Of Lethal Drones and Police Shootings
Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00 By Kathy Kelly, Consortium News | Op-Ed photo above: Demonstrators record a crowd of police officers on hand in New York’s Times Square, where a large crowd protested after fatal police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota on July 7, 2016. (Christopher Lee / The New York Times) WN: Police brutality […]
US Army Chaplain Resigns in Opposition to Use of Assassin Drones by the United States
If only hundreds more U.S. army chaplains would do this! an excerpt: [US Army Reserve Chaplain Captain Christopher John] Antal wrote, “We have sanitized killing and condoned extrajudicial assassinations … war made easy without due process, protecting ourselves from the human cost of war. We have deceived ourselves … denying the colossal misery our wars […]
Reflections on “Drone Strikes and Torture Will Cause Big Blowback”
November 5, 2021 by Brian Cloughley photo above: AK Rockefeller – CC BY 2.0 WN: It is ominous to read at the end of the highlighted article: Although the long-term consequences are measureless, there is no doubt that “explosive events” will blow back for a long time to come. The military-industrial complex has been manufacturing […]
Engelhardt, A Hellfire World
By Tom Engelhardt photo above: ‘THEY ARE ALL DEAD’: Harrowing leaked footage shows US drone strikes in Afghanistan as pilot admits killing two civilians & child by mistake; Imogen Braddick WN: What can one say? God damn the monstrous capacity of the West (of course elsewhere too!) to cold-bloodedly commit mass murder via drone strike […]
Why Canada’s special forces ‘shadow army’ is still fighting ISIS
By Adnan R. Khan May 11, 2021 photo above: Spec Ops Magazine WN: In short, Canada’s Special Operations Regiment (CSOR), are a bunch of trained hitmen. There is no declared war Canada is in1. Testimonials are ubiquitous that intelligence gathered by CSOR and others by its very nature is often faulty, frequently manipulated, at best […]
Alfred McCoy, How Washington Lost the Ultimate Drug War
May 6, 2021 By Alfred McCoy photo above: Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report | Common Dreams News WN: The folly and futility of American Empire Wars know no bounds. This applies to Canada too and the West in general–all bundled together by greed, fear, will to domination, xenophobia, and arrogant incompetence. Democracy?–not […]
Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed
By Charlie Savage May 1, 2021 photo above: Targeted killings away from conventional war zones have been a central feature of the sprawling war on terrorism, raising legal and policy questions that remain in flux. Credit… Janis Laizans/Reuters WN: Of course the use of drones–as any aerial bombing–invariably murders civilians–often vast numbers. Two classic studies […]
Technology of Death:
March 26, 2020 by Ramzy Baroud photo above: Sgt. Paul L. Anstine III, U.S. Marine Corps – Public Domain WN: Israel is a brutal Empire, only less so than the U.S in one respect: scale. excerpts: The Middle East region, battered by wars and adjoining humanitarian crises that have left millions of people stateless, hungry […]
Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs
Trump Has Pushed Ahead With Drone Strikes, Putting US Citizens in the Crosshairs by Adam Hudson, Truthout Published December 5, 2020 WN: This excerpt from the article highlighted is devastatingly the case, one that gives the lie to the strictly compartmentalized/schizophrenic “decency” of Biden: Where does that leave Biden and where does he stand? Biden has […]
Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS
Washington Post Publishes Names and Details of 1,400 Civilians Killed in US-Led Bombings of ISIS By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams (11/19/2020) November 20, 2020 WN: “Collateral damage” has always meant huge numbers of civilians–aged and young, noncombatants of both sexes, etc.–indiscriminately slaughtered during U.S. drone strikes and other bombings the world over. American military […]
An Open Letter To Joe Biden
Dear Mr. Biden. If I might be so bold, I wonder about connecting some dots at this incredible kairos moment of U.S. and world history. I was moved by your empathetic videoed message to the Floyd family during the funeral service in Houston. You have deeply suffered multiple losses as this article sensitively points out: […]
The Collusion Of Church and State
Published on Thursday, October 17, 2019 Common Dreams by Robert C. Koehler Where are the values—religious or otherwise—that can save this recklessly careening, war-addicted, carbon-spewing state from participating both in its own and the whole planet’s destruction? photo above: Considering that Pompeo is widely known as both a war hawk—a proponent of war with Iran—and […]
Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice
Iran’s Capacity to Strike Back Should Even Make a Politically Desperate Trump Think Twice Such a scenario means that the entire region—from the Mediterranean Sea to the Hindu Kush mountains—will be plunged deeper into war. by Vijay Prashad Published on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 photo above: Saudi Arabia continues to insist that the September 14 […]
Under Donald Trump, drone strikes far exceed Obama’s numbers
By S. E. Cupp May 8, 2019 photo above: In this 2013 file photo, an X47-B Navy drone grabs the wire as it lands aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush off the Virginia coast. | AP Photo/Steve Helber WN: This is, I believe, the first article I have highlighted about Trump’s […]
What’s Behind U.S. Troop Withdrawals Announced for Syria and Afghanistan?
