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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAssassination as Policy in Washington and How It Failed: 1990-2015: The Kingpin Strategy Cockburn, Andrew Article 2015 The "kingpin strategy" refers to the elimination of the kingpins dominating cartels. Cockburn analyzes how this method was used by the U.S. government, how it failed to work in the "drug war," and how... The Assassination Complex: Secret military documents expose the inner workings of Obama's drone wars Scahill, Jeremy Article 2015 There has been intense focus on the technology of remote killing, but that often serves as a surrogate for what should be a broader examination of the state's power over life and death. The CIA and the Drones: How the Agency Became "One Hell of a Killing Machine" Porter, Gareth Article 2011 The Cowards' Wars Bohne, Luciana Article 2016 The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections. Drone Schei, Tonje Hessen Film/Video 2014 This documentary covers diverse and integral ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions and the re-definition of "going to war", to the moral stance of engineers behind the tech... The Drone Papers Article 2015 The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistl... Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence Van Dongen,Teun Article 2015 Van Dongen discusses the terminology that the drone campaign employs, in which the CIA and the Obama administration gloss over death and destruction of drones in Pakistan, Afganistan and Yemen. Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control Benjamin, Medea Book 2012 A comprehensive look at the growing menace of drone warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who are "piloting" these unmanned planes, who are the... Evil Takes the High Road: Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag ALBERTS, Rev. Williams Article 2013 No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.” Find, Fix, Finish: For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA Scahill, Jeremy Article 2015 Obama was urged by Michael Hayden, the CIA director, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to adopt small footprint counterterrorism operations and drone strikes. In one briefing, Hayden tol... Firing Blind: Flawed Intelligence and the Limits of Drone Technology Currier, Cora; Maass, Peter Article 2015 Classified Pentagon documents reveal that the U.S. military has faced "critical shortfalls" in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. Gaza: Life and death under Israel's drones Cook, Jonathan Article 2013 There are many things to fear in Gaza. Drones are increasingly being used for surveillance and extra-judicial execution in parts of the Middle East, especially by the US. There are no statistics that... Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones Conger, Kate; Cameron, Dell Article 2018 Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a move that set off a firestorm among employees of the... Journalists allege threat of drone execution by US Parvaz, D Article 2017 Fearing assassination, Al Jazeera's Ahmad Zaidan and independent journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem file US legal complaint. The Kill Chain: The lethal bureaucracy behind Obama's drone war Currier, Cora Article 2015 Secret military documents offer documentary evidence of the process by which the Obama administration creates and acts on its kill lists in Yemen and Somalia. Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins Cockburn, Andrew Book 2015 History of drone warfare, a development in military technology that has its origins in long-buried secret programmes dating to US military interventions in Vietnam and Yugoslavia. Cockburn follows the... The Life and Death of Objective Peckham: Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone Gallagher, Peter Article 2015 Documentation of the final years of Bilal el-Berjawi's life, a British-Lebanese citizen suspected of being a terrorist. The story raises questions about the British government's role in the targeted a... Manhunting in the Hindu Kush: Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war Devereaux, Ryan Article 2015 U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the futu... Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses: Drone strikes in Pakistan Ross, Alice K; Serle, Jack Article 2014 Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals. The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads: Hymns to the Silence Floyd, Chris Article 2012 It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides ... Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. Greenwald, Glenn Article 2017 The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015: Workers' Health and Safety Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the mur... Outsourcing the Kill Chain: Eleven Drone Contractors Revealed Chatterjee, Pratap Article 2015 Reporters have named eleven companies that have won millions of dollars in contracts to plug a shortage in personnel needed to analyze the thousands of hours of streaming video gathered daily from the... Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands Swanson, David Article 2012 Killing individuals (and whoever is near them) has become the primary substitute in U.S. public policy for capture/imprisonment/torture. Torturing someone to death is not what former CIA General Coun... Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War Currier, Cora Article 2015 Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolve... Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower McCarthy, Tom Article 2015 American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part repo... Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars Woods, Chris Book 2015 Traces the growing use of armed drones. Woods examines the multiple legal and ethical issues that surround the drone wars. Target Africa: The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula Turse, Nick Article 2015 The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the co... US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended target Article 2014 US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found. A Visual Glossary: Decoding the language of covert warfare Begley, Josh Article 2015 Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare. War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification Halper, Jeff Book 2015 Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and... The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a Nation: A Double Standard of Justice McNamara, Tom Article 2012 It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby v... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesCorporate Watch Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis an... Sources LibraryKiller Bunny in the Sky A drone war begins between vegans and hunters Kirk, Jay 2016 A look at how animal rights activists are using drones to the detriment of hunters. The Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar Drone Boondoggle Weignberge, Sharon 2015 Rivalry between the Army and Air Force over Predator drones may have cost the Pentagon over $500 million in wasteful spending, according to a report released under the Freedom of Information Act. US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground Trégan, François-Xavier 2013 Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground. |
