War Tax Resistance Gains a Funk Anthem

Now I know the War Tax Resistance movement’s hitting its stride — it’s got its own funk anthem!

In other news, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Arun is going to Palestine to try to encourage the revival of nonviolent resistance there. His visit will include a meeting with Yasser Arafat.

Brian Whitaker in The Guardian speculates as to why Gandhi’s model of non-violent resistance has met with suspicion and repression in the Middle East.