…co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). While in Kabul, she is a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (www.ourjourneytosmile.com)  …

…ithout fixing inequality or war.   Everyone and everything is related! We just can’t separate ourselves from each other, from the earth, or from you!   Okay, thanks for listening to our dreams. We’ve taken up enough of your screen time. So let’s get off screen, terminate our business as-as-usual, and pursue the authentic relationships all of us long for.   Remember, we make up 64% of the Afghan population below 25. We’re the new Earth GENeration….

…lives of women and children in Afghanistan. If people in the U.S. could become knowledgeable and well-educated about the world being shaped in their name, about the lives and hopes being disfigured by U.S. wars and weapons, they might resist pouring crucially needed resources down the rat hole of military spending. We have a chance to help at least some women here in Kabul. Some of these women won’t have to go away. Some will gain the chance to s…

…ya at Axis of Logic, https://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/coles.shtml   3. BBC News Online, ‘UN to impose sanctions on Libyan militia leaders’, 27 August, 2014, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28959587   4. Allurentis and UKTI, ‘Libya: Discovering Business 2014/2015’, 2014, https://the-mea.co.uk/sites/default/files/Libya-Discovering%20Business%202014.pdf…

…uly, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/iran-nuclear-talks-comprehensive-deal-to-be-announced-as-early-as-monday See my, ‘Tragic Iraq parallel’, Axis of Logic, 5 December, 2012, https://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_65189.shtml   Presidential Task Force, ‘Preventing a cascade of instability’, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 2009, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PTF-Iran.pdf    …

…ple envision nations in the region making progress toward a nuclear weapons-free Middle East.   In fact, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jawad Zarif, spoke eloquently about just that possibility, in 2015, holding that “if the Vienna deal is to mean anything, the whole of the Middle East must rid itself of weapons of mass destruction.” “Iran,” he added, “is prepared to work with the international community to achieve these goals, knowing full w…

…first production unit. This plant is responsible for producing 39 major non-nuclear component assemblies of the B61-12. The trillion-dollar program of extending the lives of nuclear weapons is at odds with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, ratified into law by the United States, flouting Article VI of the treaty, which requires “all Parties undertake to pursue good-faith negotiations on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear a…

…Houthi rebels with cluster bombs, laser-guided missiles and littoral (near-coastal) combat ships to blockade ports vital to famine relief. Iran does not provide in-air refueling for warplanes used in daily bombing runs over Yemen. The U.S. has sold all of these to countries in the Saudi-led coalition which have, in turn, used these weapons to destroy Yemen’s infrastructure as well as create chaos and exacerbate suffering among civilians in Yemen….

…civilians with misleading statements, outright denials and attempted cover-ups.   For example, On August 30th, 2015, according to Human Rights Watch, a Saudi coalition led airstrike attacked the Al-Sham Water Bottling Factory in the outskirts of Abs, in northern Yemen. The strike destroyed the factory and killed 14 workers, including three boys, and wounded 11 more.   Later on August 30, after the airstrike, Gen. Al-Asiri told Reuters that the pl…