ROUNDTABLE 11. JFK’s Dream For World Peace: Nonviolence is Not For Cowards

August 3, 2022

Featuring Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, co-authors of Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story; Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire; The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond, and The Valediction: Resurrection.

“Many visionaries for world peace have inspired us. Like JFK, an Afghan named Badshah Khan also dedicated his life to world peace, but few in the West know his name. He launched the Khudai Khidmatgar social movement in 1929 with about one thousand recruits who took an oath to renounce violence and never touch a weapon as they resisted British rule. Organized like an army, their numbers eventually exceeded 100,000 and included women and men.

Khudai Khidmatgar is an active movement to this day. Their success was defined by Gandhi himself, after Khan said to him, “You have been preaching non-violence in India for a long time now, but I started teaching the Pashtuns non-violence only a short time ago, yet in comparison, the Pashtuns seemed to have grasped the idea of non-violence much better than the Indians. How do you explain that?” Gandhi replied, “Non-violence is not for cowards. It is for the brave and for the courageous, and the Pashtun are brave and courageous. That is the reason why the Pashtun are able to remain non-violent.”

We have much to learn from Badshah Khan’s Khudai Khidmatgar movement. It will be presented at Roundtable 11 as we explore the paradigm shift needed to save the world from endless war: transforming ourselves from warriors for war into warriors for peace. Please RSVP and join with us for this important discussion.” –Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Host: RA “Kris” Millegan, TrineDay Publishing (150 books in the past twenty years). “The folks in the shadows who lie, cheat and steal to manipulate us must be exposed so we can create a better world for our children.”

Moderator: Bruce de Torres, author of God, School, 9/11 and JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free

First half, presentation. Second half, Q&A with audience.

THE VALEDICTION ROUNDTABLES SERIES – “Exposing the Failure of Empire and Reclaiming the Narrative Creation Process” – is inspired by THE VALEDICTION, Paul and Liz’s two-book novelized memoir about their journalism in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion. When they returned, corporate media didn’t want to broadcast the truths that they had found. Paul and Liz began a journey into history and mysticism, which, they discovered, is the real power behind empires.