Missing from the Drone Debate: Americans Aren’t the Only Ones Worthy of Human...
As the debate over drone strikes and targeted killings finally breaks into the mainstream, there remains a key aspect of the kill program that has been virtually ignored even by its most ardent...
View ArticleFirst U.S. Drone Strike Since Obama’s Drone Speech Kills Easily Replaceable...
The United States isn’t officially at war with Pakistan. But that hasn’t stopped the U.S. government from bombing whoever they want whenever they see fit. Nor has it stopped the U.S. media from...
View ArticleClassified Documents Show CIA Has No Clue Who It’s Killing In Targeted Drone...
Richard Engel and Robert Windrem of NBC News published a horrifying report today revealing that the CIA doesn’t always know the identities of the people it’s executing in drone strikes. Their findings...
View ArticleUS Drone Strike Killed 10-Year-Old Boy In Yemen
A 10-year-old Yemeni boy named Abdulaziz was killed on June 10, reports McClatchy. And it was the U.S. government that killed him. Perhaps he should have known better than to be the younger brother of...
View ArticleWho’s Terrorizing Who? In Yemen, America Is The Terrorist
(Updated on Sunday, August 11) Nonstop fear mongering by lawmakers and White House officials about the allegedly growing threat of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has pushed Yemen into the...
View ArticleDisturbing Highlights from ‘Confessions of a Drone Warrior’
Journalist Matthew Power wrote a chilling piece for GQ profiling Brandon Bryant, a former drone operator who flew Predator drones for the US Air Force until his conscience couldn’t take it anymore. I...
View ArticleIf You’re A Civilian And You Die In A Drone Strike, It’s Your Fault!
I managed to break into the mainstream for a few minutes yesterday on MSNBC’s Weekend’s With Alex Witt to talk about the drone strike victims who addressed Congress last week, which I wrote about here...
View ArticleYemeni Man To Meet With Congress About Drone Strike That Killed His Relatives
Faisal bin ali Jaber, a Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike, is traveling to the United States this week to tell his story to members of Congress and human rights activists at...
View ArticleYemeni Drone Strike Victim Requests Meeting With Obama During DC Visit
Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a Yemeni engineer whose nephew and brother-in-law were killed in a US drone strike in Yemen last year, has requested a meeting with President Obama during his visit to Washington,...
View ArticleAnti-Drone Protests In Pakistan Force US Military To Halt Cargo Shipments
The US military has suspended all cargo shipments out of Afghanistan due to a non-violent blockade imposed by activists protesting the US drone program in neighboring Pakistan. On Tuesday, Pentagon...
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