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Dr. Callamard’s statements come on the heels of a scathing published account by True Pundit detailing that in 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly asked top aides if it was possible to use a drone strike against Assange....
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If you’re an American who has lived under the war on terror, it’s easy to forget how extreme this behavior is. Most countries on the planet don’t routinely run around dropping bombs and killing dozens of people in multiple other countries at once, let alone do so in countries...
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Drone operators refer to children as “fun-size terrorists” and liken killing them to “cutting the grass before it grows too long,” said one of the operators — Intercept...
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What is the value of a human life? The secret payment to my family represents a fraction of the cost of the operation that killed them. This seems to be the Obama administration's cold calculation: Yemeni lives are cheap. They cost the President no political or moral capital....
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CIA Best Practices in Counterinsurgency WikiLeaks, on Thursday 18 December, published a review by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of its “High Value Target” (HVT) assassination programme. The report weighs the pros and cons of killing “insurgent” leaders in assassination plots. After the report was prepared, US drone strike killings rose...
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If Barack Obama is concerned about the legacy of his presidency, he might want to take a look at Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight.” Early in his sobering segment on the U.S. drone program, John Oliver noted that “Drone strikes will be as much a characteristic of the...
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Ka një anë të errët me raporte të stuhishme dhe dëshmi mbi dronat, të dobishme, ndihmuese siç janë në shumë mënyra. Kur ne lexojmë se Amnesty International dhe Human Rights Watch kundërshtojnë gjuajtjet e telekomanduar që shkelin ligjin ndërkombëtar, disa prej nesh mund të jenë të prirur për të interpretuar...
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Captain Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, California recently filmed and edited this 5 minute video taken with a drone. It shows thousands of dolphins, three gray whales migrating off the coast of San Clemente, and a humpback whale snuggling with her calf...