Please remember that the seriousness and emotion evinced by the drone whistleblowers comes not only from their experiences in the drone program but because they constantly face the threat of government reprisal. Activists protesting armed drones arrested at Creech Air Force Base. Photo: Nevada Desert Experience DRONE ORGANIZERS BULLETIN – April 2016 More
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American Activists to Attempt Anti-Drone March Across Pakistan The trek, if permitted by the US, will bring new attention to – and some say, blow the cover off – the secrets concerning casualties from the drone war. Tom Hayden August 22, 2012 The Peace and Justice Resource Center A sixty-kilometer, Pakistani-led march against US drone More
US Plans for Nuclear Drones ‘On Hold’… For Now ‘Political realities’ hamstring attempt to bring ‘flying nuclear power plants’ to the skies Common Dreams staff Monday, April 2, 2012 Common Dreams American scientists have drawn up plans for a new generation of nuclear-powered drones capable of flying over remote regions of the More
Who Reviews the US ‘Kill List’? By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times via RSN 05 February 12 There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to office. hen it comes to national security, Michael V. Hayden More
A project of The Nation Institute Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door Posted by Tom Engelhardt February 5, 2012 TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Just a reminder for those planning their week: Jeremy Scahill, one of the best investigative journalists in the business, and I will be talking together on stage at New York University’s More
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners BY GLENN GREENWALD SUNDAY, FEB 5, 2012 Salon.com Images from a Predator B unmanned aircraft are seen on a monitored at the Naval Air Station, in November, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Credit: AP) (updated below – Update II – Update III) On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a More
“We’re on a Destabilizing Planet”: Interview with Tom Engelhardt By David A. Walsh 1-16-12 History News Network David A. Walsh is an editor for the History News Network. Tom Engelhardt is the creator and editor of The Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com, former Senior Editor at Pantheon Books, and the author of numerous works on American More
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones Posted by Nick Turse at 9:40am, December 20, 2011. Tom Dispatch It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your drone is? Oh, the confusion of it all! The U.S. military now insists it was deeply befuddled when it claimed that a super-secret advanced RQ-170 Sentinel drone (aka “the beast More
Drones cleared for domestic use across the US Published: 29 November, 2011, 21:47 RT What do you know about drones? You know drones — those robotic, unmanned planes that fire missiles for the American military across Afghanistan, Pakistan and anywhere else the United States needs to get away with murder. Well if you don’t know More
