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As the United States ends its military presence in Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and war, the Costs of War Project estimates it spent over $2.2 trillion
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.
The U.S. government owes reparations to the civilians of Afghanistan for the past twenty years of war and brutal impoverishment
The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name
“Untitled (drone)” is meant to animate questions “about the use of drones, surveillance, and targeted killings in places far and near”
“It’s not normal for people to live like this,” says Iman Saleh, now on her twelfth day of a hunger strike demanding an end to war in Yemen.
Amid the ongoing horror, it’s important to find ways to atone for war crimes —including reparations
Banning weaponized and surveillance drones would enhance our capacity to work toward meeting human needs
We must not turn away. We must decry the terrible war and blockade. Doing so may help spare the lives of at least some of Yemen’s children. The opportunity to resist this massacre of the innocents rests with us.
People in the United States continue to pretend that the despair and futility we’ve caused isn’t our fault
Interview on a variety of topics