The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
More of the same — never mind that the event is over and CIA has nothing serious to contribute. U.S. Scrambles To Rush Spies, Drones To Libya ArmyTimes.com, September 15, 2012 By Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for …
The Summer 2012 issue of Common Defense Quarterly is running my article, “MQ-9 Reaper: Not the ‘Revolution in Warfare’ You’ve Been Told.” To sum it up, I conclude “The proclamation of drones, such as Reaper, to be the future of warfare, a revolutionary transformation, is an empty, data free proclamation. The MQ-9 neither saves money nor …
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Attached is a really first rate assessment of the real benefits and costs of the American infatuation with drone warfare. The writer, Patrick Cockburn, is one of the very best reporters now covering the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. Chuck Spinney Cap Ferat, France America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda World View: …
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This Version of the Four Horsemen the Apocalypse actually Makes Sense What types of weapons will use self-replication (which in this context means the ability to easily and rapidly make exact copies of themselves on a massive scale without human oversight)? Here’s a really simple taxonomy. Had some fun with this. All of these use …
Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA by Jim Bamford, the world’s top writer on NSA matters, in WIRED Boredom, terror, deadly mistakes: Secrets of the new drone war From boredom to “poorly designed” workstations, documents reveal the pressures faced by remote drone pilots By Jefferson Morley in Salon.
A Final Word on Drones and Reaper (doc 20 pages) A Final Word on Drones and Reaper Last week I distributed a five part series on drones, specifically the MQ-9 Reaper. It was published at Time Magazine’s Battleland blog. This last message on the series distributes each of the five parts and the entire paper as …
In my previous blog post on the use of drones for human rights, I also advocated for the use of drones to support nonviolent civil resistance efforts. Obviously, like the use of any technology in such contexts, doing so presents both new opportunities and obvious dangers. In this blog post, I consider the use of …
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