January 10, 2020 Try as I did, I found it impossible to send New Year’s greetings to friends in Iraq given the unthinkable and shameless actions of Trump and his regime in the last weeks.Continue reading
Tag: Iraq Sanctions
Operation Desert Fox at 20 – Brad Simpson
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
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
Voices Rising for Yemen – Final Day
Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine-imperilled Yemen. Details are availableContinue 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