Anti-War Music

[OneAngryDemocrat]

Picture this scenario...

You are sprawled out in the middle of your living room floor, surrounded by colored pens, markers, glue, and poster board, busily putting together your latest protest sign.

To get yourself into your, ''I am going to single-handedly end the War in Iraq with this as-of-yet-unfinished protest sign'' mood, you turn on the radio for inspiration, and hear...

BRITNEY SPEARS?!?!?!

No more, friends!!!

Go to www.shockedandawful.com/Tunes.html

[oscar111]

1. "War, humph, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing" Who sang it?

best of the genre, i say.

who recorded it?

[FloridaPat]

2. Pauk Revere and the Raiders.

[oscar111]

4. i recall some black guy singing it. who was he?

no text

[JeffR]

5. Edwin Starr

Died last year, I believe.

Sprinsteen has a great live cover of this, too.

[oscar111]

3. Stockholm Int'l Peace Research Institute.. you need to learn about it

If you are new to this topic, visit the site. Clumsy name, but good center.

It is the world leader in the field, and publishes the main research journal on peace studies.

http://www.sipri.org/

eg of the findings.. most humans have lived in peacetime, contrary to what history texts may imply with their roll call of war, war, war.

eg.. finding.. the larger the political unit, the fewer war dead. Small states tend to up the amount of war.

just a few of the useful fascinating findings.

Peace universities in Japan and Costa Rica, ... IIRC.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

6. Kick