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Latest Flying Death Machine: The ‘Switchblade’ Kamikaze Drone
Disclosure of the Switchblade’s use in Afghanistan highlights the Pentagon’s expanding range of missions for remotely piloted aircraft
Protestors Occupy Homage to Military Drones
Worship of push-button murder machines inspires protest by Occupy DC
Robo-Death: Made in the USA
The US government is reportedly working to develop pilotless military drones that are fully automatic, identifying and destroying human targets on the ground without any intervention from an operator or pilot
Mechanized Imperialism
reaper_afgan The drone wars – (also see this Vancouver Sun Article -B) by Justin Raimondo, September 23, 2011 The Obama administration has found a good way to avoid both the domestic political and international fallout that comes of waging constant warfare: let machines do thedirty work. Of course, the Obamaites don’t get the full credit for the discovery – [...]
“Didn’t they see TERMINATOR?” – Military Drone Operations Expand
By HANNAH ROBERTS The Obama administration is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda franchises in Somalia and Yemen. One base for the unmanned aircraft is being established in Ethiopia and another has been installed in the [...]
Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us
AP / Emilio Morenatti
By David Sirota
Imagine, if you can, an alternate universe.
Imagine that in this alternate universe, a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using onboard missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors.
Now imagine that when you read the newspaper about this ongoing bloodbath, you learn that the foreign nation’s top general is nonchalantly telling reporters that his troops are also killing “an amazing number” of your cultural brethren in an adjacent country. Imagine further learning that this foreign power is expanding the drone attacks on your community despite the attacks’ well-known record of killing innocents. And finally, imagine that when you turn on your television, you see the perpetrator nation’s tuxedo-clad leader cracking stand-up comedy jokes about drone strikes—jokes that prompt guffaws from an audience of that nation’s elite.
Ask yourself: How would you and your fellow citizens respond? Would you call homegrown militias mounting a defense “patriots” or would you call them “terrorists”? Would you agree with your leaders when they angrily tell reporters that violent defiance should be expected?
Fortunately, most Americans don’t have to worry about these queries in their own lives. But how we answer them in a hypothetical thought experiment provides us insight into how Pakistanis are likely to be feeling right now. Why? Because thanks to our continued drone assaults on their country, Pakistanis now confront these issues every day. And if they answer these questions as many of us undoubtedly would in a similar situation—well, that should trouble every American in this age of asymmetrical warfare.
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