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…
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.
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…
Yemeni Man To Meet With Congress About US Drone Strikes That Killed His Relatives
Rania Khalek | November 11, 2013 “The villagers marched the next day, chanting: ‘Obama, why do you spill our blood?’” Faisal bin ali Jaber, a Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a…
The Illegality, Illegitimacy & Immorality of U.S. Drone Strikes
Larry Everest | November 4, 2013 For the past 12 years, following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has been waging what it initially called a global “war on…
New Films on US Drone Wars
October 30, 2013 Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars For a limited time, you can stream Robert Greenwald’s new film for free. In Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars, the eighth full-length feature documentary from Brave…
A Drone Warrior’s Torment: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killing
Democracy Now! | October 25, 2013 We look at how the United States uses drones in war, and their impact, through the eyes of one of the first U.S. drone operators to…
The Dirtiness of U.S. Drone War
Debra Sweet | October 23, 2013 Almost 5 years after the spike in U.S. use of targeted killing of people via drone by the Obama administration (thousands have been killed), the United…
The United Nations… of Drones?
Debra Sweet | September 26, 2013 This week World Can’t Wait joins kNOwdrones.com and Granny Peace Brigade in ambitious outreach across Manhattan to protest U.S. drones for warfare & surveillance. We have 3…
Child Killed in Drone Strike Weeks After Obama Pledges End to Civilian Casualties
by Cora Currier | July 1, 2013 “They may not have realized who was in the car. Or they may have realized it and decided collateral damage was okay.” On June 9,…