| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Kelly: The Ghost and the Machine
Znet Article, March, 01 2012
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Drone warfare, ever more widely used from month to month from the Bush through the Obama administrations, has seen very little meaningful public debate
Kelly: Cold, Cold Heart
Znet Article, February, 15 2012
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
We lull ourselves into a comforting delusion that we're waging humanitarian wars, and then wonder why people aren't more grateful
Kelly: Much to Forgive: The Story of Bibi Sadia
Znet Article, January, 04 2012
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
A life in Afghanistan
Kelly: Overcoming Contradictions
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
The 72% of Australians who no longer want Australian troops to participate in the U.S./NATO war in Afghanistan will have to work very hard to be heard by their leaders
Kelly: More Lost By the Second
Znet Article, August, 13 2011
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
The U.S. military battles against the so-called insurgency are creating a stronger resistance as more Afghans grow determined to fight back
Kelly: Staying Human: Preparing to Sail to Gaza
Znet Article, June, 28 2011
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
When we find ourselves, against all odds, staying human, it sustains our hope for the power of humanity
Kelly: The Siege of Gaza Must End
Znet Article, June, 19 2011
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
In late June 2011, there will be an international flotilla to break the illegal and deadly Israeli siege of Gaza
Kelly: The Predators: Where is Your Democracy?
Znet Article, May, 13 2011
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Extrajudicial killings by U.S. military forces have become the new norm
Kelly: Hunger and Anger in Afghanistan
Znet Article, December, 12 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
The Obama administration has announced the imminent release of a December Review that will evaluate the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan.
Kelly: Planting the Seeds
Znet Article, October, 31 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Nur Agha Akbari and his family live in Kabul, on an unpaved, pitted street lined by mud brick homes.
Kelly: Bamiyan Diaries Day 3 “You’re Not Alone”
Znet Article, October, 25 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
A week ago, at the small guest house where friends and I stayed while visiting Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers...
Kelly: Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act
Znet Article, July, 05 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
An old cliché says that anyone who has herself for a lawyer has a fool for a client. Nevertheless, going to trial in Washington, DC, this past June 14, I and 23 other defendants prepared a pro se defense. Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aim...
Brollier: Unrest in Pakistan: Moving Beyond U.S. National Interest
Znet Article, June, 20 2010
Josh Brollier
Brollier's ZSpace page
A snapshot of unrest in Pakistan offers a framework for outsiders to understand why it is unfair to insist that Pakistan “do more” to fulfill the United States’ vision for fighting extremism. It may also suggest why strong anti-American sentiments...
Brollier: The World Cup Of Economic And Military Warfare
Znet Article, June, 03 2010
Josh Brollier
Brollier's ZSpace page
Just about everyone we have spoken with, Pashtuns included, has little to no sympathy for the Taliban or their tactics. Many people have lost limbs, homes and loved ones to the brutal assaults of suicide bombers or the indiscriminate violence of I...
Kelly: Unarmed and Courageous: Emergency Workers in Afghanistan
Znet Article, June, 01 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
For six days in late May, 2010, Emergency, an Italian NGO providing surgery and basic health care in Afghanistan since 1999, welcomed us to visit facilities they operate in the capital city of Kabul and in Panjshir, a neighboring province. We live...
Kelly: Drones and Democracy
Znet Article, May, 19 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
On May 12th, the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 24 people in Pakistan’s North Waziristan, two men from the area agreed to tell us their perspective as eyewitnesses of previous drone strikes.
Kelly: Pressured from all sides in Pakistan’s Swat Valley
Znet Article, May, 16 2010
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
In May of 2009, under tremendous pressure from the United States, the Pakistani military began a large-scale military operation in the Swat District of Pakistan to confront militants in the region. The UNHCR said the operation led to one of the la...
Kelly: Now We See You, Now We Don't
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
In early June, 2009, I was in the Shah Mansoor displaced persons camp in Pakistan, listening to one resident detail the carnage which had spurred his and his family's flight there a mere 15 days earlier. Their city, Mingora, had come under massiv...
Kelly: Down and Out in Shah Mansoor
Znet Article, June, 12 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
In Pakistan's Swabi district, a bumpy road leads to Shah Mansoor, a small village surrounded by farmland. Just outside the village, uniform size tents are set up in hundreds of rows.
Kelly: A Closer Look
Znet Article, April, 03 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
It's one thing to study online articles describing the MQ-9 Reapers and MQ-1 Predators. It's quite another to identify these drones as they take off from runways at Nevada's Creech Air Force base, where our "Ground the Drones…Lest We Reap the Wh...
Kelly: How do People Keep Going?
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
People have asked me, since I returned from Gaza, how people manage? How do they keep going after being traumatized by bombing and punished by a comprehensive state of siege? I wonder myself. I know that whether the loss of life is on the Gazan or...
Kelly: Cease Fire, Cease Siege
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Yesterday, en route to the Rafah border crossing that leads into Gaza, our driver pointed to a long line of trucks laden with goods that are desperately needed in every area of Gaza. "You see," he said, "all of this is to help people." Generous p...
Kelly: The Big Voice
Znet Article, August, 10 2008
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny “headquarters” to ask what we thought about organizing a walk from Chicago to St. Paul, arriving just before the ...
Kelly: Cold Shoulders
Znet Article, July, 06 2008
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I've regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out of her native Iraq four years ago by terrifying death threats after her husband, very likely prey to that same threatened vio...
Kelly: Istiklal
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Amman - The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, "Istiklal." The word is found on posters and placards in store windows. It names a major thoroughfare, a hospital and a shopping center. Appreciat...
Kelly: Traveling Light
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Traveling with as light a load as possible is something I long for during long stretches away from home. I routinely discard paperwork and periodicals, “recycle” gifts and give away clothing. But, here in Amman, Jordan, when a ten year-old Iraqi ...
Kelly: She Stands At Every Door
Znet Article, August, 07 2007
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
She Stands At Every Door
Kelly: Dancing in Darkness
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Dancing in Darkness
Kelly: "Attuned to Tom and Jerry"
Znet Article, July, 25 2007
Kathy Kelly
Kelly's ZSpace page
Last week, Umm Daoud, (her name means "Mother of Daoud"), met me and three friends at a bridge t...
