Rebecca Gordon: Keep Your LAWS Off My Planet
New technology under development by Raytheon BBN Technologies could unleash swarms of small, autonomous air and ground vehicles, working in tandem and under the control of remote operators.
Julia Conley: The Kill List
The consequences of this action are too severe and the right to due process too foundational to a constitutional democracy, to allow the government to secretly condemn an American citizen to death.
Philip F. Clark: The Drone
The vindictive screech seeps from televisions, millions of them like bright eyes in a dark wood. A child works on an old computer, struggling with his common core. A mother … Continue reading
Michael Simms: The Garden and the Drone
We come to the garden because it is beautiful. Arborvitae, hydrangea, anemone— Even the names are beautiful. . The men who call themselves our leaders Seem far away. We feel … Continue reading
Appellate Court Judge Janice Rogers Brown: Democracy Is Broken and Congressional Oversight is a Joke
A senior judge has today described American democracy as “broken” and Congressional oversight a “joke” in failing to check the US drone killing program. In a concurring opinion in the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: We All Are Islamic State
Revenge is the psychological engine of war. Victims are the blood currency. Their corpses are used to sanctify acts of indiscriminant murder. Those defined as the enemy and targeted for … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Terminator Planet
How the U.S. Created Middle East Mayhem To this day, it remains difficult to take in the degree to which the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq destabilized the Greater … Continue reading
Malala Yousafzai: Drones Fuel Terrorism
Missing Malala’s message of peace: ‘US Drones fuel terrorism.’ On October 10, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai–who received worldwide attention after being attacked by the Taliban for her advocacy for … Continue reading
Vox Populi 
Marc Jampole: Drones dehumanize the enemy and make it easier to go to war
It’s so easy to kill an animated figure on a screen in a video game. And then another, and then another, each of them so realistic in their detail that … Continue reading →