something “practical” in college. Only at her commencement did they learn she had studied early Greek mythology.  Her parents took the position that her overactive imagination “would never pay the mortgage.”  Early in her career, her parent’s premonition seemed sensible.  She had a failed marriage, a child, and no job.  Down to “bare essentials,” she realized all she had left was “my strong will, my imagination and my college friends.”  Supported by her friends, she found success in her imagination, and that was the topic of her commencement address.   Imagination, she told the engaged students, is a primary tool for changing the world.  “We do not need magic to change the world,” she said. “We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.”

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We also share with you Dr. Art Malone Jr. who is a Good Samaritan, Businessman and someone who, because of his nature and deeds helps humankind to do better. By being a leader in promoting and creating “Positive Beneficial Life” for ourselves and others we are doing our part to make our world more Peaceful, Dr. Malone stands for this.

DR. ARTHUR MALONE JR. Founder/Chairman/ CEO & Good Samaritan

What Does Peace Mean to Dr. Arthur Malone Jr.?

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As we proceed to find funders/sponsors for our Times Square Events on March 22, 2023 for World Water Day and April 22 for Earth Day we are learning about ESG, Environment, Social and Guidance. This, along with CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility are the future of companies for business and employees. Not Responsibility No Mother Earth.  WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

So I want to add to ESG, CSR ..PSR  Personal Social Responsibility, we are the answer and we are the problem, along with our animal and plant kingdom. One World.

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Here is our latest Sizzle Reel from our September 21, 2022 Times Square 5 Hour Broadcast. https://goodnewsplanet.com/2022-peace-day-sizzle-reel/

Here is our Power Point Presentation, as of 010923 for our Earth and Water Day Events. This Presentation was submitted to the Largest Asset Management Corporation in the World, BlackRock, whose CEO & His Company are “Doing the Right Thing” for ESG. We support them in their efforts, as it is business that will help save Mother Earth and our opportunity to live a long healthy life. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. This Good News Corporation, nonprofit presentation is for all to consider, as there are different funder levels for participation, or please just make a donation.  We await hearing from BlackRock, but either way they are “ Doing the Right Thing” for us to learn from Here is the link. BlackRock Presentation

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