What do Rage Against the Machine, Neil Diamond, the Bee Gees, Christina Aguilera & Bruce Springsteen have in common? They’re all forms of torture, at least in the hands of the American military. I’d grant Christina Aguilera this status all on her own, but there is, as they say, no accounting for taste. Mother Jones has compiled the Torture Playlist, a selection of songs used by the military to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock” (great band name!) and disorient detainees during interrogations. The Groundswell Blog has created a sticker to help raise awareness (at least awareness that there’s a Groundswell Blog), so you can print them and stick them on CD’s at your local record store. I’m not sure what that will accomplish, but the stickers sure are clever, huh? People keep raising the question of whether the artists are receiving the appropriate royalties for the U.S. Military’s use of their songs, but I’ve wondered for some time if anybody’s paying royalties to that poor guy standing on the box.