By Sara Flounders Global Research, December 27, 2018 WN: What is indisputable is the U.S. remains singularly guided in the Greater Middle East (as everywhere else in the world) by unapologetic imperialist impulse. It is also indisputable that Israel is likewise an imperial power which not only does the bidding of the U.S., but also […]
The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion
Or Buck Rogers in the 21st Century By Alfred W. McCoy [This piece has been adapted and expanded from Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power.] illustration above: Mongol airships fire disintegrator rays to destroy America. (Buck Rodgers, 2429 A.D., 2-9-1929, Roland […]
Courts Must Hold Executive Branch Accountable for Drone Strikes
Thursday, July 13, 2017 By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout | News Analysis WN: Of course all Presidents by definition are mass murderers. Trump is on track to be the worst of them all. an excerpt: Judge Brown Invites Courts to Review the Legality of Drone Strikes In addition to writing the majority opinion, Judge Brown also authored a separate […]
For Abolition: Prisons and Police Are More Than Brutality, They’re State Terror
Saturday, 12 November 2016 00:00 By Frank Castro, The Hampton Institute | News Analysis photo above: Jobs For Felons Hub; Edited: LW / TO This is an incredibly powerful assessment of “state terror” in arguably the most oppressive democracy of recent times: the United States of America. The author’s analysis rings true at every turn: […]
An Open Letter to Michelle Obama, October 13, 2016
WN: A friend reminded me, in response to that below, that none of us in the first world is untainted vis à vis violence. And with that taintedness is a bending at least towards hypocrisy and Pharisaism – which my friend also reminded me about. So with that mea culpa, please read on.: Dear […]
Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation
Marjorie Cohn: President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation – Truthdig Posted on Sep 29, 2016 By Marjorie Cohn President Obama has without fanfare pursued some of the most evil policies of any previous president: • creation of a permawar culture in Washington with consequent thousands into the millions of victims slaughtered in the Greater Middle East […]
The Myth of Trump’s Alternative Worldview
photo above: Supporters attend a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, August 3, 2016. (Reuters / Eric Thayer) His foreign policy isn’t an alternative to US empire. It’s a cruder rendition of it. By John Feffer AUGUST 10, 2016 an excerpt: AN EXCEPTIONAL RULER Let […]
There’s No Business Like the Arms Business
photo above: A mural near the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. (David Holt / CC-BY-2.0) July 26, 2016 Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Arm a “Volatile” Planet Editorial by WN It is a very strange world: Michelle Obama makes a highly impassioned, brilliant speech at the Democratic National Convention – one nearly universally praised, […]
Lawless Drone Killings
By Stephen Lendman Global Research, October 25, 2013 Obama and his advisors are obscene serial killers – with impunity. an excerpt: It bears repeating. Drones are instruments of state terror. Killing is done extrajudicially. America bears most responsibility. Obama’s kill list decides who, where and when. Human lives don’t matter. Nor do rule of law […]
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became “War” Policy in Washington
Posted by Rebecca Gordon at 4:00pm, July 17, 2016. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch Photo above: US Predator drone an excerpt: from the introduction to the piece by Tom Engelhardt: Strangely, amid the spike in racial tensions after the killing of two black men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, and of five white police […]
The Most Important US Air Force Base You’ve Never Heard Of
Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:00By Norman Solomon, The Nation | News Analysis photo above: The US government’s far-flung system for extrajudicial killing uses Ramstein Air Base as a kind of digital switchboard in a process that fogs accountability and often kills bystanders. (Photo: Lucas Wirl / Flickr) an excerpt: Ramstein receives visual images from drones […]
23 Ways You Could be Killed While Being Black
The video features celebrities such as Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, and Rihanna. Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn Jul. 13, 2016 6:50 PM In the week after shootings that left two black men dead, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and other notable celebrities have teamed up to create this powerful video on the everyday interactions that can get black people killed in […]
In Transparent Act, Obama Administration Erases Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes
photo above: President Barack Obama convenes a meeting in the Situation Room to discuss the latest on the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. Photo by the White House on Flickr. Obama and his administration are not only outright liars: they are mass serial killers with impunity. Under either Clinton or Trump, the […]
Democrats’ War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering Long Predate Orlando
Glenn Greenwald June 21 2016, 6:45 a.m. Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert took on Attorney General Eric Holder’s legal justification for killing American citizens abroad suspected of terrorism, particularly Holder’s argument that “due process and judicial process are not one and the same.” “Trial by jury, trial by fire, rock, paper scissors, who cares? Due process […]
Soul to Soul at Honeywell
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Nick Mottern, Truthout | Op-Ed photo above: Chris Antal and Nick Mottern stand outside Honeywell on the day they attended the shareholders meeting. (Photo: Chris Antal) an excerpt: “Broken at the Top,” an April 2016 report by Oxfam America, suggests that the “substantial portion” of Honeywell’s offshore cash between […]
Preparing for the Next Memorial Day
Wednesday, 01 June 2016 00:00 By Medea Benjamin, PINK Tank | Op-Ed an excerpt: The barbarism of targeting “suspects” by remote control from the comfort of an air-conditioned base in the United States, including in countries where we are not at war, should enrage all Americans who cherish the rule of law. As Army Chaplain […]
Drone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often Unsure About Who Will Die
By SCOTT SHANE APRIL 23, 2015 photo above: The rubble of a building that was destroyed in Yemen by a drone strike in 2011 against Qaeda militants, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the only one of eight American drone victims over all who was a target. Credit Khaled Abdullah/Reuters Can one deny the accusation that President Obama […]
Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book
The United States is a world-wide assassin. Plain and simple. They act with impunity as judge, jury, and executioner. They slaughter countless innocent civilians in their assassinations wake. It is morally utterly deplorable, with no end in sight. The book highlighted here is one of the exposés. An excerpt: Major revelations about the US government’s […]