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‘My husband kills kids with drones’: Michelle Obama’s viral pic fuels anti-drone campaign
When US First Lady Michelle Obama appeared in a picture supporting the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria, she was praised for taking a stand against Boko Haram. But others quickly subverted her message and
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Activist Art Against Drone Killing Redesigns The Landscape in Pakistan
The continuing impact of unmanned drones across the target countries of the U.S. has inspired many short videos that attempt to personalize the death and destruction that has been wrought. One of the most
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Terrorism with a “Human Face”: The History of America’s Death Squads
The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations
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America’s death wish
Again we hear (NYT ed., 4/6) about “the damage wrought by the gun lobby,” as though a cabal of manufacturers and other interested parties was responsible for the diseased mentality centered on gun violence
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Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike
A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured. The civilians were
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US media kept Saudi drone base secret for two years
It only came to light after a blackout on reporting agreed by the media and the Obama administration was broken by two US newspapers. The revelation that the US has been operating a secret drone
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Secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia exposed
The existence of a previously secret US assassination drone base in Saudi Arabia has come to light amid President Barack Obama’s bid to install his counterterrorism adviser and architect of his covert targeted-killing policy,
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What Happens When Drones Return to America
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to call it the Parrot. The
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The Unfortunately Long List of Children In Yemen and Pakistan Who Were Murdered By Drones
Whenever the mainstream media breaks news about a drone strike, they are always careful to say that it was “militants” who were killed, sometimes they even label the victims as members of “Al-Qaeda”. However, reality
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CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes
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Revealed: U.S. carried out 333 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year alone – more than the entire drone strikes in Pakistan over the past eight years COMBINED
The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years
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