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Congress Wants to See Obama’s “License to Kill”
Congress is finally standing up to President Barack Obama on targeted killing. Almost a year after three American citizens were killed in US drone strikes, legislators are pushing the administration to explain why it
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Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American Citizen
A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen. A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart,
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The Pentagon wants awards for bravery for drone pilots who kill people remotely far from the field of battle
The effort to depict drone warfare as some sort of courageous and noble act is intensifying: The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far
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Jimmy Carter Accuses U.S. of ‘Widespread Abuse of Human Rights’
A former U.S. president is accusing the current president of sanctioning the “widespread abuse of human rights” by authorizing drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists. Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th president, denounced the Obama administration for
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Researchers: Drones To Unleash Bio-War on Americans
Activists like Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones have been warning about false flag operations and the rising American police state for years. Although some in the mainstream considered them on the fringe, many of
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U.S. Military Wants More Drones In Latin America
The U.S. Military is looking to relocate some of their predator drones, sending some to South and Central America, according to a new article in Wired Magazine. As US forces come home from Afghanistan, the
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Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil
We like to think of the drone war as something far away, fought in the deserts of Yemen or the mountains of Afghanistan. But we now know it’s closer than we thought. There are
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Border agency overextended on drone program
The Homeland Security Department ordered so many drones it can’t keep them all flying and doesn’t have a good plan for how to use them, according to a new audit the department’s inspector general
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War in the White House: attorney general Eric Holder and top Obama adviser David Axelrod ‘had to be separated’
Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice
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Barack Obama: Drone Warrior
A very strange story, that 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses
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Americans beg Obama: Please, don’t kill us with drones
Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an
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Terminator Planet: A Drone-Eat-Drone World
U.S. military documents tell the story vividly. In the Gulf of Guinea, off the coast of West Africa, an unmanned mini-submarine deployed from the USS Freedom detects an “anomaly”: another small remotely-operated sub
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What’s NATO Ever Done?
Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of
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Pentagon Issues Drone War Talking Points
It’s official: the U.S. drone war over Pakistan, Yemen and beyond really does exist. John Brennan, President Obama’s principal counterterrorism adviser, disclosed the government’s worst kept secret in a Washington speech last week. So
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Iran ‘building copy of captured US drone’ RQ-170 Sentinel
Iran has begun building a copy of the US surveillance drone it captured last year, after breaking its encryption codes, Iranian officials say. "The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated the
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Russia, China seek info on US drone held by Iran
Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency says Russia and China have asked Tehran to provide them with information on a U.S. drone captured by the Islamic Republic in December. The Thursday report quotes Ahmad Karimpour, an
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New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable?
The Navy is testing an autonomous plane that will land on an aircraft carrier. The prospect of heavily armed aircraft screaming through the skies without direct human control is unnerving to many
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