Sonic Peacemakers

Sonic Peacemakers Building bridges of peace by facilitating collaborations between Pakistani and American musicians

Spearheaded by guitarist/producer Lanny Cordola (Beach Boys, Macy Gray, Cypress Hill), singer/songwriter Todd Shea (Shine Humanity) and Official Sonic Peacemakers Ambassadors Matt Sorum (Guns n’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Donovan Leitch (music business manager/promoter), Ethan Casey (Author of Alive And Well In Pakistan and Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip), Mark LeVine (best-selling author

of Heavy Metal Islam), Aaron Cohen (best-selling author of Slave Hunter) and Sarwar Mushtaq (award winning documentary filmmaker), this eclectic group of cultural innovators have united to build musical bridges between people in America and Pakistan, as well as assisting in the millennium development goals of bringing K-5 education in Pakistan — harnessing the power of imagination and technology, while ushering in a new age of song and sound that transcends differences and celebrates our shared humanity. The Sonic Peacemakers "Pakistan America Peace Through Music" project is based, among other things, on world music pioneer Manu Dibango’s declaration that musicians are “all from the same tribe” regardless of their race, nationality or religion, and Albert Ayler’s proclamation that “music is the healing force of the universe.” Lanny and Todd will travel across Pakistan in 2012, establishing Sonic Peacemakers chapters in schools, villages, and cultural centers to share the concept of “peace through music.”

04/18/2024

Dear Friends,

I'm truly sorry for my intrusion on your time, your enjoyment of life, and possibly even upon your beliefs and trust in either of our corrupted mainstream political parties (both are an absolute disgrace who couldn't care less about you or me except for how much they can steal from us and manipulate us into letting them do and get away with whatever the Hell they want), but please understand that what I want to say to you comes from a place of love and concern for the future wellbeing of your family, our country, and our declining standing, influence, reputation and respect in the world.

Many Americans, perhaps you among them, are going about their daily lives as though everything is fine and that the leaders of this country we all love are not guilty of both indifference to obscene levels of human suffering and active complicity in aiding and abetting the commission of an ongoing and unprecedented crime against Humanity constituting a 75 year psychopathic act of ethnic cleansing and dehumanization, culminating in a current genocidal military campaign which is killing tens of thousands of children and innocent human beings and terrorizing, traumatizing, and starving millions in a tiny sliver of land that exists as no less than the largest concentration camp on the face of the Earth. Many Western paid-off pundits and so-called journalists would have you believing that the events of October 7th were the start of all this escalating madness. Please don’t fall for it.

The overwhelming injustice of brutal and unjust military occupation by Israeli forces of UN-mandated Palestinian lands since the end of WWII, and the illegal annexation of territory expanding every year with Israeli settlements (along with Israel's decades of funding and supporting of groups like Hamas behind the scenes while marginalizing moderate Palestinians in the the West Bank and Gaza in order to sabotage any chance of a sovereign Palestinian State) is precisely what is keeping the conflict alive and festering and destroying any chance for peace. On October 7, that strategy either backfired horrifically or the incursion was intentionally allowed and contrived in order to manufacture the excuse Netanyahu desired in order to start a more aggressive phase of pursuing his extremist ethno-religious imperialist designs in The Middle East.

Either way, the tyrannical policies and unhinged fascist psychopathic behavior of Israel's leadership are putting Palestinian and Israeli lives in great danger, and making the USA a hypocrite of monumental and historical proportions because America is funding and supporting the atrocities Israel is committing and sending the weapons used in those atrocities. And you are paying for it all with your tax dollars and our newly degraded international standing as a nation which has turned its back on its own supposedly ironclad bedrock principles of Human rights, The Geneva Convention and The Rule of Law. And all Americans will pay for it in the future when our children fight and are injured or killed by unnecessary wars and backlash terrorism sparked by Israeli extremism that we allowed to make us into hypocrites and turn every value we claim to hold dear into meaningless farce. If The Good People of America will wake up and understand what is actually being done in our name with our money and blood, only then will we have a chance to reverse this satanic process which poses a clear and present danger to civilization itself.

Thousands upon thousands of innocent babies, children, women and families have been deliberately murdered in cold blood by Israel, although you may not realize this is happening because the US media and most of our Congress are bought and paid for by the pro-Israeli lobby and the weapons industry lobby and control the information that most Americans get from traditional mainstream mass media outlets. Sincere Americans who care about the truth must be willing to take the time to dig deeper and work harder if they really want to learn the actual situation and realize how expertly we are being played with mass propaganda and indoctrination tactics that would make George Orwell terrified, and then use threats and intimidation or shadow banning when someone rejects the propaganda and speaks against the rotten US regime. The corrupt fatcats at the top of the global power structure all benefit greatly from this rancid system, while the everyday Americans they use and abuse struggle and suffer and our brave armed forces are constantly put in harms way over lies. It's so sad, most veterans who survive their military service in some war zone are not properly looked after when they come back home. Two dozen veterans die from su***de every single day and our infrastructure is falling apart and our government shrugs or gives lip service but they always find billions of dollars to give Israel every year so our leaders and corporate weapons dealers can benefit from the largest money laundering scam ever perpetrated. You and your neighbors are the victim of this fraud which funds atrocities that continue a lucrative business cycle of violence which perpetually victimizes both Palestinian and Israeli Human Beings. I'm truly sad and sorry to report to you, we all have blood on our hands- most of us unwittingly because we're so busy working just trying to survive and pay off our houses, cars, kid's education, etc. but it's still the tragic reality whether you are aware of it or not. We aren't the good guys this time. We are supporting crimes against Humanity on a truly Nazi-like scale except it has gone on now for 75 years and counting. It's a disgrace which desecrates the graves of our courageous and principled veterans who died fighting against tyranny and evil in hopes of making a better world not only for American children, but for all the World's children and for our collective future on this tiny and fragile planet. Aaron Bushnell didn't burn himself to death because he was crazy, he did it because he could no longer reconcile the American values he believed in with the inhuman atrocities his leaders and superiors are asking him and his fellow service members to take part in. He chose to make a desperate final statement to wake up and shake up his fellow citizens to what is being done in our name with our money and might. Please don't allow his death and the sacrifice of our best, brightest and bravest men and women- our protectors against enemies both foreign and domestic- be in vain.

