Richie Marini | July 6, 2018 On June 27, 2018, a small group of us consisting of members of The World Can’t Wait, Know Drones, Refuse fascism and World Beyond War set up…
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.
Madiha Tahir podcast: Drones & The Military Present
Click To Play This four-part series explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we’ve invited anthropologists to help usmake sense of the current political moment….
Drone Organizers Bulletin
Nick Mottern, Knowdrones.com | January 7, 2018 FOCUS FOR 2018 – AFGHANISTAN. WHAT DO YOU THINK? In the weeks of the winter holidays – spending time with my family, cooking, sending cards,…
Increased Drone Atrocities on the Way
Nick Mottern, Knowdrones.com | March 3, 2017 Will U.S. drone killings increase under Donald Trump? The evidence says “Yes,” in part because expansion of the killer drone program was baked into cake…
First U.S. Drone Strikes Under Trump
World Can’t Wait | January 24, 2017 {jathumbnailoff} Obama’s policy of unprovoked attacks on sovereign nations continues. “The reliability of the determinations on who was slain in any given strike has been in…
3 Years Later, Under Court Order, Obama Administration Releases Redacted Drone Strike “Playbook”
Debra Sweet | August 10, 2016 In May 2013, Obama finally acknowledged the U.S. military targeted killing program, and said he would explain how people are chosen to be killed. But it…
Demand a Truthful Accounting of Drone Strikes
Debra Sweet | July 11, 2016 Yielding to pressure from critics of his killer drone practice, President Obama released fictional figures on civilian casualties this past Friday. In a classic “bury the…
In Saving for Your Future, Are You Supporting Drone Attacks and Prisons?
Amanda Bass and J. Celso Castro Alves, Truthout | May 10, 2016 {jathumbnailoff} Twenty-two-year-old Samantha Morris is a social worker at an Alabama-based nonprofit organization who works hard to attend to the…
Drone Operators Now to be Considered Combatants
Debra Sweet | April 21, 2016 Brian Terrell of Voices for Creative Non Violence writes, “Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III authorized RPA aircrews to log combat time…
Drone victims speak out, ahead of Obama’s civilian deaths estimate
Reprieve | April 21, 2016 A video project launched today by the Guardian and Reprieve details the civilian impact of the US covert drone programme, through the voices of those who have…