$600 Million to Beef Up Border Security

Staff / Truthdig Aug 13, 2010 Who would have thought the comprehensive immigration reform promised by President Obama would include a whopping $600 million for increased security along the U.S.-Mexico border for surveillance technologies and 1,000 more Border Patrol agents? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Shifting War Strategy Smacks of Desperation

William Pfaff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2010 The first decision made by Gen. David Petraeus as commandant of international forces in Afghanistan has been to abandon the policy he himself drafted in order to win the war and rebuild Afghan stability and government. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

U.N. Official: Drone Use May Cause ‘PlayStation Mentality’

Staff / Truthdig Jun 3, 2010 What effects might killing by remote, as American soldiers who control drones from afar are charged with doing, have on operators' mind-sets? One UN official is worried that this US-led trend may give practitioners (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Al-Qaida’s No. 3 Reportedly Killed in Drone Attack

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2010 Sheikh Said al-Masri, the man who held the third position in al-Qaida's chain of command, was killed with members of his family in an American drone strike in Pakistan within the last two weeks, according to reports. Updated Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blowback: Why They Try to Bomb Us

David Sirota / Truthdig May 14, 2010 Imagine an alternate universe in which a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using onboard missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors, and then jokes about it.Imagine a foreign military power begins flying remote-controlled warplanes over your town, using onboard missiles to kill hundreds of your innocent neighbors, and then jokes about it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Colbert Report’: The Wikileaks Squeal-stapo

Staff / Truthdig Apr 13, 2010 After highly upsetting video footage, taken from a U.S. Apache helicopter, showing 12 Iraqi citizens being killed by American gunfire was posted on WikiLeaks, Stephen Colbert wonders how long it'll be before the website's proprietors can be tracked down by Predator drones. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Droning On and On

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CIA, Pakistan Spying in Tandem

Staff / Truthdig Feb 25, 2010 In case you didn't know, there's a "secret war," as The New York Times puts it, going on in Pakistan, and the drone attacks that occasionally make headlines represent just one tactic that the U.S. is employing to target militants. Another involves CIA operatives joining forces with their Pakistani counterparts at the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, the ISI. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Playing Army

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Insurgents Hack Predator Drones With Cheap Software

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 The $4.5 million Predator unmanned aerial vehicle and its at least $10 million successor are considered the future of America's Air Force and a big part of the president's escalation in Afghanistan. Insurgents in Iraq (and probably Afghanistan) were able to track the planes and intercept video feeds using $26 software available on the Internet. (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Our Murderers in the Sky

Scott Ritter / Truthdig Dec 11, 2009 Key to Barack Obama's surge is his expansion of targeted assassinations taking place under the guise of unmanned aerial drones operating in the Af-Pak region. Obama's senseless Afghanistan strategy will expand the use of targeted assassinations by aerial drones. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Over 40 Killed in Yet Another Pakistan Attack

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2009 The death toll after four days of militant attacks in Pakistan rose past 100 following another deadly blast, this time in the Shangla district of the Swat Valley, where a car bomb exploded near a market early Monday afternoon. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )