…control over our fears and mutual agreements to protect the most vulnerable among us. Especially the children. Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…er seven, roger. This is Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage. US SOLDIER 2: One-eight, engage. Clear. US SOLDIER 1: Come on! US SOLDIER 2: Clear. Clear. US SOLDIER 1: We’re engaging. US SOLDIER 3: I got ’em. US SOLDIER 2: Should have a van in the middle of the road with about twelve to fifteen bodies. US SOLDIER 1: Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield! Ha! Democracy Now, in the same segment, asked former U.S. whistleblower Dan Ellsberg…

…l farmers. A mother cradles her clearly malnourished baby in her arms. Now comes word that on March 16th, forty-two Somali people were killed in sustained gunfire from the air as they set forth in a boat attempting to flee Yemen.   “I took cover in the belly of the ship,” said Ibrahim Ali Zeyad, a Somali who survived the attack. “People were falling left and right. Everyone kept screaming, ‘We are Somali! We are Somali!’” But the shooting continue…

…be taken in war. The U.S. naval base at King’s Bay, Georgia houses nuclear-missile-armed Trident submarines. Entering without permission, they hung banners, displayed crime scene tape and poured their blood on the base grounds. They protested the U.S.’ preparations, far exceeding those of any other nation, to commit “omnicide”, to carpet the world in in fire, in fallout, in the snows of a deadly “nuclear winter,” in ash. For the past fifteen mont…

…h, fear and futility worldwide. Yet “holy ground” exists as activists work toward abolition of nuclear weapons. Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…ater, fuel, and funds. The war crushes people through aerial bombing and on-the-ground fighting as well as an insidious economic war.   Yemenis are strangled by import restrictions and blockades, causing non-payment of government salaries, inflation, job losses, and declining or disappearing incomes. Even when food is available, ordinary Yemenis cannot afford it.   Starvation is being used as a weapon of war—by Saudi Arabia, by the United Arab Emi…

…howed remarkable readiness to embrace the courage and vision of the Helmand-to-Kabul peace walk participants. It seems likely that ordinary Afghans, no matter their tribal lineages, share a profound desire to end forty years of war. The 17-year U.S. war in Afghanistan exceeds the lifetimes of the youngsters in Ghazni who greeted the peace walkers.   On June 7th, Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, declared a week-long halt to attacks against th…

…rn their homes to masses of rubble, and alter their lives forever or end their lives before the day is through. Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…

…ctivation of all nuclear weapons. Sharon Tennison’s work to develop citizen-to-citizen diplomacy, since 1983, suggests that people could work together to tackle such problems.   But, informed public opinion in the U.S. and in Russia will be crucially needed. My friend Brad Lyttle, a lead organizer of and participant in the “San Francisco to Moscow Walk” (1960 -1961) recently wrote to President Obama that there is no reason why the U.S. and Russia…

…s. In these challenging times, those eight numbers distinguish him as a fine and invaluable leader to follow.   Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)…