The Costs of Freedom

By John Laurits / JohnLaurits.com Jan 16, 2018 Americans have been complaining a lot about aid cuts to the nation's needy and the lack of health care. Don't they understand how much it costs to keep using drones to blow up weddings in Yemen? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AUDIO: ‘Juggling Excess and Imbalance in a Time of Drones’: The Unequal Equations of Our Time

Amy Uyematsu / Truthdig Feb 3, 2016 Amy Uyematsu's poem, inspired by Juan Felipe Herrera's “Fuzzy Equations," is a powerful litany of expressions that get to the heart of our modern age. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Hot Spikes Through the Forehead

Mark Fiore / Truthdig Oct 22, 2015 If you blinked, you may have missed "The Drone Papers" report that was just released. Dig deeper

One Day Soon, That Drone Overhead May Be Pointing a Taser at You

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Sep 2, 2015 In a troubling and unprecedented action, North Dakota has legalized police use of drones carrying “less than lethal” weapons. Warrants? None needed. Other states could follow unless laws are written to stop this chilling threat. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

U.S. Finally Admits It Has No Idea Who It Is Assassinating by Drone (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Apr 30, 2015 The tragic deaths last January, just now being revealed, of two Western hostages in drone strikes on a relatively empty housing complex in northern Pakistan underlines that the Obama administration is killing people from the air without knowing who they are and is killing significant numbers of innocent civilians. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Game of Drones

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Drone Strikes

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‘Still Death’: a Hard-Hitting Poem About Predator Drones (Audio)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2015 Jill McDonough's poem drives home the idea that when it comes to the many lives taken in our ongoing drone wars, "On the screen or on the ground, death observed is still death." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Global Drone Trade, by the Numbers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 16, 2015 More drones are being transferred between countries than ever before, says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Raising the Alarm Over Devices That Let Police Snoop Into Our Homes

Thor Benson / Truthdig Feb 23, 2015 With the proliferation of technology allowing law enforcement agencies to observe people through walls, we may be entering an era where the word “transparency” takes on a new meaning.With the proliferation of technology allowing police to observe people through walls, we may be entering an era where the word “transparency” takes on a new meaning. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Border Drones a Wasteful Giveaway, Study Says

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 25, 2013 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." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Puts Drones in Yemen in Overdrive

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 6, 2012 Ten civilians were slain in Yemen over the weekend by the Obama administration’s unmanned drones, weapons that have killed 29 people in a little over a week and nearly 200 this year. But you won’t hear about them or the government’s unofficial war in Yemen at the Democratic National Convention this week. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )