The CIA’s global drone assassination campaign has long been a bragging point in Washington, even if it couldn’t officially be discussed directly before, say, Congress.
"Mr. Brennan, will you speak out about the innocents killed by the U.S. in our drone strikes?," asked Benjamin during a speech marking the anniversary of bin Laden's death.
Congress seems more interested in promoting drone proliferation than in oversight. A Washington, D.C., summit seeks to educate the public on the use and abuse of drones.
Attorney General Eric Holder gave a broad defense of the chillingly expansive authority that the United States claims to be able to kill people, including its own citizens.
Drones crossed into a new frontier in military affairs: an area of entirely risk-free, remote and even potentially automated killing detached from human behavioral cues.
Noel Sharkey, Sarah Knuckey, Comment Is Free. December 22, 2011.
In response to constant police surveillance, violence, and arrests, Occupy Wall Street protesters and legal observers have been turning their cameras back on the police.
By arming local police departments with military grade equipment, domestic policing has come to resemble a combat operation with citizens as the enemy.
Nick Turse, AlterNet and TomDispatch. October 16, 2011.
A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of America's shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases dotting the globe.
The U.S. military may be a decade or so away from deploying an army of pilotless drones capable of collaborating and killing without any human guidance.
Pratap Chatterjee, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. February 7, 2010.
As in the 1960s in Cambodia, U.S. air strikes are having a devastating effect in Pakistan, not just on the targeted communities, but on public consciousness throughout the region.
