…here are the resources, the funding, to do this? I think it’s important to examine the so-called security U.S. people purchase through funding the U.S. military and demand redirection of these resources. Money entrusted to the Pentagon and a vast array of military contractors must be spent to meet human needs.   Maybe this series of questions could help. Could I ever imagine myself paying for materials to assemble Molotov Cocktails for use as weap…

…ds that left more than 177 dead and hundreds more still missing at the time- in some places the rivers rose to the highest in over 100 years, possibly higher than any seen in the last 1,000 years. Participation in the annual “International Week” in the COVID pandemic was already hampered by the fact that it was held just days after Germany opened its borders to vaccinated visitors from places like the US, and by July 15, the day after my own arriv…

…delusional idealists. Yet cooperation is the only way forward.  The “realist” option leads to collective suicide. Photo caption: the gate at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, with the barren “parade ground” visible Photo credit: Creative Commons image Matt Gannon is a student researching housing insecurity. Kathy Kelly’s peace activism has sometimes led her to war zones and prisons.(kathy.vcnv@gmail.com)  She is board President of World BEYOND Wa…

…ominance, and insist on zero tolerance for starvation. This article first appeared in The Progressive Magazine. Photo: Sana’a, Yemen Photo Credit: Rod Waddington via Flickr Kathy Kelly (kathy.vcnv@gmail.com) is a peace activist whose efforts at times have led her to war zones and prisons. She co-coordinates the Ban Killer Drones Campaign and is board President of World BEYOND War….

…I’ve also ordered my commanders to develop operational plans to strike ISIS-K assets, leadership and facilities. We will respond with force and precision at our time, at the place we choose and the moment of our choosing.” The president’s threatened “moment of our choosing” came one day later, on Friday, August 27, when the U.S. military carried out a drone strike against what it said was an ISIS-K “planner” in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar prov…

…recover, but because war was raging outside the hospital, administrators recommended that the family come the next day. “She’s safer here,” they said. The child was among those killed by the U.S. attacks, which recurred at fifteen minute intervals, for an hour and a half, even though MSF had already issued desperate pleas begging the United States and NATO forces to stop bombing the hospital.  Dr. Liu’s sad observations seemed to echo in the words…

…anced and powerful in world history, far ahead of any conceivable group of competitors, and providing more authority to the military to act free from civilian control. ‘America first’, with a big fist but no nonsense about diplomacy and ‘soft power’.   How do you see the future of global trade under Trump? Trump claims to be opposed to the [Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] deals, but has given no indica…

…nd hope of the present. If we close our eyes we can put ourselves in an all-too-plausible future where our resources are gone, and the human community, and the world is already barren, and by implication not worth working to save. That’s when we need to become someone willing to live and work for a rock. Back at home, and growing in part out of Occupy Sandy’s grassroots humanitarian response to the recent climate-driven disaster in New York, the D…

…ents and newly arrived Yemenis who seek asylum in South Korea. Jeju, a visa-free port, has been an entry point for close to 500 Yemenis who have traveled nearly 5000 miles in search of safety. Traumatized by consistent bombing, threats of imprisonment and torture, and the horrors of starvation, recent migrants to South Korea, including children, yearn for refuge. Like many thousands of others who’ve fled Yemen, they miss their families, their neig…

…ough policy dictate our lives. Climate change and global governance go hand-in-hand. PIPR: What’s next for the film? MM: I am planning on attending the “Our Common Future Under Climate Change” meeting in Paris France in July. This meeting is expected to address specifics about the planned climate agreement in December. I will be learning what specific mandates; legislation and other initiatives are planned for the agreements. We, of course, will b…