Civilians are the innocent victims of U.S. use of an unproven product ― drones. In a moving testimony at the Guardian, Heather Linebaugh, a former drone analyst for the United States, writes: […]
Beta testing dones on unwitting subjects
Mark Udall: working hard to fly a drone up the ass of every American
We’ve had some issues through the years with Colorado’s BiParticrat Senator, Mark Udall. He’s worked hard to cultivate a reputation as a guy who’s looking after our civil liberties, and his chief […]
Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces
Iraq’s War for Terrorists Sets up Branch Campus in Syria Of especially grave concern is the movement into Syria of bomb makers and military tacticians. As Iraq’s jihad was for much of […]
Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces
Not Just a Wife, But a Slave; Not Just a Slave, But an Advertisement Because Naghma, whose name means melody, was not chosen by the groom, she will most likely be treated […]
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (4/1)
War: Not Just Hell, But the Tenth Circle Thereof War is obscene. I mean that in every sense of the word. Some veterans will tell you that you can’t know war if […]
These aren’t the drones you’re looking for: The U.S. shift to droid warfare and surveillance
by Kevin Rogers In George Lucas’s Star Wars universe, droids are robots with tasks including translation, computing and repair work. The series’ most famous droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, take on these benign […]
Drones on their own at home and abroad
Drones are becoming simultaneously more fantastic and more ordinary at the same time. At the Atlantic, Brian Fung writes: Nothing is inevitable, but over the next few decades, it’ll be very hard […]
Admin using bad info for drone strikes like it did for detainees
Just like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military act on bad intel when designating targets for drone attacks. As when the United States greased the skids for […]
Attacks on first responders transform criminality of drone strikes to sadism
The term “double tapping” fails to do justice to a military tactic that’s arguably sociopathic. Remember the “dead bastards” — as in “look at those” — video, which was the first of […]
Drones obliterate shades of gray between militants and civilians
Killing someone because they looked like they were “up to no good” doesn’t really pass legal muster. Under the Obama administration, the CIA drone program uses what they call signature strikes, as […]
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