Not Forgotten by Kenneth Bae

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church, freedom, god, Kenneth Bae, North Korea, prison, release, rev. jesse jackson

I endorsed a new book, Not Forgotten by Kenneth Bae.  

Rev. Jesse Jackson and I worked on Kenneth Bae’s release efforts from a North Korean prison. We met with the North Korean Ambassador to the UN, wrote numerous articles and 11 letters to the North Korean government.

It was wonderful to get the news of his release and meet with him in Seattle.

Read Bae’s new book to find out more.

Chris Hedges: No Other Way Out

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Afghanistan, Chris Hedges, freedom, Iraq, justice, Op-Ed, Taliban, Truthout, veterans, war, WikiLeaks

This is a repost of Chris Hedges’ original Op-Ed for Truthout.  It was originally posted on Feb 28, 2012 and is reposted here with permission.

I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling end over end through their small, delicate frames, appear to me almost daily like faint and sadly familiar ghosts. The frailty and innocence of my own children make these images difficult to bear.

A child a day dies in war-related violence in Afghanistan. Children die in roadside explosions. They die