This is a talk Debra Sweet gave in Madison, Wisconsin in late May at the Veterans for Peace Memorial Day Commemoration: I am so glad to be here in Madison, and to…
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.
Obama’s Killer Drones
by Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected militants; the Obama administration assassinates them. Both practices not only visit more hatred upon the United States; they are…
UN Expert: CIA Drone Strikes “A War Crime”
by Jack Serle The UN’s expert on extrajudicial killings has described a tactic used by the CIA and first exposed by a Bureau investigation as ‘a war crime’. Earlier this year the Bureau…
In Drones We Trust: Christians and the Kill List
By William Alberts In broad daylight, without a Christian murmur, President Obama has placed a “kill list” on the altar of “American values.” An unconstitutional, international law-violating, indifferent to innocent civilians, anti-American-breeding…
Obama’s Killing Machine
By Chris Woods Revelations that President Barack Obama presides over key aspects of secret kill-list machinery that has sentenced thousands to death by drone have disturbed many. Torture and extraordinary rendition under…
Unspeakable Things: The Liberals’ Clumsy Dance Across Obama’s Killing Floor
by Chris Floyd The turbulent ramifications of last week’s New York Times story detailing the operations of Barack Obama’s White House death squad continue to reverberate across the country today, sending shock…
Scahill: Obama has ‘murdered’ people with drone strikes
by Andrew Jones Upset over President Barack Obama’s “kill list” and continued usage of drone striking throughout his administration, The Nation‘s national security correspondent Jeremy Scahill called the commander-in-chief’s actions “murderous.” Appearing…
Obama’s Passion for Drones
by Andy Worthington Last week, a major article in the New York Times painted a grim portrait of how President Obama has taken over from George W. Bush as the “commander in…
Media, Drones and Rank Propaganda
by Glen Greenwald Several items recently relate to the issue of gross U.S. media propaganda and Obama’s national security policies: (1) I have an Op-Ed in The Guardian today on how the American…
The Kill List of Barack Obama
by Ray McGovern In an extraordinary article in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” authors Jo Becker and Scott Shane throw macabre light…