Archive - Kathy Gannon's Substack

The Road to hell is paved with good intentions

Ask Afghans evacuated to Pakistan, who are now living in refugee hell

Aug 19 •

Afghanistan after nearly three years away

For me Afghanistan is the people, the friends I have known for decades, and others I meet on the street, who smile, ask if they can help, put their hand…

Aug 13 •

July 2025

America buries report revealing no evidence of routine Hamas looting to allow Israel to starve Palestinians

Reuters investigative team reveals USAID said no evidence of massive looting by Hamas. NYTimes also reporting similar. The killing by starvation is…

Jul 26 •

To our Gaza colleagues: Forgive us, even as I am ashamed to ask

We as non-Gazan journalists have done too little to tell your stories, demand our leaders speak out, hold Israel accountable, forcing you instead to…

Jul 23 •

Policy Magazine: On Being Canadian: From Timmins to Afghanistan, More Than Not Being American

Published in Policy Magazine: Canadian Politics and Public Policy

Jul 18 •

Russia Accepts Taliban as Afghanistan's Government. Does it even matter?

The short answer; Not really

Jul 6 •

June 2025

"My eyes went to heaven before I did," a blind 5-year old Palestinian child, among the tens of thousands of children forever scarred by…

UNICEF: 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed, injured, maimed, disappeared, buried beneath the rubble or in mass graves in Israel's slaughter in…

Jun 29 •

NATO now North Atlantic Trump Organization Rutte humiliated himself and the NATO members with his sycophantic note to Trump

By Kathy Gannon

Jun 26 •

Peace Through Strength: Philosophy spewed by the weak and the corrupt

Today's world leaders have no vision, no capacity for diplomacy and their strength is not in their values but in their willingness to use their bombs…

Jun 22 •

Gruesome Video Reveals Militant Hub Thrives in Pakistan's Troubled Baluchistan Province

24 years after 9/11 brought the world to Afghanistan to wage a war on terror, a cacophony of militant groups flourish in Pakistan and Afghanistan and no…

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Something I wrote for the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Centre reflecting on how we do our jobs as journalists. Written before our shameful coverage of…

May 31 •

Again: Never Again is Now. How have we watched for so long and done so little? Where does it end?

To the more than 6 million Jews so brutally murdered in the holocaust forgive us our silence; To all the Palestinians who are being so brutally killed…

May 20 •

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