Tag Archives: U.S. drone strikes

US Wants To Increase Global Lethal And Surveillance Drone Flights To 30,000 By 2019

August 22, 2015 · by · in Government/Politics, Ground All Drones, Militarism, Military Madness · Leave a comment

Bernish: Ironically, this news comes on the heels of a report that — because of what amounts to sibling rivalry — around $500 million has been wasted in attempts to bring the Air Force and Army into a combined drone purchasing program of the same Predator drones whose flights are now to be increased.

The U.S. Media and the 13-Year-Old Yemeni Boy Burned to Death Last Month by a U.S. Drone

February 21, 2015 · by · in corporate media empire, Ground All Drones, Media, Media Criticism, Militarism · Leave a comment

Greenwald: I have no idea whether this 13-year-old boy was “a member of al-Qaeda,” whatever that might mean for a boy that young. But neither does the New York Times, which is why it’s incredibly irresponsible for media outlets reflexively to claim that those killed by U.S. drone strikes are terrorists.

David Swanson: So That’s Why They Kept the Drone Kill Memo Secret

June 24, 2014 · by · in Government/Politics, Ground All Drones, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy · 1 Comment

Now that the U.S. government has released parts of its We-Can-Kill-People-With-Drones memo, it’s hard to miss why it was kept secret until now.  By davidswanson  WarIsACrime.org  23 June 2014 Liberal professors and human rights groups and the United Nations were claiming an inability to know whether drone murders were legal or not because they hadn’t seen the […]