Kathy Kelly

  • Stilled voices

    A man walks through the rubble of a destroyed section of a school-turned-camp following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on March 18, 2025. — AFPIn...

  • Stilled voices

    Stilled voices

    A man walks through the rubble of a destroyed section of a school-turned-camp following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on March 18, 2025. — AFPIn...

  • Restoring hope

    A gathering titled ‘No War 2022’ – hosted by World Beyond War and taking place July 8-10 – will consider major and growing threats faced in...

  • An end to war?

    For many years, the United States claimed its mission in Afghanistan improved the lives of Afghan women and children. But essentially, the US war...

  • Twenty years of war

    Earlier this week, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to...

  • Stop the sanctions

    US sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the US...

  • So many lives

    Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up Gaza. Last week, while addressing Chicago activists committed to ending...

  • Afghan peace

    Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group of volunteers...

  • A respectful welcome

    Several days ago, I joined an unusual Skype call originated by young South Korean founders of ‘The Hope School’. Located on Jeju Island, the...

  • Mutual trust

    Glancing upward at one of the six US manufactured aerostat blimps performing constant surveillance over Kabul, I wonder if the expensively high-tech...

  • Surveillance in Kabul

    In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the US military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and...

  • Flowers from Guantanamo

    Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward to learning more about ‘The Tea Project’ in late December, when Aaron...