https://znetwork.org/author/kathykelly/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:12:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/kathykelly/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-moment-of-hope-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-moment-of-hope-in-gaza/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292897 On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their white coats, they stood in front of the ruined façade of what was formerly Gaza’s largest hospital, the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. As a backdrop, the destroyed building realistically conveys perils the graduates faced while [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-moment-of-hope-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-genocide-is-wrong/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-genocide-is-wrong/#respond Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:31:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292127 Israel and its partners continue waging genocide against Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7, 2023, now face ongoing jeopardy. Hemmed in by yet another military border, over two million Palestinians in “East Gaza” live amid rubble, unexploded ordnance, decaying corpses, starvation conditions, and the uncertainties of inhabiting [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-genocide-is-wrong/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazafication-of-the-west-bank/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazafication-of-the-west-bank/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:05:00 +0000 Please also consider joining a webinar (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RkidkfT6R662744002iSGQ#/registration) at 4pm PT / 7pm ET on December 7th, hosted by “The JFK Peace Speech Committee,” which invited Kathy Kelly to comment on the speech JFK delivered at American University. Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues, and new war crimes are alleged against people in the West Bank. Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gazafication-of-the-west-bank/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/winter-is-coming-to-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/winter-is-coming-to-gaza/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291120 The most urgent task, to end genocide, requires truthful coverage about Israel’s war crimes.  On Saturday, 8 November, 2025, Dan Perry wrote in The Jerusalem Post about Israel’s projected lifting of the media blockade on Gaza. Perry laments that Israeli censorship has left all reporting of the atrocity in the hands of Palestinians, who refuse to be silent. To date, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/winter-is-coming-to-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-will-not-be-silent-hearing-stilled-voices-of-the-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-will-not-be-silent-hearing-stilled-voices-of-the-gaza-genocide/#respond Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:45:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288228 In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Israeli tanks. His captors awaited him amid the rubble of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital. An artist swiftly created a dramatic poster showing Dr. Safiya striding through the ruins of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-will-not-be-silent-hearing-stilled-voices-of-the-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kathy-kelly-on-afghanistan-and-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kathy-kelly-on-afghanistan-and-gaza/#respond Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:56:00 +0000 This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking with Kathy Kelly, President of World BEYOND War, about a new book and an upcoming online book club, and about the latest developments in Gaza and what to do about it. The book is called Our Journey from Afghanistan: A Story of Survival and Hope.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/kathy-kelly-on-afghanistan-and-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prisons-of-gaza-and-home-fast-for-gaza-day-14/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prisons-of-gaza-and-home-fast-for-gaza-day-14/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284599 Here at the United Nations in New York City, the Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution calling on all parties to respect an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The slaughter in Gaza entraps and attacks the helpless, turning shelters into mass graves, erasing entire families, weaponizing nutrition and famine. The spiraling [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prisons-of-gaza-and-home-fast-for-gaza-day-14/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-were-so-close-life-after-conscience-and-the-abraham-accords/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-were-so-close-life-after-conscience-and-the-abraham-accords/#respond Thu, 08 May 2025 15:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283474 “We were so close,” Cassandra Dixon wrote, from Malta -where she had hoped to board Conscience, the aptly named Freedom Flotilla ship which two weaponized drones bombed on May 2, 2025, almost certainly launched by Israel. Cassandra had traveled to Malta after spending six weeks in Masafer Yatta, the West Bank region where, for two months, she lived among [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-were-so-close-life-after-conscience-and-the-abraham-accords/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-franciss-legacy-of-love-and-peace/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-franciss-legacy-of-love-and-peace/#respond Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282952 In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus, Latin for Francis, is the name Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose when, twelve years ago, cardinals elected him to become the Bishop of Rome. He sought union with Saint Francis, known as one who lived on the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pope-franciss-legacy-of-love-and-peace/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/#respond Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:49:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281793 Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other signs say: “Put a human face on war in Yemen,” and “Let Yemen Live.” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dr-martin-luther-kings-prophetic-warning-denouncing-the-merchants-of-death/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dr-martin-luther-kings-prophetic-warning-denouncing-the-merchants-of-death/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:44:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278386 Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dr-martin-luther-kings-prophetic-warning-denouncing-the-merchants-of-death/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-maryhouse-stage-power-politics-and-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-maryhouse-stage-power-politics-and-war/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:58:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275673 In mid-November, New York’s Catholic Worker community, located in lower Manhattan, opened their sizable auditorium to host “Reap What You Sow: Don’t Lose Heart!” a two act play with two actors which debuted, for two nights, on the Maryhouse stage. Prior to the performance, preparations included selecting the sturdiest wooden chairs for audience seating, carefully [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-maryhouse-stage-power-politics-and-war/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-will-the-general-assembly-suspend-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-will-the-general-assembly-suspend-israel/#respond Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:57:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1275485 The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him. Issues of evil, justice, and divine wisdom are explored, and while the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-will-the-general-assembly-suspend-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hanging-on-with-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hanging-on-with-gaza/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:17:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271608 During a week of action focused on UN potential to end Israel’s genocidal attacks, I was part of a coalition that met with twelve different permanent missions to the United Nations. We urged that if countries that are parties to the Genocide Convention or the Geneva Conventions stop trading with Israel as international law demands, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hanging-on-with-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-must-oppose-israels-dangerous-gamble-before-its-too-late/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-must-oppose-israels-dangerous-gamble-before-its-too-late/#respond Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:07:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270548 Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.”  “Leave or die” are the horrid words threatening largely unprotected Palestinian civilians in Gaza as dismayed populations [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-must-oppose-israels-dangerous-gamble-before-its-too-late/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unfurling-love-from-the-window/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unfurling-love-from-the-window/#respond Wed, 08 May 2024 16:51:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1266058 On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” dropping a large banner out the windows above the building’s entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States. The students [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unfurling-love-from-the-window/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:49:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1263688 In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland food [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-starvation-is-a-weapon-the-harvest-is-shame/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-assaulting-hospitals-in-gaza-with-full-u-s-support/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-assaulting-hospitals-in-gaza-with-full-u-s-support/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262479 Many decades ago in Chicago, I operated the telephone switchboard at a small hospital called Forkosh Memorial. The console of coils and plugs included a mirror so operators could keep an eye on the hospital entrance, which on weekends and evenings was also monitored by an elderly, unarmed security guard named Frank. He sat at [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-assaulting-hospitals-in-gaza-with-full-u-s-support/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/predicting-pestilence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/predicting-pestilence/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258912 Speaking from a hospital ward about fifty meters from where a bomb had just exploded, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder raised his voice over the sound of children screaming. In a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), he emphasized that Gaza’s health care system is overwhelmed. Pointing at children packed into the ward of a hospital he said [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/predicting-pestilence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tunnels-for-safety-and-tunnels-for-death/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tunnels-for-safety-and-tunnels-for-death/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257972 It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another to use one hand, as a small child, to try and dig your way out of the rubble that has collapsed upon you. Professor [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tunnels-for-safety-and-tunnels-for-death/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/calling-for-a-pause-in-israels-assault-on-gaza-isnt-enough/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/calling-for-a-pause-in-israels-assault-on-gaza-isnt-enough/#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:58:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257232 Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of  Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli military deployed its navy, air force and army against the people living in Gaza, using U.S.-supplied weapons and killing 1,383 Palestinians, of whom 333 were children. I remember a doctor at the Al Shifa hospital, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/calling-for-a-pause-in-israels-assault-on-gaza-isnt-enough/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/merchants-of-death-war-crimes-tribunal/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/merchants-of-death-war-crimes-tribunal/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:36:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257054 “More and more, we see that you can’t conduct a war without war crimes. And that raises a whole other issue about whether war is any longer, or ever was, an acceptable behavior. We felt that leaving the corporations out of this equation with respect to morality and conscience was a huge problem because there’s so much [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/merchants-of-death-war-crimes-tribunal/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-is-the-u-s-military-in-syria/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-is-the-u-s-military-in-syria/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1255008 Who controls the U.S. military and decides when we go to war? The Constitution says the people via Congress have war-making powers. But in reality, it is corporations who so often take us to war: weapons makers and fossil fuel companies. War is Big Money for these corporate predators.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-is-the-u-s-military-in-syria/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-human-rights-in-relations-with-saudi-arabia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-human-rights-in-relations-with-saudi-arabia/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:37:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1253416 There is a refugee trail that goes from the Sahel drought region in Africa, into war-ravaged Yemen, and up through Saudi Arabia towards Iraq and Turkey. It’s known as “the Eastern route,” or sometimes “the Yemeni route.” The Saudi monarchy, already leading an eight-year starvation and bombardment campaign against Iran-aligned, rebel-governed Yemen, has been massacring [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/prioritizing-human-rights-in-relations-with-saudi-arabia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-right-to-seek-safety/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-right-to-seek-safety/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248243 Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their baby son, Arsalan. The young family has resettled in Mértola, a small city in southern Portugal. They looked forward to celebrating World Refugee Day as part of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-right-to-seek-safety/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-solomons-war-made-invisible-refutes-collusion-with-war-makers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-solomons-war-made-invisible-refutes-collusion-with-war-makers/#respond Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1247836 Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its military machine Following a string of U.S. “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, often riveting novels, memoirs, and analyses have been published. Talented authors have aimed to promote understanding about the human cost [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/norman-solomons-war-made-invisible-refutes-collusion-with-war-makers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brotherhood-and-friendship-in-a-time-of-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brotherhood-and-friendship-in-a-time-of-war/#respond Tue, 30 May 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246779 Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War. Salman Rushdie once commented that those who are displaced by war are the shining shards that reflect the truth. With so many people fleeing wars and ecological collapse in our world today, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/brotherhood-and-friendship-in-a-time-of-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-end-all-wars-close-all-bases/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-end-all-wars-close-all-bases/#respond Tue, 02 May 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1245449 A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating a portion of every day to continue researching the extent and impact of USA foreign bases.  What is Mohammad Abunahel learning, and how can we support him? On the few occasions when a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/to-end-all-wars-close-all-bases/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/face-2-face-with-kathy-kelly/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/face-2-face-with-kathy-kelly/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:19:42 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1243075 On this show, we speak with Kathy Kelly about the situation of young women in Afghanistan. Since 2021, she and an ad hoc circle of internationals have assisted young Afghans to resettle in safer havens. She co-coordinates the BanKillerDrones.org campaign, is board President of World BEYOND War, and is planning the 2023 Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/face-2-face-with-kathy-kelly/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blood-does-not-wash-away-blood/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blood-does-not-wash-away-blood/#comments Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1241372 The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that major powers can benefit from believing that, as Albert Camus once put it, “words are more powerful than munitions.” This concept was also acknowledged by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blood-does-not-wash-away-blood/feed/ 1