Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Photo: Yemeni children huddle in April 2015 during bombing of a residential neighborhood. by Kathy Kelly, from Voices for Creative Nonviolence, March 28, 2019 ( This article first appeared on the website of The Progressive Magazine.) At 9:30 in the morning of March 26, the entrance to a rural hospital in northwest Yemen, supported by Save the Children, was teeming[…]
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Photo: Young people from the APV Borderfree Center on a field trip to a river on the outskirts of Kabul to study permaculture. ~Dr. Hakim by Kathy Kelly, Published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, February 13, 2019 Hossein, a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APV), which hosted my recent visit to Afghanistan, rolled up his sleeve to show me[…]
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Image: Map of Syria December 17, 2018 from Southfront.org. For full map with legend click here. by Sara Flounders, from the International Action Center, December 24, 2018 The announced withdrawal of the remaining 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria and a partial withdrawal from Afghanistan does not mean an end to the Pentagon’s aggressive militarism and endless U.S. wars – in[…]
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Image: Afghan woman and children, from the village of Dudarek, wait for a humanitarian aid hand out, angled towards women in the area, to begin, in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Nov. 2, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jennifer Cohen/Released) Editor’s note: October 7 is the 17th anniversary of the beginning of the US war on Afghanistan. 17 Years of War[…]
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by David Swanson, Originally published on DavidSwanson.org, September 28, 2018 We expect 17-year-olds to have learned a great deal starting from infancy, and yet full-grown adults have proven incapable of knowing anything about Afghanistan during the course of 17 years of U.S.-NATO war. Despite war famously being the means of Americans learning geography, few can even identify Afghanistan on a[…]
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An Army crew chief aboard a CH-47F Chinook helicopter during a training flight in Afghanistan, March 14, 2018, as part of a joint Army-Air Force exercise. Gregory Brook | U.S. Air Force by Finian Cunningham, Originally published on , Strategic Culture Foundation, August 27, 2018 It may seem paradoxical that any American interest would seek to deliberately prolong the Afghan[…]
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The People’s Peace Movement ( PPM ) walking barefoot to the Northern provinces of Afghanistan, led by a blind member of their group, Zindani. Photo taken from PPM’s Facebook Page by Dr. Hakim Young, from CounterCurrents, August 21, 2018 It’s frustrating that whereas all human beings wish to live meaningful lives, we seem helpless in the face of a few[…]
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Photo: Girls and mothers, waiting for their duvets, in Kabul. Credit Dr. Hakim. by Kathy Kelly, originally published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, June 26, 2018 Writing this week for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman called a U.S. Government report on the war in Afghanistan “a chronicle of futility.” “The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction” report says the U.S.[…]
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