Audio: David Hartsough and David Swanson on KPFK's World Focus With Blase Bonpane
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Peace and War
Debating a Drone
Daddy Warbucks: May I have the first word?
Brother Pax: If I may have the last one.
DW: I’m sure you will, and you had the first one too. Before the drones came on the scene, you called them forth. You said “War costs too much money.” You said “War kills too many soldiers.” Well, here you go. War costs less money. And war kills nobody. And yet you aren’t satisfied.
BP: Now, this will be a very short debate if my position is to protest the murdering of people with
DRONES: The movie that became reality is now a movie, and you should see it
Saw this movie last night and highly recommend it. You’ll learn more about U.S. foreign policy than you could gather from a mile-high stack of the New York Times, and you’ll imagine you’re just being entertained. Pick up some popcorn and pull up a chair:
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All Drone Politics Is Local
What Localities and States Can Do About Drones
Charlottesville, Va., passed a resolution that urged the state of Virginia to adopt a two-year moratorium on drones (which it did), urged both Virginia and the U.S. Congress to prohibit information obtained from the domestic use of drones from being introduced into court, and to preclude the domestic use of drones equipped with “anti-personnel devices, meaning any projectile, chemical, electrical, directed-energy (visible or
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Germany Says No to Weaponized Drones
Germany had planned to buy a fleet of “Euro Hawk” killer drones — perhaps in an effort to bring the European Union up to speed with certain other Nobel Peace laureates.
But something happened on the way to the celestial colosseum.
Of course, Captain Drone Man himself undoubtedly learned the news first, unless the NSA misplaced some of Frau Merkel’s emails under a pile of exchanges among nonviolent activists planning the upcoming drone summit in DC.
What happened was public
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Let's Take Advantage of Suffering Filipinos!
The same week in which a Washington Post columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to aid those suffering in the Philippines — as a backdoor means of getting the U.S. military back into a larger occupation of the Philippines.
While the Philippines’ representative at the climate talks in Warsaw is fasting in protest of international inaction on the destruction of the earth’s climate, and the U.S. negotiator
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Stop Drone Killings
Happy 96th Armistice Day!
At the United Nations this month, Brazil, China, Venezuela and other nations denounced U.S. drone wars as illegal.[1]
Click here to add your voice in support of the rule of law. Or — if you’ve already signed — please forward this to friends.
In the countries where the drones strike, popular and elite opinion condemns the entire program as criminal. This is the view of Pakistan’s courts, Yemen’s National Dialogue, Yemen’s Human Rights
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Drones from the Other Side
Imagine you awake to the sound of a machine noisily buzzing over your house, and another machine nearby in the sky, and another. These machines and others like them have been around for months. They never leave. While you live in the United States, the machines belong to the government of Pakistan. The machines are unmanned drones armed with missiles. Every once in a while they blow up a house or a car or a couple of kids playing soccer or a grandmother walking to
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