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 […]
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 […]
Jeremy Scahill: Corporations Are Making a Killing Off US Targeted Killing
Jeremy Scahill authored this recent book: , already covered in my blog here: The Assassination Complex. an excerpt from this most recent interview with the author: Laura Flanders: Let’s start with the meat of the matter, the book. It is based on a mountain of classified documents that you and your colleagues went through. Briefly, […]
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 […]