Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
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Views Saturday, January 04, 2020 An Eyewitness to the Horrors of the US 'Forever Wars' Speaks Out The 2003 "shock and awe" bombing of Iraq had finally stopped. From the balcony of my room in Baghdad's Al Fanar Hotel, I watched U.S. Marines moving between their jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and Humvees. They had occupied the street immediately in front of the small, family-owned hotel where... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 28, 2019 Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq Yesterday morning, 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, and then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest he wore. In 2004, Al-Baghdadi had... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 26, 2019 Trident Is the Crime On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor. The defendants face 20 years in prison, yet they emerged from their trial seeming quite ready for next steps in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 20, 2019 Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time, she was running, with her son, on a football field. After the second break, when she fell in her kitchen, she recalls her only desire as... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Death, Bloodshed, and Misery in Yemen Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London in October, journalist Arron Merat describes reading the slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike With Creativity.” Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs—produced in factories in the United States and... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 30, 2019 The Wounds of War Its economy gutted by war, Afghanistan’s largest cash crop remains opium. Yet farmers there do grow other crops for export. Villagers in the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province, for example, cultivate pine nuts. As a precaution, this year at harvest time, village elders notified the governor of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 28, 2019 The Wounds of War in Afghanistan Its economy gutted by war, Afghanistan’s largest cash crop remains opium. Yet farmers there do grow other crops for export. Villagers in the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province, for example, cultivate pine nuts. As a precaution, this year at harvest time, village elders notified the governor of... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 11, 2019 A Morning in Afghanistan n a very warm September morning in Kabul, several dozen men, women, and children sit on the carpeted floor of a room at the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Borderfree Center. The women cluster together. All wear burqas, but because of the heat they push the steel blue veils back, revealing their faces... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up in Gaza. Last week, while addressing Chicago activists committed to ending Israeli attacks and blockades in the region, he held up a list of the names of 1,254 Palestinians living in Gaza killed in just one month of Israel’s “... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 12, 2019 Remnants of War 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 at least 40 people , including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of... Read more |