Tag: Drones
Purposeless Death in Syria
Aug 9, 2017 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics
Nothing is going to quickly bring peace and prosperity to Syria. But continuing to do what we know makes matters worse has to end.
Read MoreThe Middle East for Dummies
Mar 24, 2017 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
Questioning whether bombing a place can make it less violent and other assumptions underlining US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Read MoreThe Problem With the CIA and Drones
Mar 18, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
Trump and his subordinates are using drone missiles at a faster pace even than Obama did under a program that gives the CIA power to make war.
Read MoreThe United States Is Innocent and Has Never Killed Anyone
Feb 6, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
As Trump pursues policies of “stealing oil” and “killing families” he is adding nothing new to the United States’ record.
Read MoreThe War Horror Has Begun
Jan 25, 2017 | Viewpoints, Middle East, Politics, US
This new war horror show has passed without notice, as though it were somehow just a continuation of acceptable norms.
Read MoreWhy Flag Burning Matters: Drones and Our National Religion
Nov 29, 2016 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Our government is breaking down the rule of law and stripping away our rights in the name of protecting us.
Read MoreMichael Flynn Should Remember Truths He Blurted Out Last Year
Nov 21, 2016 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
Let’s hope Michael Flynn as Trump’s National Security Adviser will remember his proper criticisms of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
Read MoreThe U.S. National Bird Is Now a Drone
Oct 27, 2016 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Reviews, US
The film National Bird about the US’s use of drone warfare presents the kind of raw truth you won’t get from the mainstream news outlets.
Read MoreTo American drones, do African lives matter?
Apr 1, 2016 | News & Analysis, Africa, US
How much longer can Washington’s self-defeating foreign policies endure?
Read MoreThe Killer Drone Lovers Have Their Movie
If the recent spate of anti-drone movies and plays was making you feel warm thoughts about U.S....
Read MoreMurder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
Mar 9, 2016 | US, Viewpoints
The US government has become an unaccountable, lawless, criminal organization and is a danger to the entire world and its own citizens.
Read MoreDo Mass Killings Bother You?
Dec 4, 2015 | US, Viewpoints
Exploiting one tragedy to fuel hatred toward a large segment of the human population of earth is madness.
Read MoreThe Death of Mokhtar Belmokhtar Is Not the Boon Everyone Thinks It Is
Jun 19, 2015 | Africa, News & Analysis
The world will not miss Belmokhtar, but in a perverted irony, the world, and the Saharan region in particular, may have become a more dangerous place.
Read MoreObama Kills Two Birds with One Stone
Apr 29, 2015 | US, Viewpoints
Hints of the dark place he is taking us
Read MoreThe Collapse of the Obama Doctrine: Yemen War as an Opportunity?
Apr 10, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US
To suggest that the Obama Doctrine has been a ‘failure’ in Yemen is an understatement.
Read MoreHow The US Government and US Military Became Murder, Inc.
Mar 31, 2015 | Asia Pacific, Reviews, US, Viewpoints
Andrew Cockburn has written a must-read book. The title is Kill Chain: The Rise Of The High-Tech Assassins.
Read MoreLaw Has Been Murdered
Jan 24, 2015 | US, Viewpoints
There is no rule of law. We are ruled by the government’s agenda.
Read MoreA Tale of Two Girls: Malala and Nabeela
Dec 18, 2014 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints
Nabeela Rahman’s case shows the dismal truth behind extrajudicial killings, torture and drone strikes.
Read MoreWhat the Media Is Not Telling Us about Yemen: The Bloody War that Doesn’t Exist
May 16, 2014 | Africa, News & Analysis, US
There is only one Yemen and one Yemeni story: that of war, western intervention, corruption, division, unemployment, terror, poverty and revolution.
Read MoreDomestic Drones: Plugging the Last Remaining Loophole In a World of Mass Surveillance
Feb 7, 2014 | News & Analysis, US
The contemporary proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) by the USÂ and UK law enforcement agencies has been an inevitable reality for quite some time. After all, postulations regarding the increasingly powerful...
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