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Weapons that Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change

June 10, 2020

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

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

June 2, 2020

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

My Friend Steve Kelly: Trident Program is the Crime

April 5, 2020

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm

March 28, 2020

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

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

March 18, 2020

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

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

October 29, 2019

By Kathy Kelly 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, […]

Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen

October 18, 2019

By Kathy Kelly 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 […]

The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives

July 24, 2019

By Kathy Kelly “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew […]

Afghanistan, Remnants of War

July 14, 2019

By Kathy Kelly Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul […]

An Honorable Course in Iran: End Sanctions, Resume Dialogue

June 29, 2019

By Kathy Kelly Last week, Elham Pourtaher, an Iranian graduate student at the State University of New York in Albany, wrote about how U.S. policies cause suffering and trauma far beyond U.S. borders. Her diabetic father, for […]

‘Every War Is a War against Children’

March 28, 2019

By Kathy Kelly At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the entrance to a rural hospital in northwest Yemen, supported by Save the Children, was teeming as patients waited to be seen and employees […]

Chelsea Manning: Judging US War Crimes

March 11, 2019

By Kathy Kelly Chelsea Manning, who bravely exposed atrocities committed by the U.S. military, is again imprisoned in a U.S. jail. On International Women’s Day, March 8, 2019, she was incarcerated in the Alexandria, VA […]

A Shift: Repudiating War on Yemen

December 20, 2018

By Kathy Kelly Twenty years ago, a small delegation organized by Voices in the Wilderness lived in Baghdad while U.S. cruise missiles attacked more than 100 targets in Iraq. Following four days of bombing, known […]

Seeing Yemen from Jeju

December 6, 2018

By Kathy Kelly Several days ago, I joined an unusual skype call originated by young South Korean founders of “The Hope School.” Located on Jeju Island, the school aims to build a supportive community between […]

Long and Brutal: US War on Children in the Middle East

December 1, 2018

By Kathy Kelly On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holding a floor debate on a resolution calling for an end to direct U.S. Armed Forces involvement in the Saudi-UAE coalition-led war […]

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