Twenty years ago today on December 16, 1998 Pres. Bill Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox, an illegal, unjustified military attack on Iraq in which the US attacked 100 targets with cruise missiles. I traveled toContinue reading
Category: Iraq
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East – Kathy Kelly
(Photo: 11 month old Wadah Askri Mesheel in a Yemen clinic, eight hours before his death from malnutrition. Credit: Tyler Hicks/NYT) November 29, 2018 On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holdingContinue reading
Who Calls Anyone “Civilized?” – Cathy Breen
Photo: Building in Mosul decimated by bombing, March 2018. Abu Mohammed. March 31, 2018 Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and professor of Creative Writing at Texas State. Her father was Palestinian and a refugeeContinue reading
English for Reconciliation in Najaf – Martha Hayward
Our friend Martha Hayward writes of her recent visit to Najaf in Southern Iraq. Photos are from Voices collaborator Cathy Breen’s time with the project in Fall 2017. An Open Letter on Behalf of theContinue reading
Beyond “Opposing the Trump Agenda” 1/20/2018
By Brian Terrell On January 20, 2018, in Columbia, Missouri, more than 1600 people participated in the Solidarity Rally and March, hosted by Our Revolution: Mid-Missouri. I was one of five speakers invited to addressContinue reading
The Quality of Mercy – by Kathy Kelly
November 22, 2017 During the spring of 1999, as part of Voices in the Wilderness’s campaign to end indiscriminately lethal U.S./U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, the Fellowship of Reconciliation arranged for two Nobel Peace laureates,Continue reading
Kathy Kelly in Madison Nov 9
Trillions for the Military: Will That Make Us Secure? Nov 9, 2017 7:00 PM Edgewood College-Predolin Humanities Center, Anderson Auditorium 1000 Edgewood College Dr. , Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative NonviolenceContinue reading
Teaching English in Najaf
Najaf, Iraq, October 25 2017 Each day in the English conversation class we focus on a different theme. We have been going from easier topics, like greetings, directions, food shopping and cooking to more difficultContinue reading
Cathy Breen’s letter from Najaf, Iraq
Najaf, Iraq, October 24, 2017 Dear friends, We just got back from a brief outing in the old city. It was bustling as thousands of pilgrims are descending on Najaf and Karbala from Pakistan, Bangladesh,Continue reading