…en from the countries of the terrible Four Famines, and from other conflict-torn, US-targeted countries such as Iraq, and Afghanistan. I think of their months or years of terrible hunger. Their stories may have ended already during the first half of 2017.   “I need no fruit I need no rice I need no sweets nor even bread I ask for nothing for myself For I am dead for I am dead” The song about “The Little Girl of Hiroshima” imagines a child who come…

…ethally determined to keep one ethnicity in undemocratic governance. No six-year-old poses any threat to anyone. Like the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children starved to death during the U.S. imposition of economic sanctions against Iraq, none of these children could be held accountable for the actions of their government or military. Hind Rajab committed no crime, but she was made to watch her family die and wait for death surrounded by their…

…ustice with our planetary neighbors. We could shed familiar privileges and search for communal tools to preserve us from indifferent wealth and voracious imperial power. We could embrace the theme of the Irish sisters at their Feile Bride gathering: “Allow the Voice of the Suffering to Speak” and then choose action-based initiatives to share our abundance and lay aside, forever, the futility of war. Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voic…

…on August 9, 2018, in a Saudi/UAE airstrike. Photo: CODEPINK A version of this article first appeared in The Progressive Magazine at https://progressive.org/dispatches/yemen-torrent-of-suffering-in-time-of-siege-kelly-200729/ Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK would, but they haven’t. With your reason and compassion, you see through all the current peace negotiators of the Afghan conflict: beneath their emperor’s clothes, you see that they are naked war executioners. When the world imagines that these peace negotiators/war executioners will negotiate for genuine peace, the world is fantasizing that the US military-christened Hellfire missiles, costing about US$58,000 each, o…

…penly threatened to kill” deputies at the demonstrations might get off scot-free. As Stuchlik explains, “At the conclusion of this investigation, either the case will be closed or sent to the District Attorney’s Office for possible charges… Because we are Law Enforcement, we have been threatened in the past and I am sure we will be threatened in the future. The threats come with the job.”   On August 19, when I finally got to trial on the reduced…

…a share in the business, as an ideal solution to the issue. “The very-rich-income earners need to decide, together with the low-income earners, that ‘I can do with less’,” he says. “Give me a lower salary. Cut it. Have a minimum and a maximum wage.” Such details need to be specific to every community, society and country, he adds. “But we have the skill and technology to be able to do that. “So let’s have those conversations and decide together.”…

…o stay around for, is there?” Zarghuna’s mother lost her husband and father-in-law to war. “She can’t live through another loss,” Zarghuna stated plainly. I believe we need to hear voices like Zarghuna’s. Our ‘smart’ devices, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, We Chat etc. etc. can’t do the listening. We are the ones who need to listen. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. On Zarghuna’s palm is written the word ‘Enough’ in Dari and Pashto ( the offi…

…ne night – with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe. I am convinced, 100%, it would change history. Nobody with a heart AND power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people. But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another “dahyia” onslaught on Gaza. The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their…

…f human beings and the racist, primitive nature of the United States prison-industrial complex. They’ve also chosen to visit or live in war zones, providing witness on behalf of people trapped under bombardment. They live simply, share resources and strive to help build a better world.   Nevertheless, beginning Monday, they will face serious criminal charges and potentially harsh sentences for their action at Kings Bay. Marianne anxiously awaits t…