Kathy Kelly (Kathy@vcnv.org) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence. While in Kabul, she is a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers.
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Felton Davis
Imagining a ‘Peace Child’
The horror of the Yemen War is changing minds at last. Read more
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East
When children waste away to literally nothing while fourteen million people face conflict driven famine, a hue and cry—yes, a caterwaul —most certainly should be raised, worldwide. Read more
U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia
The U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen
On August 9, a U.S.-supported Saudi airstrike bombed a bus carrying schoolchildren in Sa’ada, a city in northern Yemen. Read more
Creative Commons
A New Report Highlights Torture Amid U.S.-Backed Crisis in Yemen
A new Amnesty International report implicates UAE-backed forces in Yemen—which are supported by the U.S.—in the torture and other mistreatment of detainees. Read more
TOLOnews YouTube
Afghans, Parched for Water, March for Peace
Afghans could be forgiven for feeling paralyzed and defeated by controlling elites who ignore their most basic human needs. Yet every day, Afghan communities reject continued war and call for peace. Read more
Afghan Peace Volunteers
Teen Solidarity Against the Merchants of Death
Courageous teenagers are making waves in the U.S. regarding gun policies. What if international teen solidarity could subject U.S. military attacks in Afghanistan to the same horror and scorn so many now direct toward the National Rifle Association? Read more
Pixabay
Forty-One Hearts Are Still Beating in Guantanamo
It would take a very stable genius to close Guantanamo. Read more
U.S. National Archives
On Armistice Day, Let’s Celebrate Peace
Veterans for Peace are working to recover the original purpose of Armistice Day—calling for adequate psychological and material support for veterans, and above all to abolish wars. Read more
Kathy Kelly
“From the Ground Up.” Voices of Pain and Resistance in Afghanistan.
Kabul, formerly one of the safest places in Afghanistan, has now become one of the most dangerous. Read more
U.S. Department of Defense/Department of Energy
Trump Wants Us to Worry about Iran. But We’re the Problem.
One example: U.S. ally Israel, which possesses an estimated 80 nuclear warheads, with material for up to 200, poses the real nuclear threat in the region. Read more
Misako Chida
Will 2017 Be Remembered as the Year of Four Famines?
Yemen, Southern Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, are set to collectively lose 20 million people this year from conflict-driven famine. The U.S. House of Representatives just took a step toward ending the conflict. We need to pressure them to do more. Read more
Courage for Peace, Not for War, In Afghanistan
Instead of tolerating endless war in Afghanistan, we need to demand that the United States pay reparations for the suffering and destruction it has already caused. Read more
ourjourneytosmile.com
While the United States Threatens War, in Afghanistan the Work of Peace Continues
We cannot continue to look the other way as military and economic warfare destroys lives. We must not lose ourselves in trivia and fantasy while the foundation of our real existence is the inescapable misery and suffering of others. Read more
Wolfgang Gressmann/Oxfam
How the United States Is Helping Create One of the World’s Largest Humanitarian Crises in Yemen
We bear responsibility for supplying arms to Saudi Arabia. Corporations like General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, have profited massively. Read more
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See How We Live: Notes from Afghanistan
The beauty and the tragedy of everyday life in a war zone. Read more
Don't Move! U.S. Aggression a Tragedy at Home and Abroad.
When the United States acts as “global policeman,” we do to other nations what those two officers did to Alton Sterling. Read more
Why go to Russia? This is what Citizen-to-citizen Diplomacy Looks Like.
Ordinary people everywhere should demand that international disputes be resolved by non-military means. Read more
Breaking Bread in Kabul
I wondered how Ellis’s guidelines for conflict resolution could be useful to people in the United States. Read more
The Women Who Won't Go Away
In Kabul I have often encountered women who walk long distances, desperate for help and clutching a rumor of work or sustenance Read more
U.S. Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital is a War Crime
“There are no words for how terrible it was.” Read more
