Kathy Kelly Archives - Palestine Chronicle

Brotherhood and Friendship in a Time of War: Reflections on ‘The Mercenary’ – Book Review

May 30, 2023

Sometimes, I needed to pause and recall my own presumptive conclusions about experiences in prisons and war zones when I had recognized a defining reality, which was that we would eventually return to privileged lives, […]

Organizing Resistance to US Militarism: To End All Wars, Close All Bases

May 7, 2023

A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating a portion of every day to continue researching the extent and impact of USA foreign […]

Blood Does Not Wash Away Blood: Words are Stronger than Weapons

March 14, 2023

The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that major powers can benefit from believing that, as Albert Camus once put it, […]

Peace Activists Take on the Pentagon: Decry the Merchants of Death

January 2, 2023

Days after a US warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu walked through the […]

Biden’s Middle East Trip: No Starvation for Oil

July 13, 2022

President Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisors are applauding themselves for devising a “sensitive” itinerary as he plans to embark on a trip to the Middle East on July 13. In a Washington Post op-ed, Biden […]

‘Thank You for Hearing Our Pain’: Afghan Economy Collapses Due to US Sanctions

February 13, 2022

During visits to Kabul, Afghanistan, over the past decade, I particularly relished lingering over breakfasts on chilly winter mornings with my young hosts who were on their winter break from school. Seated on the floor, […]

Abandoning Yemen? UNHRC Action Silences Yemeni Victims of Human Rights Abuses

October 16, 2021

Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (also known as the Group of Experts or GEE). For nearly four years, this investigative group examined alleged human […]

Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan

July 18, 2021

Earlier this week, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul. They feared Taliban militants would attack them in Bamiyan. Over the […]

Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison

July 10, 2021

“Pardon Daniel Hale.” These words hung in the air on a recent Saturday evening, projected onto several Washington, D.C. buildings, above the face of a courageous whistleblower facing ten years in prison. The artists aimed […]

Hunting in Yemen: The Grotesque War

April 11, 2021

Since March 29, in Washington, D.C., Iman Saleh, age 26, has been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the war in Yemen. She is joined by five others from her group, The […]

No Blood for Oil: Pope Francis Should Kiss Iraqi Soil

March 4, 2021

Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. We were 73 people from fifteen different countries, aged 22 to 76, living […]

About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen

January 20, 2021

In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created “The Massacre of the Innocents,” a provocative masterpiece of religious art. The painting reworks a biblical narrative about King Herod’s order to slaughter all newborn boys in Bethlehem for fear that a messiah […]

Hiroshima: Our Survival at Stake

August 9, 2020

For many, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, August 6, was a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion of Iraq when the […]

Inked in Blood: When the World Becomes Our Battleground State

June 27, 2020

On Thursday, June 25, President Trump’s re-election efforts took him to the “battleground” state of Wisconsin, where he toured the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard. He railed against the Democrats as a scarier enemy than Russia or China. He […]

Weapons that Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change

June 10, 2020

In her poem, “The Revolution Will Rhyme,” Buffalo Black Lives Matter activist Jillian Hanesworth writes about the movement for change we now see sweeping across the world. It will not be developed just to be displaced Its […]

‘Our Disaster’: US Role in Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

June 2, 2020

An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s ongoing war, with […]

My Friend Steve Kelly: Trident Program is the Crime

April 5, 2020

On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple prison sentences for […]

Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm

March 28, 2020

For the past three years, several dozen New Yorkers have gathered each Saturday at Union Square, at 11:00 a.m. to vigil for peace in Yemen. Now, however, due to the coronavirus, the vigil for peace […]

US Sanctions against Iran: Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message

March 18, 2020

US sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the US “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, […]

Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq

October 29, 2019

On October 27, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children. President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces, in a tunnel, […]

Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen

October 18, 2019

Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike with Creativity.” Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments of which have […]