…half of western corporate capitalism. That means London-Washington-Brussels-Paris-Berlin running the world. Russia, China, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and a few other nations are on the list for ‘regime change’ in the coming years. They still stand outside full control by the western bankers and militarists.   The recent formation of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) alternative economic institution w…

…e a lawful excuse to do what they did. The question is, what’s our excuse not to do more? What will rise us?”   Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…son cells. That’s forty-one too many. A version of this article was first published on The Progressive website. Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…l still alive (sort of) and the UK primed to leave the EU and accelerate so-called free markets (i.e., privatisation), the proposed Bill was an important step towards protecting the NHS from US pharmaceutical and especially insurance providers, who can’t wait to see the final public elements of the Service fully privatised.   The Bill would have extended to the whole of the UK and ‘[r]equire[d] the National Health Service to be exempted from the p…

…the second floor of our living space. Rose bushes, morning glories and four-o-clocks have bloomed, and each day we eat tomatoes, mint and green onions plucked from the well-cared for garden. The water source is a hose and tank outside, (there’s no indoor plumbing) so that’s where dishes and clothes are cleaned. The latrine is also outside–and unfortunately we’re sharing it with playful neighbourhood cats, but otherwise Zarghuna, Zahidi and Zahro c…

…inement. My intention was more than realized this time! The suppression of free speech in front of the White House is not the crackdown on the Arab Spring in Bahrain and Central Cellblock is not Abu Ghraib. My would-be extradition to Las Vegas is not “special rendition” to Jordan or to Guantanamo. These evils, small or large, are all growing from the same roots of imperial arrogance and in our different places and conditions, we are in this strugg…

…cept, these air strikes “killed more than 200 people. Of those, only thirty-five were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets.” Under the Espionage Act, Hale faces ten years in prison at his July 27 sentencing. We should be sorry for night raids that terrified civilians, assassinated innocent people, and were…

…e couldn’t make informed decisions. Moved by his conscience, he opted to become a truth-teller. The U.S. government is treating him as a threat, a thief who stole documents, and an enemy. If ordinary people knew more about him, they might regard him as a hero. Hale was charged under the Espionage Act for allegedly providing classified information to a reporter. The Espionage Act is  an antiquated World War I era law, passed in 1917, designed for u…

…ence and insisting on an immediate end to any support for Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza. It’s time to acknowledge the futility of war and call for a collective home to be shared by Musims, Jews, Christians, Bahais, Druze, and many others in a secular democratic state encompassing Israel and Palestine. Similarly, our elected representatives should occupy the Oval Office until the President takes action. Kathy Kelly (kathy.vcnv@gmail.com) is t…

…who’ve created model projects based on mutual respect and creative problem-solving as they’ve welcomed young Afghans to become integral members of Portuguese society. Upholding the right to safety, we should stop pouring money into the coffers of military contractors. These merchants of death take us down the road of militarism and exploitation. Rather than be led by fortress Europe or US-led NATO full spectrum dominance, we should find security…