…‘for the world to remember Somalia’, https://blogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/14-07-24-somalia-eight-warnings-catastrophe-so-far-and-no-action Millions of Somali refugees flee US-UK-backed terror. “This poor country keeps taking one blow after another,” Peter Goossens observed several years ago: “Ultimately, it will break.” The country is Somalia, where Mr. Goossens was the director of the World Food Program. The population of this tragic and tortured lan…

…she wrote. After the attack, McKernan interviewed Mustafa al-Adel, a twenty-two-year-old security guard employed at the site. His brother, Ahmed, also a guard, was among those killed. Adel pointed to a blanket, visible on the second floor of a building where the guards had slept. “You can see Ahmed’s blue blanket up there,” said Adel. “There were 200 people here but now it’s just ghosts.” Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Saudi-led coalition…

…ed Heart Church. https://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/3958-is-the-world-bank-funding-death-squads-in-honduras When we arrived at this church, it was a Sunday afternoon. I saw several large tents set up in the parking lot, along with a large camper that said “medical clinic” and also a large McAllen Police camper-like vehicle with floodlights. We were led inside the church building to a large reception hall filled with shelves of c…

…It’s encouraging to know that thousands upon thousands of committed people seek and find work to make our world less like a prison for our neighbors and ourselves. My address for the next three months is Kathy Kelly 04971-045 FMC LEXINGTON FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER SATELLITE CAMP P.O. BOX 14525 LEXINGTON, KY 40512     Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence. For more information, please contact VCNV at [email protected]….

…the cry of “Fuera JOH!” They take roads and block traffic. They stand face-to-face with integrated forces of counterinsurgency-trained police and military in their riot gear with their armored cars, shields, water cannons, and seemingly endless supply of tear gas. All financed and supplied by the U.S.A. It is breathtaking to see the courage and tenacity of the people. They know the dangers they face because so many of their loved ones have been v…

…usands of drone attack victims has been a person of color and drones are becoming another military weapon passed on from war zones to urban police departments. Technical advances and proliferation of drones as a cheaper, more politically safe way for many countries to make war on their neighbors or across the globe make forever wars more intractable. Talk of peace in Afghanistan, Yemen, the streets of the U.S., is not coherent while waging wars wi…

…ion, stop the killing. Rather than normalize militarism and human rights abuses, the United States should seek, always and everywhere, to salvage the planet and respect human rights. This article first appeared in The Progressive https://progressive.org/latest/prioritizing-human-rights-kelly-09052023/ Kathy Kelly (kathy.vcnv@gmail.com) is the board president of World BEYOND War (worldbeyondwar.org)and a co-coordinator of the Merchants of Death War…

…ban. However, the agreement assured the United States and NATO that abuses committed under their command would not be subject to investigation. Politicizing U.N. agencies and procedures makes it all the more difficult for people making inquiries to establish trusting relationships with people whose rights should be upheld by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. When I was approaching shopkeepers for ideas about people we might cont…

…the Disarm Trident march. You can contact the Kings’ Bay Plowshares support group at kingsbayplowshares@gmail.com 207-266-0919…

…, jailed for 2 years, kidnapped, tortured, losing my house, parents, father-in-law, death threat letter and assassination attempt. Over 50 relatives killed. What more must I give them for them to believe me? Only one thing I forgot, to submit my death certificate. I feel I am being slaughtered. I don’t know what to tell my wife and children [in Baghdad].”   We have since learned that Finland is granting residency to only 10% of asylum seekers. An…