If you have any questions, I am here for you. I have taken a lot of time to study the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the behavior of our disgraceful government and both disgusting major political parties in the last 23 years since I stood in the wreckage of the World Trade Center twin towers in the days after 9/11 when I began my humanitarian career. I am not against Jews or any religious or ethnic group, I hate no human being over religion, ethnicity, origin, lifestyle, or nationality, and I am not on the side of terrorism by any individual, group, or government, including the terrorism of the Israeli and US government. In fact, I am 100% sure that the current path were on will inevitability lead only to catastrophic consequences for everyone, and even more destructive and horrific in the long run for common Israeli and American citizens when people come from every corner of the world to make us pay for what we've allowed to happen on our watch as the World's lone superpower.

If you have any questions, I am available to help enlighten and educate you to indisputable facts that you are most likely unaware of.

Best Regards,

Todd Shea
CEO & Founder
Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS)

For the last five years, Lanny Cordola has been providing guitar lessons to 200 kids (mostly girls) in Kabul, Afghanista...
10/31/2020

For the last five years, Lanny Cordola has been providing guitar lessons to 200 kids (mostly girls) in Kabul, Afghanistan who've been traumatized by war, poverty and abuse. But much more than that, he's provided them with love, support and opportunities so they can have a chance for a better life.

Check out the new cover of The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" by Lanny and his Girls with Guitars, collaborating with members of legendary rock bands The Bangles, The GoGos and The Runaways, Rage Against The Machine, MC5, and The Foo Fighters, and produced, recorded and engineered in Pakistan by Sarmad Ghafoor.

Please share and donate at miraculouslovekids.org so Lanny can continue supporting these amazing girls

Musician Lanny Cordola formed the Miraculous Love Kids around the premise that “it shouldn’t hurt to be a child.” That a kid with a melody in their heart has hope, and with hope all things are possible…

Lanny Cordola and I have begun collaborating with Izzat Majeed, Nur Fatima, Samira Ahmed and their team of world-class m...
02/22/2019

Lanny Cordola and I have begun collaborating with Izzat Majeed, Nur Fatima, Samira Ahmed and their team of world-class musicians at Sachal Studios in Lahore. We spent an afternoon in Lahore recording a new tune, "Afternoon in Lahore," which is part of a larger musical journey through Pakistan based on Lanny's travels all over Pakistan with my team and I.

We've been so busy for many years working on our humanitarian projects in the field, but now we're back making music that matters together and will be joining hands with other like-minded wandering minstrels who wish for their music to inspire and enable good works in the service of Humanity, and hope to build more positive connections between good people from opposite sides of the World.

Lanny played lead guitar for the Beach Boys for many years (among many other history-making recording artists he's worked with). Before this session in Lahore, Lanny was last in the studio a few months back with the legendary founder of the Beach Boys Brian Wilson recording a re-make of Brian's "Love and Mercy" with the Afghan children he's adopted who've been traumatized by war and poverty. SO things are starting to get very interesting for The Sonic Peacemakers. We're planning some very cool things with Lanny's Girls and the Sachal Studios and other mystical, magical musical surprises. Stay tuned for much more to come... :)

This must-read article is from last November, but our guitar-slinging Humanitarian Hero Lanny Cordola is right there rig...
03/25/2017

This must-read article is from last November, but our guitar-slinging Humanitarian Hero Lanny Cordola is right there right now in Afghanistan doin' his thing and making A LOT of war-weary children very happy. Please do something - anything - to support his noble efforts...

Two young faces.

CDRS YOUTH Islamabad Chapter joined with Tariq Khan and his wonderful initiative Clean And Green Pakistan for their Eart...
04/23/2015

CDRS YOUTH Islamabad Chapter joined with Tariq Khan and his wonderful initiative Clean And Green Pakistan for their Earth Day Cleanup of F-10 Markaz in Islamabad. Much more great things to come! Schools, Universities and Individuals are most welcome to join CDRS YOUTH. Let's work together for the betterment of Humanity- Locally, Nationally, regionally and Globally.

CDRS YOUTH Islamabad Chapter joined with Tariq Khan and his wonderful initiative CLEAN AND GREEN PAKISTAN for their Earth Day Cleanup of F-10 Markaz in Islamabad. Much more great things to come! Schools, Universities and Individuals are most welcome to join us. Let's work together for the betterment of Humanity- Locally, Nationally, regionally and Globally.

02/21/2015

Our new CDRS YOUTH Ambassador. So inspiring. Must see!

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