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Would you microchip your children?
Two dads who created an app that allows parents to issue an alert if their child is lost, say they are looking into creating microchips for children
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Aiming for Two Militant Leaders in Pakistan, U.S. Drone Pilots Killed 233 People, including 89 Children
The U.S. drone program in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen is referred to as “targeted killing” of those deemed to be a danger to American interests. President Barack Obama even said in a speech on
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US rejects Israeli PM’s UN speech about Iran
The US has rejected the recent comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu about Iran during his UN speech in New York. In his speech at the 69th annual session of the UN
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More than drones over Iran
Illegal Israeli drone operations over Iran are part of a regional destabilization, coordinated through Israel, Georgia and Turkey, an “Axis” that not only has put dangerous intelligence operations illegally on Iran’s northern border but
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Iran warns against violation of territorial integrity
Iran has warned of the consequences of a recent provocative act of incursion by an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into its airspace, stressing that the Islamic Republic reserves every right to take whatever
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Iran releases pictures of downed Israeli ‘Hermes’ drone
The Israeli spy drone shot down by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is an Israeli-made Hermes drone, says an Iranian commander. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can operate within a radius of 800 kilometers
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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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US drone intercepted in Crimean airspace – Russia’s state corporation
An American scout-attack drone was intercepted in the Crimean sky, the Rostec state corporation reports. "Judging by side marking, the MQ-5B drone was part of the 66th US brigade of military intelligence with the
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Iran unveils ‘biggest’ attack drone with ‘2,000 kilometer range’
Iran on Monday revealed a new missile-equipped drone which it is calling its biggest one yet. The unmanned aerial vehicle has a range of some 2,000 kilometers and is capable of launching air-to-surface missile
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Iran gives indigenous ScanEagle drone to Russia
A senior Iranian commander says Iran gave Russia one of its indigenous ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicles as a sign of friendship and cooperation between the two countries. Commander of the Aerospace Division of the Islamic
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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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Robobee – Robotic Pollinators to Replace Dying Bees
No, this is not a tabloid - it's real. In addition to the recent suggestion that we should "plant more flowers" to aid the declining bee population... Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is working
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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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China’s Drone Swarms Rise to Challenge US Power
China is building one of the world's largest drone fleets aimed at expanding its military reach in the Pacific and swarming U.S. Navy carriers in the unlikely event of a war, according to a
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DHS drones equipped to eavesdrop on Americans
The US Department of Homeland Security already has an arsenal of drones to be deployed for whatever the agency deems fit, but the actual capabilities of those vehicles exceed what many Americans may expect. The
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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking
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The Rapidly Emerging Drone Technology Industry: Dream Technology or Orwellian Nightmare?
Regardless of the controversy that surrounds drone warfare use by the U.S. abroad, technology in the field of drones, also called Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV‘s) or Micro Air Vehicles (MAV‘s), is growing at a
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Flying high: Iran seizes ‘another foreign’ spy drone
Iran said they took out a 'foreign enemy' drone during a military exercise being conducted by Revolutionary Guard forces. A Guard spokesman later clarified that the drone in question was in fact a part
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