October 7, 2014 For several years, organized by the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars, hundreds of people have taken part in non violence civil resistance outside Hancock…
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.
Drone Memo Concentrates What’s Not Legit about US Targeted Killing
Debra Sweet | July 8, 2014 Since 2009, when Obama began the targeted killing rampage in Pakistan & Yemen, killing uncounted thousands, World Can’t Wait has demanded an end to it. Others…
Drone Attack Victims Need Orders of Protection!
The Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars | July 7, 2014 1st Hancock Air Base Order of Protection Defendant Facing 1 Year Sentencing July 10th Syracuse, NY. …
The Three Faces of Drone War
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…
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…