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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jun 16, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jun 14, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on May 31, 2013
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Less than 24 hours after the announcement of the death of Pakistani Taliban deputy commander Wali ur-Rehman in a U.S. drone strike in the North Waziristan region Wednesday, the group is said to have chosen a new No. 2.
Posted on May 30, 2013
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The U.N.’s special investigator into human rights will call Thursday for a ban on “killer robots” that could attack targets without human direction, before such devices come into existence.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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AP/Moises Castillo
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A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan has reportedly killed senior Taliban militants, including the group’s second in command. Four people were said to be dead after the attack in the North Waziristan region.
Posted on May 29, 2013
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 29, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 26, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Why the IRS scandal misses the point, drones threaten privacy, and the other people in sports still trapped in the closet.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Why the IRS scandal misses the point, drones threaten privacy, and the other people in sports still trapped in the closet.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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By Bill Blum — The president’s address Thursday left at least three core issues in the war on terror entirely unsettled: when Guantanamo will close, who will oversee future drone attacks and when surveillance of the press will end.
Posted on May 24, 2013
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Steve Sack, Cagle Cartoons, The Minneapolis Star Tribune —
Posted on May 24, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why an Oklahoma senator thinks federal disaster relief to his state after a deadly tornado is unnecessary and John McCain gets all maverick-y again.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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The Obama administration’s unprecedented acknowledgement that four Americans were killed in U.S. drone strikes overseas—including one whose death was not previously reported—“raises more questions than it answers,” Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of the new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” told “Democracy Now!” on Thursday.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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By James Cromwell —
The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, obliterate the balance of power, legitimize a military dictatorship, and control the dissemination of truth in the name of protecting its “secrets.” Soon we will have lost our freedom, not to some foreign nation that hates it, but to our own devices.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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In a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder formally acknowledged that four American citizens had been killed by U.S. drone strikes abroad, including al-Qaida-affiliated cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Posted on May 22, 2013
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Some wealthy families are renting handicapped scooters to skip lines at the famous theme park; the newest way to stalk someone is apparently to use a drone; meanwhile, the SATs were canceled in all of South Korea due to allegations of widespread cheating. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on May 12, 2013
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A veteran Air Force drone pilot has opened up about his unsettling experiences killing alleged militants and probable civilians from an air-conditioned trailer in the American West.
Posted on May 11, 2013
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You’ve heard reports of drones the size of insects. A new video shows a flying robot the size of a quarter developed by engineers at Harvard.
Posted on May 4, 2013
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Abode of Chaos
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The lawyer who authored the White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of using them when it didn’t want to capture prisoners who would otherwise go to Guantanamo Bay.
Posted on May 2, 2013
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With his new book “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield,” Jeremy Scahill brings the last decade of the American government’s clandestine war making into the clearest possible focus.
Posted on Apr 27, 2013
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As Congress considers whether to increase funding for border drones, a report released Wednesday found the technology to be “an inefficient, costly and absurd approach to border security and homeland security.”
Posted on Apr 25, 2013
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants to limit the domestic use of drones by civilians, citing privacy and security concerns.
Posted on Apr 13, 2013
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By Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting —
The U.S. Border Patrol has caught some border crossers in remote stretches of desert with a sophisticated sensor mounted on unmanned spy aircraft that can reveal every man, woman and child under its gaze from a height of about 25,000 feet.
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Shutterstock illustration of a drone.
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By William Pfaff — War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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ITN
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The U.S. Defense Department has developed a laser cannon capable of downing a drone aircraft from the deck of a Navy warship at dirt cheap operating cost.
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch —
Consider the plethora of blood-soaked little anniversaries that Americans could observe, if they cared to, from a decade-plus of the former Global War on Terror.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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By William J. Astore, TomDispatch —
Encouraging politicians to seek seemingly low-cost, Olympian solutions to complex human problems—like Zeus hurling thunderbolts from the sky—has fostered fantasies of illimitable power emboldened by contempt for human life. But the mortals on the receiving end have shown surprising strength in frustrating the designs of the air power gods. The fact requires explanation.
Posted on Mar 26, 2013
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Amazon and other companies have rebranded once taboo sex paraphernalia, thus starting another sexual revolution; public libraries aren’t free, per se, but they’re an absolutely important investment; meanwhile, is the fact that college athletic directors get paid more than $1 million a year justifiable? These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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By Col. Ann Wright — A decade ago, I resigned my post in opposition to President George W. Bush’s war on Iraq.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Reuters editor is indicted on suspicion of aiding hackers and Barack Obama wants Democratic lawmakers to know he’s not Dick Cheney.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Spiritual money launderer Bob Harris gave his salary to the developing world, Hugo Chavez died, and banks were “too big to jail.” Plus: Medea Benjamin on drones, and cybersecurity.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Spiritual money launderer Bob Harris gave his salary to the developing world, Hugo Chavez died, and banks were “too big to jail.” Plus: Medea Benjamin on drones, and cybersecurity.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Sarah Palin announces her next book project and Iran mulls a lawsuit against Hollywood.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Just when our politics seemed destined to freeze into a brain-dead brand of partisanship, party lines started cracking up.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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“Some people do need killing,” the “Real Time” host said on his HBO program Friday. “It’s like what I say about the death penalty: Let’s just kill the right people.”
Posted on Mar 10, 2013
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