…launch forever wars which continue to this day. Under the guise of “counter-terrorism,” the U.S. now pledges to combine drone attacks, surveillance, airstrikes, and covert operations to continue waging war in Afghanistan. Terror among Afghans persists. I visited Kabul, Afghanistan in September 2019. While there, a young friend whom I’ve known for five years greeted me and then spoke in a hushed voice. “Kathy,” he asked, “do you know about Qazi Qad…

…Gaza Strip. Dr. El-Farra is also the Health Chair of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society of the Gaza Strip and a member of the Union of Health Work Committees. Dr. El-Farra has a son, two daughters, and two grandchildren….

…ion to dig with our European sisters and brothers and it is hoped that the predicted opening of Germany to summer tourists will allow us to attend. Please contact info@digging-for-life.net to register or for more information. “If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it!”…

…re society bears responsibility for what now can aptly be labeled a “prison-industrial complex.” Constructing prisons and filling prisons with people who posed little or no threat to our security didn’t happen secretively, without our consent. We watched, mesmerized perhaps, and allowed ourselves to become a country with the world’s largest prison system. A friend from home recently sent me encouraging news of Illinois Governor Rauner’s initiative…

…, when Stern returns home he doesn’t have that same psychic assurance of a passport to safety. He comes close to emotional and physical collapse when struggling, along with a determined group of people, to help desperate Afghan flee the Taliban. He’s in his home, handling a barrage of zoom calls, logistical problems, fundraising demands, and yet is unable to help everyone who deserves help. Stern’s sense of home and family alters, throughout the b…

…gossip and end up diverting the movement and the people involved from its common goal. Examples of character assassination are calling another person an adulterer, wife beater, liar, drug addict or other damaging names. A person who uses character assassinations attempts to persuade the group from supporting another by using an emotional appeal rather than addressing the specific work that an individual has contributed to a group or movement. Whi…

…over the past forty years in terms of the brutality will probably pale in comparison to what will come.” I recently watched a video of a talk given in June of this year by Dr. Zaher Wahab, an Afghan professor in Portland, Oregon, who laments the intensifying havoc and violence war is causing in Afghanistan. He and his wife lived there for six years, until about a year ago, when they concluded that the city was unlivable. Dr. Wahab believes there…

…te. “The two Taliban fighters had fled. Instead, Obaidullah and his fifteen-year-old son Esmatullah were killed; thirteen others suffered broken bones and shrapnel injuries from head to toe. One boy, fourteen-year-old Ehsanullah, lost both his eyes.” In a report on civilian casualties, the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan attributed a rise in civilian deaths in 2019 to an escalation of the U.S. air war in the country. In addition,…

…s disregard for the human rights of their citizens.   Darfur is a region encompassing five states situated on the western side of The Republic of Sudan. Conflict started in Darfur in 2003 between rebel groups and the Sudanese government. The rebels, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), accused the government of persecuting the non-Arab population in Darfur and the government of President Omar Al-Bashir reacted b…

…  Kindly hosts in Brunswick, GA turned over their Air B and B to us. The accommodation is a remodeled garage, – were we not fasting we might find the kitchen a bit crowded, but for us, this week, the accommodations are ideal. Egrets, ospreys and vultures glide overhead. Huge live oaks surround us, looming and beautiful, draped in Spanish moss. Tannins released from the oak trees seep into the nearby river, historically a source of fresh water beca…