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Commentary Kelly: Thanking Bradley Manning

Commentary, May, 30 2013 Kathy Kelly
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I hope many more of us will devote the time and energy we owe this young man for risking everything, as he did, to enlighten us and the world

Commentary Kelly: War Without End

Commentary, March, 20 2013 Kathy Kelly
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The effects of the U.S. bombings continue, immeasurably and indefensibly

Commentary Kelly: In Kabul, Widows and Orphans Move Up

Commentary, January, 08 2013 Kathy Kelly
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The women I visited today are moving on up; single desperate mothers with children moving up the slope into a cold vacuum, fleeing the streets of a city that can't feed or use them

Commentary Kelly: No One Hears the Poor

Commentary, May, 29 2012 Kathy Kelly
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“For us, the possibility of a bright future is over, but at least for our children there is a chance”

Commentary Kelly: Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard

Commentary, April, 21 2012 Kathy Kelly
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The military and militant apparatus does not have human ears. It has bombs

Commentary Kelly: Assembly Time

Commentary, December, 28 2011 Kathy Kelly
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There is simply no predicting what we may be building with the work we do now

Commentary Kelly: Following Yonder Star

Commentary, December, 25 2011 Kathy Kelly
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The desires to live more simply, to share resources more radically, and to prefer service to dominance are not unique to any place, season, or religion

Commentary Kelly: Big Shoulders in Chicago and Kabul

Commentary, December, 19 2011 Kathy Kelly
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NATO leaders continue to prepare for conflict further and further from the North Atlantic shores

Commentary Kelly: Incalculable

Commentary, March, 04 2011 Kathy Kelly
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Recent polls suggest that while a majority of U.S. people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only three percent took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections.

Commentary Kelly: “War Does This to Your Mind”

Commentary, October, 24 2010 Kathy Kelly
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Khamad Jan, age 22, remembers that, as a youngster, he was a good student who enjoyed studying. “Now, I can’t seem to think,” he said sadly, looking at the ground. There was a long pause. “War does this to your mind.”

Commentary Kelly: Banning Slaughter

Commentary, September, 19 2010 Kathy Kelly
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In the early 1970’s, I spent two summers slinging pork loins in a Chicago meat-packing factory. Rose Packing Company paid a handful of college students $2.25 an hour to process pork.

Commentary Kelly: Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act

Commentary, June, 26 2010 Kathy Kelly
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An old cliché says that anyone who has herself for a lawyer has a fool for a client. Nevertheless, going to trial in Washington, D.C., this past June 14, I and twenty-three other defendants prepared a pro se defense. Acting as our own lawyers in...

Commentary Kelly: Pacified

Commentary, March, 31 2010 Kathy Kelly
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If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed aga...

Commentary Kelly: Speaking Truth to Power

Commentary, January, 10 2010 Kathy Kelly
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There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power." One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the Presidential Administration of the United States. This past October, stu...

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