4 days ago by Peter Hart

A Los Angeles Times editorial ( 2/7/12) begins: When the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism released a report Sunday claiming that U.S. drone strikes have killed dozens of civilian rescuers and mourners in Pakistan, the American media scarcely noticed. It's a good point.The Bureau's rep ...

FAIR Blog - fair.org/blog

6 days ago by William P. Meyers

Armed drones have been used extensively by the United States to target alleged enemy soldiers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and probably other places around the world. Other nations have developed armed drones, so it is just a matter of time before they are deployed. Without a doubt priv ...

Natural Liberation Blog - iiipublishing.blogspot.com

7 days ago by winterbanyan

Noontime News is a snapshot of our RSS feeds from the noon (Eastern time) hour. Republican Indiana Secretary Of State Convicted Of Voter Fraud Though President Ronald Reagan called the right to vote the “crown jewel of American liberties,” many Republicans around the country have begun demanding inc ...

BPI Campus - bpicampus.com

13 days ago by warvictims

Civilian harm should never be ignored, but neither should it be politicized in a way that diverts attention from real recognition for civilian survivors.

CIVIC From the Field - civicfieldreports.wordpress.com

19 days ago by John Glaser

The Pentagon has a practice called “condolence payments.” This is when U.S. commanders pay surviving family members thousands of dollars for every civilian they’ve killed. After a night operation in 2009 killed 15 civilians, U.S. commanders visited the village and handed out $40,000 in cash - $2,500 ...

News From Antiwar.com - news.antiwar.com

21 days ago by peacepundit

It should be is obvious that launching airstikes from drone aircraft controlled from thousands of miles away by operators viewing and assessing ground “targets” from high altitude though video links is a bad idea. Based on grainy video that lags a bit behind the actual action on the ground, operator ...

Peace Pundit - peacepundit.com

23 days ago by Docu Lector admin

In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4′s Dispatches. Channel 4 News has accessed the data in the classified documents via The Bureau of Investigative Jo ...

WatchDocumentary.TV - watchdocumentary.tv

24 days ago by Guest Contributor

By Hugh Iwanicki and Dave Bailey Al Qaeda flag flown above Benghazi courthouse; New authorities fail to curb violence against black people; Rival militias hoard weapons; NEW civil war looms Have you noticed that, unlike Iraq, Libya almost completely disappeared from American news shortly after we le ...

Politics Arizona - politicsarizona.com

24 days ago by warvictims

If “security gains” are to be measured by fewer civilian casualties, then security is deteriorating in Afghanistan.

CIVIC From the Field - civicfieldreports.wordpress.com

27 days ago by Michael Dunn

January 16, 1919 – Semaine Sanglante ("Bloody Week") ended on this date in Buenos Aires. The General Strike was crushed, with as many as 700 dead and 2000 wounded. The militant Argentinean anarchist movement is decimated by the repression which follows & trade union reformists gain control of the wo ...

Modern School - modeducation.blogspot.com