Pratap Chatterjee | May 11, 2014 Speaking Truth From the Robotic Heavens Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with…
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 & Dirty Wars, Prelude to Drone Days of Action 2014
Cat Watters | April 2, 2014 A live program & international webcast in support of the Spring Days of Action – 2014, a coordinated campaign in April and May to End Drone…
Bereaved Yemenis to Launch National Drone Victims’ Organisation
Reprieve.org | March 28, 2014 A group of people who have lost loved ones to US drone strikes in Yemen will next week (Tuesday April 1) launch a national organisation with the…
US Media Ignores 7 US Drone Strikes On Yemen In First 12 Days Of March
Rania Khalek | March 17, 2014 We already know that ignoring America’s extrajudicial killings of unnamed brown people halfway across the world is uninteresting to most US media outlets. But this month,…
Obama’s Drone “Reforms”—More Assassinations, More War Crimes
Larry Everest | February 17, 2014 Last May 23, in a major speech on the “war on terror,” President Barack Obama claimed he was instituting new, more extensive legal oversight of U.S….
Ed Kinane Tells Judge Why He Protests Drone Killing
Ed Kinane | February 3, 2014 “…the Trespass and Disordered Conduct of those drones are not a defense against terrorism, but rather embody terrorism and may well generate retaliatory terrorism” Ed Kinane,…
More Than 2,400 Dead as Obama’s Drone Campaign Marks Five Years
Jack Serle | January 23, 2014 Obama has launched over 390 covert drone strikes in his first five years in office Five years ago, on January 23 2009, a CIA drone flattened…
I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
Heather Linebaugh | December 29, 2013 Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn’t) Whenever I read comments…
Voices from the Drone Summit
Marjorie Cohn | November 16, 2013 “…when the other four men died – a result of ‘guilt by association’ – Hale realized he ‘was no longer part of something moral or sane…
Yemeni Civil Engineer, Who Had Two Family Members Killed by Drone, to Address Congress Members
Kevin Gosztola | November 18, 2013 A Yemeni civil engineer, who spoke at the 2013 Drone Summit organized by the peace group, CODEPINK, has come to the United States to share his…