pete seeger died last january. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. new details have emerged on how the nation's largest group of psychologists, the american psychological association aided government-sanctioned torture under president george w. bush. a group of dissident psychologists have just published a 60-page report alleging the apa secretly coordinated with officials from the cia, white house, and the pentagon to change the apa ethics policy to align it with the operational needs of the cia's torture program. the report also reveals a behavioral science researcher working for president bush secretly drafted language that the apa inserted into its ethics policy on interrogations. much of the report is based on hundreds of newly released internal apa emails from 2003 to 2006 that show top officials were in direct communication with the cia. in 2004, for example, the apa secretly took part in a meeting with officials from the cia and other intelligence agencies to discuss ethics and nati

in 1972, pete seeger reminded new york city that if it polluted the upper hudson especially the watershednew york city's drinking water would be ruined. >> ♪ this land is made for you and me ♪ josh: in 19 72, richard nixon signed the clean water act into law. an era of environmental progress. the cold war was on. there was a concept of leisure time and leisure states. computer use and technology were supposed to bring about the 4- day work week and everyone was going to have time swimming in the rivers. in new york city they were building this. 100 miles up in north milanville , pennsylvania on the banks of the delaware we were building this. my first word was hammered. -- was hammer. it's 2009. i got a letter in the mail from a natural gas company. the letter told me my land was on top of a formation that stretched across pennsylvania, new york ohio. and that it was the saudi arabia of natural gas. i would receive a signing bonus of $4750 an acre. that was nearly $100,000 in my hand. could it be that easy? you have probably seen ads on television handling natural gas as the cleanburning