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It was beyond crazy beautiful to see legendary musician Pete Seeger up on stage the day at the pre-inauguration celebration, leading tens of thousands in Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" along with a Senator with a rendezvous with history. I've been lucky enough to see Pete so many times, even right there on the Mall on Washington, but almost always he's been there in protest. Yesterday he was there at the invitation of in the incoming President of the United States. It's too easy to m… Continue

Part of the playbook for American torture in Iraq and Guantánamo comes from Chinese interrogation methods used against captured Americans during the Cold War. What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. The recycled cha… Continue

I thought I'd inaugurate the blog part of this new Nonviolence site with a Youtube video on the "Cost of War" from the American Friends Service Committee that's become quite popular.

From the video: "The Iraq war has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of U.S. military personnel. It is also costing $720 Million dollars each day - dollars that could be spent in much more constructive ways. It is time to DEFUND the war and RE-FUN… Continue