by Sarah Leo The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has been recording every reported CIA drone strike in Pakistan. The result is our extensive database which details every known attack and the numbers killed in…
Category: Covert Drone War
The use of Predator and Reaper drones (unmanned flying vehicles that are often armed with video-guided missiles) by the US military and CIA is a largely untold story of the “Global War on Terror / Global Contingency Operation” – yet has caused thousands of deaths in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of whom are women and children.
Drone Protesters Convicted in Missouri
From Brian Terrell Good friends, Yesterday’s trial and all the events surrounding it were amazing. Some truth was told in the courtroom, a rare event in a venue more conducive to obfuscation…
Holding the US to Account for Civilian Drone Deaths in Yemen
by Chris Woods When news flashed of an airstrike on two cars in the city of Radaa on Sunday afternoon, early claims that ‘al Qaeda militants’ had died soon gave way to…
U.S Drones Strikes Target Rescuers in Pakistan
by Glenn Greenwald The US government has long maintained, reasonably enough, that a defining tactic of terrorism is to launch a follow-up attack aimed at those who go to the scene of…
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Put the Drones on Trial!
From Voices for Creative Non-Violence Join Ramsey Clark, Kathy Kelly, Ann Wright and Bill Quigley Come to Missouri to Join Experts in Constitutional and International Law Supporting Activists in First Anti-Drone Trial…
The New York Times Drones on About the Morality of Drones
“…it may be a surprise to find some moral philosophers, political scientists, and weapons specialists believe unmanned aircraft offer marked moral advantages over almost any other tool of warfare.” —Scott Shane, national…
Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on U.S. Citizens
“the question is whether the government is justified in killing without charging them or trying them for anything.” By David Kravets Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen…
For Obama’s Lethal Presidency, New Suit Aims at Justice
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16 yr. old American who was killed in Yemen by a drone strike. By Tom Junod It was a pre-emptive strike against a pre-emptive strike. When Nasser al-Awlaki found…
The Cowardice of the Drone Pilots
by Glenn Greenwald The effort to depict drone warfare as some sort of courageous and noble act is intensifying: The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on…