by Andrea Germanos, published on Common Dreams, January 21, 2022 A series of Saudi-led airstrikes were blamed Friday for killing scores of people in Yemen as civilians, including children, continue to suffer deadly consequences of the U.S.-backed conflict that has lasted for years. Overnight bombings included one that targeted a prison holding mostly migrants in the northern city of Sa’ada, […]
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by Rebecca Gordon, published on Tom Dispatch, January 9, 2022 Here’s a scenario to consider: a military force has purchased a million cheap, disposable flying drones each the size of a deck of cards, each capable of carrying three grams of explosives — enough to kill a single person or, in a “shaped charge,” pierce a steel wall. They’ve been […]
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by Jesselyn Radack and William Neuheisel, published on Common Dreams, January 4, 2022 The United States continues to play prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner of anyone on the planet. Despite a decade of air carnage, the only person in prison is the man who exposed it. The New York Times’ investigation into the Pentagon’s civilian casualty files is some of […]
Read morefrom TelesurTV, December 30, 2021 Ten years ago, the U.S. military launched airstrikes on Lakani town, killing 63 villagers and injuring scores others. “The bodies of men, women and children were lying in blood and the crying of the injured was heard from every corner of the house,” said 73-year-old Afghan man Din Mohammad. Mohammad is recalling the terrible night […]
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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 Countercurrents Collective, published on Countercurrents, December 20, 2021 Nice quick summary of what is in the report. We should all read it. [jb] The U.S. military drastically undercounted civilian deaths caused by airstrikes in the Middle East since 2014, according to a New York Times investigation published Saturday. The New York Times reviewed a hidden Pentagon archive comprised of the military’s confidential […]
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by Sam Carliner, published on Common Dreams, December 20, 2021 The New York Times recently came through with a display of reporting that should be commended. On December 18, the paper announced its release of hundreds of the Pentagon’s confidential reports of civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in the Middle East. This follows its high profile investigations into the […]
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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 Prakash Nanda, published on Eurasia Times, November 28, 2021 Around this time last year (2020), Azerbaijan had conquered almost the entire Armenian exclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. If the war had attracted global attention, it was mainly because of one feature. And that was the widespread use of armed drones of Turkish production, which decimated and demoralized the unprepared Armenians from […]
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by Jason Melanovski, published on World Socialist Website, November 16, 2021 Despite its obligations under the signed 2015 Minsk Accords peace agreement, the Ukrainian government is continuing to ramp up its military capabilities against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. In late October, it deployed Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 drones there for the first time ever. In response to an ostensible shelling […]
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