It has been widely reported but rarely acknowledged in Washington that three US citizens — Samir Khan, Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son — were executed in a September 2011 strike in Yemen. With Holder’s latest admission, however, a fourth American — Jude Mohammed—has also been named a casualty of America’s continuing drone war. … Read More
CrossTalk on Pakistan: Drone Country
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Occupy No Longer in Headlines But Activism Continues Nationwide
David Swanson: Activists succeeding in turning public opinion against drone strikes; other forms of actions on the rise … Read More
Drones Take Off in Silicon Valley
Even before American skies are open to commercially operated drones, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $10.7 million in a financing round led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. … Read More
Mass murder vs. terrorism
For critics of American foreign policy, it’s all but axiomatic that the designation of a violent act as “terrorism” says as much about the accuser as it does about the accused. The U.S. government itself can’t decide on a single working definition of the term, but a standard one denotes unlawful politically-motivated violence designed to intimidate a government or civilian population. Put pressure on any part of this definition and it starts to buckle.“Unlawful”? Why can’t terrorists — as per the word’s original meaning — be state actors? “Civilian population”? The category becomes meaningless if individuals can be retroactively subtracted from it for the crime of being struck by an American drone.Continue Reading… … Read More
Glenn Greenwald tells Moyers: Not much difference between Boston bombings and U.S. drone strikes
In an interview with Bill Moyers, journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized Americans’ “warped perspective” on the U.S. government’s use of unmanned attack ddrones, saying there’s not much differenciating an American military drone strike from the Boston Marathon bombings….
Hezbollah: Drone’s not ours
BEIRUT (AP) — The militant Lebanese Hezbollah group has denied sending a drone that was shot down by Israel.The group’s Al Manar TV made the announcement Thursday through a one line statement flashed as an urgent news bar on its screen.An Israeli warplane shot down a drone approaching the country coast from Lebanon, smashing its wreckage into the sea off the northern city of Haifa Thursday.Suspicion immediately fell on Hezbollah, which sent a similar drone in October and vowed to send more.Continue Reading… … Read More
