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Trump Administration Fails to Clarify Mystery "Drones" as Promised
• January 31, 2025
• 1,900 Words • 14 Comments • Reply
On Tuesday, during the inaugural press briefing, White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced that the “drones” witnessed by many over the New Jersey skies and other places on the East Coast were just hobbyists and drone enthusiasts flying their drones: “After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large... Read More
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An Incursion of Drones: An Attempt to Make Sense of the Recent Phenomena
• January 2, 2025
• 3,500 Words • 141 Comments • Reply
Since about mid-November of 2024, an incursion of aerial ‘drones’ on the East Coast (primarily in New Jersey and New York) has been spotted by hundreds if not thousands of witnesses. They are seen mostly at night and have been repeatedly observed in the airspace above sensitive military bases and installments, such as the Picatinny... Read More
Drones, Dead Jews, and the Inevitability of Sino-Futurism
• July 22, 2024
• 2,900 Words • 135 Comments • Reply
Houthis are now killing Jews in Tel Aviv. These are very primitive people. I don’t know that the people are primitive, I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, but I mean to say they’ve been getting the shit bombed out of them by Saudi (using US weapons, of course) since 2015, and the country... Read More
Israel's Not So Little War Against Russia
• May 5, 2024
• 1,800 Words • 13 Comments • Reply
Since last November the regime of Vladimir Zelensky (lead image, left) in Kiev has been advertising the products of a company called Piranha-Tech for newly developed electronic warfare (EW) technologies which the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu (right) is now supplying the Ukraine for operations against Russia. According to a Russian military blogger report published... Read More
The Strategic Downside to Drone Attacks
• May 22, 2023
• 1,300 Words • 74 Comments • Reply
In the United States, giving aid and comfort to the enemy is a serious offense, but America’s armed drone program, while it kills a lot of bad guys, also helps generate new recruits to replace them. In early May 2023, the Pentagon announced a drone attack killed a “senior al-Qaeda leader” in Syria. On 18... Read More
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Ukraine War Spills Over Into the Middle East
US and Israel will prevent the sale of Iranian drones to Russia
• January 17, 2023
• 1,800 Words • 232 Comments • Reply
In spite of an overwhelming flood of disinformation coming from the Western mainstream media and governments, there continue to be obviously widely divergent views on the current war between Ukraine and Russia. The official and media supported narrative is that Moscow attacked its neighbor in violation of “rule based” principles of international relations, whereby an... Read More
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Drone-Killing the Fifth Amendment
• July 24, 2014
• 2,600 Words • 7 Comments • Reply
You can't get more serious about protecting the people from their government than the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, specifically in its most critical clause: "No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." In 2011, the White House ordered the drone-killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki without trial.... Read More
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The Three Faces of Drone War
Speaking Truth From the Robotic Heavens
• May 11, 2014
• 2,800 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with drones capable of performing on the battlefield while their “pilots” remain thousands of miles away, two of those faces have, however, faded into the background in recent years. Today, we are left with just the... Read More
The End of Drone War?
The collapse of available bases could push the U.S. to revamp its failed counterterrorism strategy
• March 4, 2014
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The Obama administration is facing complete collapse of its counterterrorism strategy in South Asia as it fails to ratify a new status of forces agreement with Afghanistan. Yet many intelligence insiders consider the failure to be a good thing. The administration erred in constructing its capability to counter the terrorist threat largely around the use... Read More
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Drone Killing the Fifth Amendment
How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Death at a Time
• February 16, 2014
• 2,500 Words • 2 Comments • Reply
Terrorism (ter-ror-ism; see also terror) n. 1. When a foreign organization kills an American for political reasons. Justice (jus-tice) n. 1. When the United States Government uses a drone to kill an American for political reasons. How's that morning coffee treating you? Nice and warming? Mmmm. While you're savoring your cup o' joe, imagine the... Read More
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Perpetual War
How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
• October 29, 2013
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[This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just as he had promised when he began his first campaign for president... Read More
Drones for "Regime Protection"
The CIA's insurance plan for Karzai and Maliki---and what it means for Syria
• May 1, 2013
• 500 Words • 19 Comments • Reply
Media reports of CIA preparations to use drones to target al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Syria, should the post-Assad situation warrant such an intervention, are only party correct. The plan to use drones under certain circumstances is in reality part of the much larger CIA program in Iraq that parallels the program being set up in Afghanistan.... Read More
Drone Doubts at the CIA
A report on the post-Petraeus CIA and jihadist "refugees" in Turkey.
• January 21, 2013
• 400 Words • 8 Comments • Reply
There was considerable pushback at the Central Intelligence Agency following the resignation of David Petraeus. Former military officers are generally disliked at CIA, but Petraeus made all the right moves by arriving at Langley without a staff and with a professed willingness to learn. Then he went ahead and pulled together a team that favored... Read More
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