Remember in the Bush era when little things like the Patriot Act and warrantless eavesdropping and military commissions were the Radical and Lawless Assaults Trampling on Our Constitution and Our Values? by…
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.
Drones, or Boys and Their Toys: The USA’S Latest Strategy for Unending War
by Kathleen Barry The work of the US military is to kill, its pretext – defense of the homeland. It has succeeded in training soldiers, mostly young men, to kill without remorse, that…
Naming Those Killed in US Drone Strikes
by Kevin Gosztola When drone strikes kill people, rarely do news media bother to name those dead from the attack if they are not alleged by some official to be an al…
Obama’s Death Panels: Jeremy Scahill at the Drone Summit [VIDEO]
The “signature strikes” are anything but surgical. by Kevin Gosztola Activists, lawyers, human rights advocates, civil liberties defenders and others came together for a major international summit on drone warfare and the…
The CIA’s Push to Expand ‘Killer Drone’ Operations in Yemen
by Kevin Gosztola The CIA is pushing for the authority to expand drone operations and would like permission to attack “terrorism suspects,” even if they are not certain those people being attacked…
The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret
by Michael Hastings One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. The drone’s mission:…
Anti-Drone Activist Denied Visa to Visit U.S.
by Murtaza Hussain “If the U.S. believes in the rule of law, it should not be hindering advocacy of claims against the CIA for wrongful death and injury.” Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani…
kNOw Drones!
A “reaper” replica spurs sidewalk conversations about drone warfare outside New York’s Museum of Modern Art, click to watch. “The goals of this tour are an end to US drone warfare and…
US Drone Strikes Surged During Yemen Uprising
by Kevin Gosztola A new study out from the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) provides some of the clearest accounting yet of the United States’ covert war on terror in Yemen,…
Video: Left Forum Panel on Stopping the US Drone War
A Chilling Feature of the US War of Terror, Expanded by Obama Administration to Include Targeted Assassinations Organized by War Criminals Watch Debra Sweet: Continue watching: Zohra Ahmed: Ed Kinane: Discussion…