Review: We Kill Because We Can – From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age

Laurie Calhoun Cultural-Ethical-Legal-Practical Indictment of US Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016 This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars (Terrorism and Global Justice) and Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications. I was limited …

Owl: Micro Drones for Assassination – A New Equalizer Between 1% and 99%?

The New Equalizer – A Genuine Game Changer: Kamikaze Assassination Micro Drones The revolver was the great equalizer of the 19th and 20th centuries between individuals unequal in power or size, and perhaps, in the light of John Robb’s writings, guns of various kinds have been a great equalizer between guerilla fighters and much larger …

Steven Aftergood: Congress to Public: Butt Out — We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Intelligence Oversight or Public Accountability — ESPECIALLY on Drones and Assassinations

Intelligence Oversight Steps Back from Public Accountability The move by Congress to renew the FISA Amendments Act for five more years without amendments came as a bitter disappointment to civil libertarians who believe that the Act emphasizes government surveillance authority at the expense of constitutional protections.  Amendments that were offered to provide more public information …

Mongoose: The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by Lisa Pease

The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s Is the Story of Our Times A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by Lisa Pease Edward Curtin in Unz Review The assassination of the top four leaders of the political left in the five year period – …

Review: Sudden Justice – America’s Secret Drone Wars

Chris Woods Excellent Historical Overview of the US Government’s Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016 This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications and We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in …

Review: Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict – Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications

David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst, Kristen Wall (eds.) Academic-Legal Perspective on the US Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016 This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars (Terrorism and Global Justice) and We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination …