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UN Expert: Lethal Use of Drones Must Be Curbed
The UN's foremost expert on extrajudicial killing has called for international restrictions on the use of armed drones.
Beyond Drones and Stop-and-Frisk
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.
As Obama Considers Drone Strikes in Iraq, Could US Military Action Worsen Sectarian Conflict?
Many fear Iraq could disintegrate as ISIS takes more cities.
Pakistani High Court Orders Police To investigate CIA Drone Strikes
A judge at the High Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, has ordered the Pakistani police to open a criminal investigation into the CIA's involvement in a drone strike that killed …
“Border Patrol Nation”: How US Creates War Zones at Boundaries With Mexico, Canada
Todd Miller speaks with Truthout about his new book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security and about how the public is unaware that this …
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An End to the Prison State
Local governments want drones, tanks and SWAT teams for the same reason they want prisons and the death penalty: to keep us under control.
Former Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: US Drone Program Under Obama “Got Out of Hand”
“The excessive secrecy is as counterproductive as some of the strikes are,” says Richard Clarke.
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“Force Protection Alpha in Effect” — Coming to a Town Near You
The latest revelation is but the exposure of one more lie, one more layer of criminality and venality of this corrupt and dangerous program.
UK Government Faces Legal Action Over Failure to Investigate BT Drones Link
Legal charity Reprieve has threatened legal action against the British government over its failure to investigate the role of UK telecoms giant BT in facilitating covert US drone strikes …
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The Three Laws of Pentagon Robotics
Sadly, the Pentagon has instead hired a bunch of philosophy professors from leading US universities to tell them how to make robots murder people morally and ethically.