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NATO orders five new drones worth $1.7bn May 23, 2012 Updated 2 days ago From Web Edition TheNews WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman Corp said on Sunday it had signed a $1.7 billion contract with NATO for a new surveillance and intelligence system that will include five high-altitude unmanned Global Hawk planes and transportable [...]
Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create ‘Assassination List’ President Obama’s counter-terrorism chief has “seized the lead” in secretly determining who will die by US drone – Common Dreams staff Published on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 by Common Dreams US officials with firsthand knowledge of how the government determines who gets put on the CIA and [...]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Oil Wars on the Horizon Posted by Michael Klare at 7:42am, May 10, 2012 Tom Dispatch There has been much discussion recently about the Obama administration’s “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia: the 250 Marines sent to Darwin, Australia, the littoral combat ships for Singapore, the support for Burmese “democracy,” war games in the Philippines (and a drone [...]
America’s drone sickness BY GLENN GREENWALD April 19, 2012 Salon.com This headline and first paragraph from today’s Washington Post scoop by Greg Miller speaks volumes about so many things: General David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 18, 2011 (Credit: REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) There are many evils in the world, but extinguishing people’s lives with targeted, extra-judicial killings, when you [...]
Bring on the Drones By Clifford J. Tasner L.A. Progressive Posted on WAMMToday April 22, 2012 Felonius Ax here reporting from the utterly exclusive world of the Billionaires: We’re hearing a lot of exciting news about what a great job predator drones are doing in expanding even more of our ever-expanding War On Terror. It’s our [...]
On Drones and Democracy By Peter Hart 4/13/2012 FAIR Photo: AFP/Getty Yesterday (4/12/12) Pakistan’s parliament unanimously voted in favor of a resolution that, among other things, calls for an immediate end to CIA drone strikes in their country. The Washington Post‘s account of this news included this curious observation: From Washington’s perspective, the debate in Parliament was [...]
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 [...]
Published on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Common Dreams The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability by Kathy Kelly and Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a [...]
Israel, MEK and state sponsor of Terror groups BY GLENN GREENWALD FRIDAY FEB 10, 2012 salon.com Howard Dean and Rudy Giuliani (Credit: AP) One of the most under-reported political stories of the last year is the devoted advocacy of numerous prominent American political figures on behalf of an Iranian group long formally designated as a Terrorist organization under U.S. [...]
450 Bases and It’s Not Over Yet> The Pentagon’s Afghan Basing Plans for Prisons, Drones, and Black Ops By Nick Turse February 12, 2012 Tom Dispatch In late December, the lot was just a big blank: a few burgundy metal shipping containers sitting in an expanse of crushed eggshell-colored gravel inside a razor-wire-topped fence. The American [...]
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