New World Notes - Unshackling Ourselves From War (Second of two parts)

This week on New World Notes: radio program #399, October 27, 2015, Tuesday from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst looks at war and its hidden costs.

Veteran peace activist Kathy Kelly gives a powerful talk on the human costs of the US's elective wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She tells stories of average people caught on the ground in a war zone ... and of US-government-sonsored lies, crimes, and fraud in our conduct of war and our alleged "reconstruction."

She tells stories of the courage of ordinary people in the war zones--people working to ease the suffering and repair the damage to their and their neighbors' lives. And she calls on Americans to "unshackle" ourselves from militarism, the war industry, and endless war.

Kelly--and other members of the organization Voices for Creative Nonviolence--has spent long periods living among the people caught in war zones in Gaza, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Of note in this week's installment: Kelly gives fascinating and outrageous details about the US bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3. Plus a humorous account of Kelly's recent arrest, trial, and imprisonment.

She spoke in Syracuse, New York, on October 6, 2015. Original recording courtesy of Wilton Vought. (See the original at Other Voices, Other Choices.) I have condensed the talk slightly for radio broadcast.

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