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Pentagon Admits It ‘Kinda Sorta’ Deployed Spy Drones Over America
Pentagon Admits It ‘Kinda Sorta’ Deployed Spy Drones Over America In what will likely not surprise too many, The Pentagon has admitted it has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade. Confirming yet another conspiracy theory is conspiracy fact, FBI director Robert Mueller testified before Congress that the bureau […]
Jailing an Anti-Drone Protester
Jailing an Anti-Drone Protester As the U.S. government fights its endless wars around the globe, some Americans are moving beyond despair and confusion to challenge the military machine, people like Mary Anne Grady Flores, who was sentenced to six months in jail for photographing an anti-drone protest, writes Bill Moyers. Mary Anne Grady Flores is in […]
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’
Drone terror: Welcome to the barbarism of ‘civilisation’ Mass murder is fine as long we are the ones doing the killing to stop other people killing us Terrorists like to believe they are committing mass murder for a noble political cause. Islamic State (IS) acolytes believe they are fighting against the evil “Crusader” states of […]
Arming Dictators: An American Tradition
Arming Dictators: An American Tradition Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations. Recall, the robust figures for US military assistance to Pakistan: more than $20 billion in weapons, training, and other activities between […]
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’
Why NYT Dissed the ‘Drone Papers’ When the “Downing Street Memo” surfaced in the UK in 2006 revealing that the intelligence to justify the Iraq War had been “fixed” around the policy, the mainstream U.S. media largely ignored it. The same has now happened with the leak of documents about President Obama’s drone war, writes John […]
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death LAST WEEK The Intercept published a package of stories on the U.S. drone program, drawing on a cache of secret government documents leaked by an intelligence community whistleblower. The available evidence suggests that one of the documents, a study titled “ISR Support to Small Footprint CT Operations — Somalia/Yemen,” was produced for the […]
The Drone Papers: The Assassination Complex
The Drone Papers: The Assassination Complex From his first days as commander in chief, the drone has been President Barack Obama’s weapon of choice, used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill the people his administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. There […]
Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification
Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification Are drones coming to a police department near you? Possibly. Next thing you know, they’ll be pepper spraying you from 10,000 feet. From Yahoo News: Los Angeles (AFP) – Drones are increasingly making their mark in the arsenal of US police forces, operating in […]
After Summer of Drone Dramas, BC Calls for Crackdown
After Summer of Drone Dramas, BC Calls for Crackdown Province tells feds all UAVs should be registered and pilots certified. The British Columbia government wants all drones to be registered and pilots certified, according to a submission to a federal panel looking at the expanding technology. Whether it’s reports of near-misses with airplanes or spying […]
First State Approves Drones with Rubber Bullets, Tasers, Pepper Spray, Tear Gas, Sound Cannons for Domestic Use
First State Approves Drones with Rubber Bullets, Tasers, Pepper Spray, Tear Gas, Sound Cannons for Domestic Use North Dakota has become the first state to approve government use of drones equipped with “less than lethal weapons”, including “rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers”. The bill passsed largely due to the inherent corruption of the US […]
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy
Pentagon Plans to Boost Drone Flights 50% as Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it’s that defense contractors and […]
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware
Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiuary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware There are lots of ways that government spies can attack your computer, but a U.S. drone company is scheming to offer them one more. Boeing subsidiary Insitu would like to be able to deliver spyware via drone. The plan is described in internal emails from the Italian company Hacking Team, which makes off-the-shelf […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
Veterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly
Veterans Urge Drone Operators to Refuse Orders to Fly Letter Reinforces Call Made in National TV Ad Campaign An increasing number of United States military veterans are counseling United States military drone operators to refuse to fly drone surveillance/attack missions – the veterans are even helping sponsor prime time television commercials urging drone operators to […]
Six Facts From ‘Sudden Justice’, a New History of the Drone War
Six Facts From ‘Sudden Justice’, a New History of the Drone War Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign. Woods […]
