Kathy Kelly

Bilal, Durant and other artists who help us think about U.S. colonial warfare against the people of Iraq and other nations should surely be thanked.

"It's not normal for people to live like this," says Iman Saleh, now on her thirteenth day of a hunger strike demanding an end to war in Yemen.

Amid the ongoing horror, it’s important to find ways to atone for war crimes—including reparations.

The United Nations estimates the war has already caused 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 deaths from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services and infrastructure.

People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault.

We must turn away from war, and the profit motives that drive so much of it, if we are to finally realize our dreams of peace and justice.

It’s time for the world to demand an end to the policy-driven humanitarian crisis.

The world that our global empire is swiftly creating, through our devastating oil wars in the Middle East and our arriving cold wars with Russia and China, is a world without winners.