Glenn Greenwald> Deliberate media propaganda

Deliberate media propaganda The media now knows that “militant” is a term of official propaganda, yet still use it for America’s drone victims BY GLENN GREENWALD    SATURDAY, JUN 2, 2012   Salon.com (updated below) Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the Obama administration, in order to conceal civilian deaths caused by their drone attacks, “counts all More

Glenn Greenwald> Deliberate media propaganda

Deliberate media propaganda The media now knows that “militant” is a term of official propaganda, yet still use it for America’s drone victims BY GLENN GREENWALD    SATURDAY, JUN 2, 2012   Salon.com (updated below) Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that the Obama administration, in order to conceal civilian deaths caused by their drone attacks, “counts all More

Jess Sundin> NATO, the U.S. and Afghanistan

NATO, the U.S. and Afghanistan by Jess Sundin     This article is the third of a series on NATO by WAMM and Antiwar Committee members, first presented at a forum on NATO on April 7, 2012. The day after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 (known as Operation Enduring Freedom), the Secretary More

Tom Engelhardt> Tomgram: Chase Madar, Accusing WikiLeaks of Murder

Tomgram:  Chase Madar, Accusing WikiLeaks of Murder Tom Engelhardt   January 19, 2012    TomDispatch Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called it “utterly deplorable.”  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “total dismay.”  General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was “deeply disturbed” that the actions in question would “erode the reputation of our joint force.”  More

Tomgram> Nick Turse, Drone Disasters> The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare What 70 Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of Wa

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Drone Disasters Posted by Nick Turse at 9:00pm, January 15, 2012.   Tom Dispatch After almost two months in abeyance and the (possibly temporary) loss of Shamsi Air Base for its air war, the CIA is again cranking up its drone operations in the Pakistani tribal borderlands.  The first two attacks of 2012 were launched within 48 hours More

Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks> Democracy Now

Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks Democracy Now   November 4, 2011  Includes video. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REw7cYLq45Y&w=560&h=315] The Wall Street Journal is reporting the CIA has made a series of secret concessions in its drone campaign after military and diplomatic officials complained large strikes were damaging the fragile More

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