by Scott Willis, published on WAER, March 3, 2022 (Press clippings from a sibling group with much overlap) About a dozen activists from religious, peace, and justice groups marked the occasion of the Christian holy day of Ash Wednesday to promote diplomacy and non-violence between Russia and Ukraine. They also called for the diversion of military spending to address housing, […]
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by Barry Summers, published on Covert Action Magazine, January 21, 2022 Drones, or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), were developed for war. The idea was first conceived in World War I and they were first adopted for surveillance purposes at the end of World War II and in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Then military drones like the Predator became armed […]
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by William Bruno, published on Truthout, January 14, 2022 On January 13, 2017, a family including a husband, wife and three small children scurried from building to building in East Mosul, Iraq. They were seeking refuge as a battle between ISIS (also known as Daesh) and U.S.-backed forces swirled around them. The family was huddled in an abandoned school surrounded […]
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by Jackie Gillis, published on the Binghamton Homepage, December 28, 2021 BINGHAMTON, NY – Organizations from around Upstate New York are working together to call for a congressional investigation into Twenty years of USA killing of Middle East Civilians. Veterans for Peace, Peace Action of Broome, Upstate Drone Action, and more met outside the Federal Building, where Senator Chuck Schumer […]
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by Raymond Nat Turner, published on Black Agenda Report, December 1, 2021 The Drone Ranger gallops into Glasgow “His absence is good company.” —Scottish saying. Overriding The Hague from palatial $15 million hideout The Drone Ranger galloped gangsta style to Glasgow—setting foot in places war criminals Kissinger, W, Schmuck Cheney, Rumsfeld, et. al., avoided like vampires avoiding sunlit crucifixes… […]
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by Larry Gilbert Sr., published AntiWar.com, November, 18, 2021 As a people represented by our government, what gives us the right to go into other countries and indiscriminately assassinate people? Do we think that “American exceptionalism” gives us that right? How would we feel if the roles were reversed? Families around the world are merely trying to live their lives […]
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By Ann Wright and Brian Terrell, published on Ann’s FB Page The great peace and anti-assassin drone activist Brian Terrell is back on the farm in Iowa after three weeks in the Netherlands and Germany. This is a brief report on his trip to bring attention to US nuclear weapons in the Netherlands and assassin drone connections in Germany: In […]
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Press Release from Ban Killer Drones The Pentagon must be called upon by people around the world and by the U.S. Congress to make public all of the communications and logs, including communications with the White House, pertaining to the August 29, 2021 drone attack that killed 10 members of the Ahmadi family in Kabul, including seven children, say representatives […]
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by PCIM, published on The Edge, October 20, 2021 On August 29, after hours of surveillance on what it believed to be a vehicle containing an ISIS bomb, the U.S. military fired a drone strike on civilian driver Zemari Ahmadi in Kabul, Afghanistan. The military stated the strike may have killed three civilians, though reporting by the New York Times […]
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Ban Killer Drones, Upstate Drone Action, October 3, 2021 Just two weeks ago, several online journals published an article by Brian Terrell, a Catholic Worker from Maloy, Iowa, entitled “No, the Longest War in U.S. History is Not Over“. In it, Brian pointed out the significance of October 7, 2001. On this day, in 2001, the United States began a […]
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