Pakistan Drone Attacks

The Peace Prize War President

David Bromwich | Posted 05.15.2012

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David Bromwich

In his campaign to win the election as a war president, Barack Obama flatters the worst vices of chauvinism and panders to the most vulgar and brutal idea of the qualities that define a leader and the actions that ennoble a country. No alchemy of eloquence can atone for the confession of moral surrender involved in such a boast.

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Remotely Piloted War

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.24.2012

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Tom Engelhardt

Think about it: What does a drone do? Like a modern car factory, it replaces a pilot, a skilled job that takes significant training, with robotics and a degraded version of the same job outsourced elsewhere.

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Pakistan in 2011: The Downward Spiral Continued

Saad Khan | Posted 02.29.2012

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Saad Khan

Compared with the previous year, Pakistanis did not see any improvement in their lives in 2011. The downward spiral continued and life became tougher. One can only hope that the year 2012 will bring some relief to their sad faces.

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CIA Reportedly Suspends Drone Attacks In Pakistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 12.24.2011

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Reporting from Washington-- In an effort to mend badly frayed relations with Pakistan, the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of...

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Tenuous Ties on 'AfPak' Frontier

Jayshree Bajoria | Posted 01.31.2012

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Jayshree Bajoria

A NATO air attack that killed at least twenty-four Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border has further damaged a U.S.-Pakistan relationship that has lurched from crisis to crisis this year.

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The CIA's Unaccountable Drone War Claims Another 16-year-old Casualty

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 01.10.2012

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Pratap Chatterjee

Last Friday, I met a boy, just before he was assassinated by the CIA.

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U.S. Reportedly Considering Big Shift In Military Strategy

AP | By ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Turkey are discussing how to continue cooperation against terrorist targets in northern Iraq after U.S. forces leave Iraq i...

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Pakistan's Biggest Threats May Not Be What You Think They Are

Michael Kugelman | Posted 10.10.2011

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Michael Kugelman

Pakistan will neither attain lasting food, energy, and water security, nor educate its masses, until its political leadership removes the indigenous obstacles that have long constrained the country's development.

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Pakistan: Drone Attacks Are Wrong, Regardless

Ethan Casey | Posted 09.18.2011

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Ethan Casey

Drone attacks are wrong. I'm sure to be called an appeaser of terrorists for saying that, particularly in light of the latest events in Mumbai. But I ...

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The Case for Drones

Raza Habib Raja | Posted 09.12.2011

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Raza Habib Raja

More than 35,000 people in Pakistan have died due to religious terrorism and yet our media and urban middle class is more worried about drones which aim at perpetrators of those horrendous crimes.

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Pakistan's Army Chief Fights To Keep His Job

The New York Times | JANE PERLEZ | Posted 08.15.2011

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger fro...

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After Bin Laden, Time for Clear U.S. Policy on Targeted Killing

Chris Rogers | Posted 07.09.2011

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Chris Rogers

Having killed the world's most notorious terrorist in a cross-border "kill operation," U.S.-targeted killing is at the center of public attention and international scrutiny. Now is the time for the U.S. to publicly announce a clear policy on targeted killing.

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Taking the War Out of Air War: What U.S. Air Power Actually Does

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Engelhardt

U.S. air power is a form of warfare which guarantees the American side quite literal, godlike invulnerability. Can it be war if one side is never in danger?

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Man Sues CIA For Drone Strike That Killed Son

The Guardian | Declan Walsh in Islamabad | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Pakistani journalist whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike has started a legal push to charge America's top spy in Pakistan with murder. ...

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U.S. Pushing Pakistan For Expanded Drone Operation Areas

Washington Post | Greg Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD - The United States has renewed pressure on Pakistan to expand the areas where CIA drones can operate inside the country, reflecting concern...

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Spectacles of Sympathy in America's Culture of Violence

Mark Cassello | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Cassello

On Monday, January 10, 2011, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, I led a moment of silence for the victims of the tragic shootings in Arizona. As with other ...

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Drone Reporting

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Koehler

The media can spread ignorance not merely by reporting inaccurate information, but by purveying even accurate or partially accurate information in a context devoid of the least moral intelligence.

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Top Spy Pulled From Pakistan After Death Threats

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The CIA has pulled its top spy out of Pakistan after terrorists threatened to kill him, current and former U.S. officials said, an ...

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A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan

Fatima Bhutto | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fatima Bhutto

What will Pakistan's elite learn from WikiLeaks? Undoubtedly nothing. And if we're going by the White House's response so far, nor will Washington feel more constrained than it ever has running its informal global empire.

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Record Level Of US Drone Attacks Hit Afghan Militants

AP | RASOOL DAWAR and KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — Drone aircraft unleashed a missile attack in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border Wednesday, keeping up the most int...

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Damsels in Distress: Using Victimized Women as Political Ploys

Beenish Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beenish Ahmed

Caught in the crossfire of this battle for hearts and minds waged in the most paternalistic and patriarchic of ways, women are seen invariably as victims.

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Obama's Escalating Robot War in Pakistan Is Making a Terror Attack More Likely

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

This robot slaughter drags us into a terrible feedback loop, where the US launches more drone attacks to deal with jihadism, which makes jihadism worse, which prompts more drone attacks, which makes jihadism worse -- and on and on.

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A Lesson Not Yet Learned in Pakistan

Don Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Kraus

My friends at CIVIC just released a new report with findings on the conflicts in northwest Pakistan, particularly the civilian harm occurring on a dai...

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Drone Victims Speak

Chris Rogers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Rogers

Though victims acknowledged that drones often kill militants, they decried the strikes for the harm they cause to civilians and claimed that they are ineffective at combating militancy in the long-run.

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Drone Warfare on Trial

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Koehler

We have to find a way to interrupt the false consensus of military-industrial America at the level at which it wages war and engages with the rest of the planet. Doing so takes persistence and courage -- and sometimes a breakthrough occurs.

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