by Glen Greenwald In a speech at Northwestern University yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder provided the most detailed explanation yet for why the Obama administration believes it has the authority to secretly…
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 terror drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals
by Chris Woods and Christina Lamb The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau…
U.S. Accused of Using Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan
via Democracy Now! The CIA’s drone campaign targeting suspected militants in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to rescue victims or were attending funerals. So concludes a new report…
U.S. Drones Targeting Rescuers and Mourners
by Glenn Greenwald On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was…
Air America: Under the Imperial Eye
by Chris Floyd One unanticipated benefit of the relentless drive to turn every nook and cranny of the American war machine into a cash cow for private profit is the fact that…
In YouTube Event, Obama Defends Government’s Use of Drones
by Kevin Gosztola Billed as the “first-ever completely virtual interview from the White House,” YouTube and Google+ hosted an event this evening called “Your Interview with the President.” President Barack Obama answered…
Drone Warfare: Obama’s Vast Killing Operation
by Glenn Greenwald I intended to post sporadically or not at all this week, and that’s still my plan, but there is a new Washington Post article which contains three short passages that…
America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases
By Nick Turse They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French…
The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign
by Glenn Greenwald The principal reason so little attention is paid to the constant victims of American violence in the Muslim world is because the U.S. Government refuses to disclose anything about…