Drone Warfare in the Nuclear Age
A war with China may not be inevitable, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks observed recently, but it’s a genuine possibility and so this country must be prepared to fight and…
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Will the Pentagon’s Techno-Fantasies Pave the Way for War with China?
On August 28th, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks chose the occasion of a three-day conference organized by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the arms industry’s biggest trade group,…
22 Years of Drone Warfare and No End in Sight
Biden's Rules on Drone Warfare Mask Continued Violent Islamophobia “I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are…
Why There Should Be A Treaty Against the Use of Weaponized Drones
Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible. Citizens have successfully pushed through the United Nations General Assembly treaties to…
Surviving the Killing Fields, a Worldwide Challenge
by Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern Awaiting discharge from a hospital in Cairo, Adel Al Manthari, a Yemeni civilian, faces months of physical therapy and mounting medical bills following three…
Home of the “Hellhounds,” Whiteman AFB drone squadron ‘most lethal’ in US
Note: Brian Terrell delivered this talk at the Oct. 1 peace witness sponsored by PeaceWorksKC, at Whiteman AFB, near Knob Noster, MO. Leading up to this protest there was discussion…
Secret U.S. Drone Strikes Massacred Civilians In Syria, Claims Report
A secret U.S. Air Force (USAF) drone strike unit was allowed to operate in Syria for five years even as it broke rules of engagement and civilian casualties mounted, it…
The U.S. Killer Drone Program Stays Afloat on the Back of Lies and Pentagon Propaganda
A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties. On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States…
Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood
What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, of course, about CENTCOM commander General Kenneth F. McKenzie,…
US Drones Still Fly Over the Afghan Horizon
Facing unrelenting criticism over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration is insisting that the United States will maintain a capability to launch airstrikes in Afghanistan, regardless of the legal limitations and…
Shut Down the Drone War
The August 29 U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed ten civilians, including seven children, demonstrates the bankruptcy of the war on terror. Like many other drone strikes, the strike…
Droning Disasters: A US Strike on Kabul
No more profoundly disturbing statement was needed. In the dying days of the official US departure from Kabul, a US drone etched its butcher’s legacy with a strike supposedly intended…
Papers Instead of Human Lives: The Sentencing of Daniel Hale
In May 2019, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, that famous bastion of anti-whistleblowing fervour, unsealed an indictment charging former intelligence analyst Daniel Everett Hale with…
Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady
“We now kill people without ever seeing them. Now you push a button thousands of miles away ... Since it’s all done by remote control, there’s no remorse ... and…
Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison
The whistleblower acted on behalf of the public’s right to know what is being done in its name “Pardon Daniel Hale.” These words hung in the air on a recent…
Biden Acknowledges “Over The Horizon” Air Attacks Planned Against Taliban
“Over-the-horizon” air operations, possibly directed at the Taliban, may rely very heavily on drone assassination and drone targeting for manned aircraft. On July 2, fleeing questions from reporters about U.S. plans…
Robot Weapons Moving From Horror Movies to Real Battles
There has increasing concern in recent times of robot weapons becoming more of a real-life threat, and a very serious one at that. So it was only a matter…
Art Against Drones
At the High Line, a popular tourist attraction in New York City, visitors to the West side of Lower Manhattan ascend above street level to what was once an elevated…
Biden’s Drone Wars
On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the…
Moving on from the War on Terror?
In the first two months of Joe Biden’s presidency, you could feel the country holding its breath. Sheltered in place, hidden behind masks, unsure about whether to trust in a…
A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” Coming to a City Near You?
by Medea Benjamin and Barry Summers "Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we're looking at,…
Lacking Transparency: Israeli Drones And Australian Defence
“Give us the chance to compete, to see our capabilities, to compare, to see the benefit we can bring with our [drone] system.” Shaul Shahar, Israel Aerospace Industries Vice-President, March…
“Me And My Shadow-Drone”
The computer whined a kind of laugh…. “You’re on a biometric leash! We know your thoughts before you strew them haphazardly about.”
Trump Administration Secretly Resumes CIA Drone Assassination Program
The Trump White House has secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to resume drone assassination strikes that in the latter years of the Obama administration had been largely reserved for…
Murder Inc. In the White House; Obama’s Drones For Breakfast Club
Elections come and go but when “The Don”, Barack Obama, meets with his inner circle of Capos every Tuesday morning its breakfast with drones as in the Murder Incorporated assassination…
Droning Julian Assange: The Clinton Formula
“We believe in what we are doing… If you are pushed you push back.” Julian Assange The mutterings have become furious, and it is clear that the Democratic contender for…
Drone Unknowns: “I No Longer Love Blue Skies”
I got involved in the whole drones process because I was representing people in Guantanamo Bay. And when President Obama came into office he says we’re going to close Guantanamo…
The Trojan Drone: An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised As Technological Advance
Think of it as the Trojan Drone, the ultimate techno-weapon of American warfare in these years, a single remotely operated plane sent to take out a single key figure. It's…
Civlian Drones: Are They Intruding Or Serving?
Neil Armstrong once said that ‘science has not yet mastered prophecy, we predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten’. This quote…
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