Antechinus: Time to Close US Bases in Australia? — Ending Australian Support for US Mass Surveillance and US Drone Assassination

Time to Close U.S. bases in Australia? “I’ve reached the point now where I can no longer stand up and provide the verbal, conceptual justification for the facility that I was able to do in the past. We’re now linked in to this global network where intelligence and operations have become essentially fused and Pine …

Robert Steele: UNHINGED: drone assassination – American suicide

REVIEW ESSAY Unhinged: drone assassination – American suicide Intelligence and National Security, 33/1 March 2017 We kill because we can: from soldiering to assassination in the drone age, by Laurie Calhoun, London, Zed Books, 2016, 400 pp., US$15.95 (paperback), ISBN 978 178360547 7 Drones and the future of armed conflict: ethical, legal, and strategic implications, …

Chuck Spinney: Open Letter to Obama by Drone Operators Denounces Drone Assassination

Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers Four former service members – including three sensor operators – issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has ‘fueled feelings of hatred’ toward US Ed Pilkington in New York and Ewen MacAskill in London Guardian, 18 November 2015 Phi Beta Iota: …

Berto Jongman: CIA’s Secret Torture Sites & the Competing CIA and DoD Drone Assassination Programs

CIA Torture REVEALED: The boom and bust of the CIA’s secret torture sites The quality of debriefers and security officers being sent to the site was degenerating, while the information coming out of it was “mediocre or, I dare say, useless”. The Assassination Complex Eight Papers on the Drone Programs of the USA Taken together, …

SchwartzReport: Drone Assassination Threat Against US Officials

It is the nature of implemented war technologies that they create arms races that always have unintended consequences. The use of drones is the latest example. It is just a matter of time until American officials start being killed by drones, probably beginning when they are out of the country. Technologies of violence feed on …

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan – The Price of Indiscriminate Drone Assassinations — While Failing to Act Elsewhere

Pakistan: The Pakistani Taliban confirmed on Thursday that Wali ur Rehman Mehsud was killed by a US drone attack. Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan told press, “I confirm the martyrdom of Wali ur Rehman Mehsud in a drone strike on Wednesday. We are shocked at the martyrdom of our leader but are proud of his …

Ed Jewett: #GoogleGestapo Twitter Bans Dissent — Deep State Marches On, Zionist Foreign Agent Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as Shock Troops for Digital Assassination — Drone “By Name” Assassination Next?

Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent “… The deep state is working hand in hand with Silicon Valley social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google to control the flow of information. That includes suppressing, censoring and sometimes outright purging dissenting voices…. that one of the world’s most influential social …