Who controls the U.S. military and decides when we go to war? The Constitution says the people via Congress have war-making powers.…
Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly (born 1952) is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
From 2009 to 2019, her activism and writing focused on Afghanistan, Yemen, and Gaza, along with domestic protests against US drone policy. She has been arrested more than sixty times at home and abroad, and written of her experiences among targets of US military bombardment and inmates of US prisons.
There is a refugee trail that goes from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia…
Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan…
Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War.…
A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating…
On this show, we speak with Kathy Kelly about the situation of young women in Afghanistan. Since 2021, she and an ad…
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran…
Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients,…
During our visits to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009 to 2019, young friends who welcomed me and other international guests to their urban…
