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Pakistan Drones

Reports: U.S. Drone Strikes Ineffective

The Huffington Post | Eline Gordts | Posted 05.22.2013 | World

U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal regions are an ineffective solution to the problems they try to address, a new report by the International Cri...

David Wood

Drone Man: A Candid, Chilling Conversation With Our Top Drone Pilot

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics

He always watches for the kids. Peering through cameras and sensors from his computer station thousands of miles away, he absorbs the details of da...

Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective

Brian Glyn Williams | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Brian Glyn Williams

While there is no such thing as an excusable killing of a civilian, these statistics, and the constant pressure to prevent further terror acts on American soil, somewhat mitigate the harm caused by the CIA's controversial drone assassination campaign.

10 Reflections on Drones (Part I)

Robert Jay Lifton | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics
Robert Jay Lifton

Drones have entered our consciousness. The following reflections do not address legal, political, or military issues, though these have great importance. Rather I seek to begin a conversation about our relationship as human beings to these robotic objects as weapons.

U.S. Drone Strikes Causing Mental Health Crisis In Pakistan

Agence France Presse | Guillaume Lavallee | Posted 04.09.2013 | World

After nine friends and relatives were killed in a US drone strike four years ago, Mohammed Fahim took tranquillisers to blot out the nightmares.The 19...

Origins Of Not-So-Secret Drone War Examined

New York Times | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics

Nek Muhammad knew he was being followed....

Why Liberals Should Stand With Rand

Scott Blakeman | Posted 05.11.2013 | Politics
Scott Blakeman

Ron Wyden was the only Democratic senator to stand with Rand Paul during the filibuster. Where were the other liberals?

David Wood

Pakistan Ambassador: U.S. Armed Drone Strikes Are 'Red Line'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Smarting under the U.S. drone attacks it calls a violation of its sovereignty and international law, Pakistan has threatened to withhold...

Drones: An Outlier In A Transparent Presidency

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Sarah Holewinski

Who is targeted, why, how and what civilian protection measures are put in place are unknown to anyone but a tight inner circle of policy makers -- an about-face for a president who pledged a transparent government in his first term. And Congress is following his lead.

The Truth About Obama's Drone Campaign: It's About Attrition, Not Decapitation

Alexander B. Downes | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Alexander B. Downes

Drone strikes are mostly killing low-level Pakistani militants, not al Qaeda leaders. This strategy is unlikely to cause the collapse of al Qaeda or even the Pakistani Taliban and may have counterproductive effects. Obama's second term may therefore require new thinking on drones.

Michael Calderone

Will Media Hold Obama Accountable On Drone Strikes?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.16.2013 | Media

NEW YORK -– As President Barack Obama begins his second term next week, the administration's drone war is having a media moment, with an uptick in r...

John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old

Medea Benjamin | Posted 03.10.2013 | Politics
Medea Benjamin

Remember how the American public was assured that the prisoners locked up in Guantanamo were the "worst of the worst," only to find out that hundreds were innocent people who had been sold to the US military by bounty hunters?

Officials: Drones Kill 8 Suspected Militants In Pakistan

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 01.08.2013 | World

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Several missiles fired from American drones slammed into a compound near the Afghan border in Pakistan early Tuesday, ki...

U.S. Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Leader

AP | RASOOL DAWAR and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 02.08.2013 | World

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A U.S. drone strike has killed a senior al-Qaida leader in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani intel...

Radley Balko

Arrest Of Catholic Anti-War Protester Highlights Emergence, Tension With Church’s Progressive Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 12.03.2012 | Politics

Anti-war activist Brian Terrell began serving a six-month sentence Friday at the federal prison camp in Yankton, South Dakota. Last April, Terrell and...

Pakistan Secretly Racing To Develop Its Own Drones

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 11.17.2012 | World

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Pakistan is secretly racing to develop its own armed drones, frustrated with U.S. refusals to provide the aircraft, but is strugg...

This Is It: America Needs to Hear Obama, Romney Talk About Drone Strikes in Last Debate

Robert Greenwald | Posted 12.21.2012 | Politics
Robert Greenwald

Monday's debate may be the largest American audience to pay attention to the subject of drones strikes that are done in their name. That is, if moderator Bob Schieffer dares press the candidates on what may well be the most ominous power a president has: choosing who to kill.

The Alliance from Hell

Dilip Hiro | Posted 12.18.2012 | World
Dilip Hiro

While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are still locked in an awkward post-9/11 embrace that, at this juncture, neither can afford to let go of.

When a Drone Flies Over Waziristan, Does It Make a Sound?

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.17.2012 | World
Robert Naiman

"The U.S. missile-attacks destroy militant training compounds and cars but they also hit mosques, homes, religious schools and civilian vehicles. I witnessed the fear, stress and depression this causes for the tribal communities on a visit to the region in May."

Citizen Diplomacy in Pakistan's Tribal Areas: "You Are Welcome!"

Medea Benjamin | Posted 12.09.2012 | World
Medea Benjamin

For the last week in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, and then in the nation's tribal areas, our delegation that came to Pakistan to protest U.S. drones has been showered with tremendous hospitality, warmth and friendship.

Pakistan Blocks Anti-Drone Protest

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 12.07.2012 | World

TANK, Pakistan — The Pakistani military blocked a convoy carrying thousands of Pakistanis and a small contingent of U.S. anti-war activists from...

Americans Stage Anti-Drone Protests In Pakistan

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 12.05.2012 | World

ISLAMABAD — A group of American anti-war activists are in Pakistan to join a march into the country's tribal belt to protest U.S. drone strikes ...

Why I'm Going to Pakistan: Under Scrutiny, the Drone Strike Policy Will Fall

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.28.2012 | World
Robert Naiman

Most Democrats want to get U.S. troops the hell out of Afghanistan (outside of Official Washington, most Republicans agree.) But, the story goes, these Democrats have to have an "alternative," and the "alternative" is drone strikes.

Joshua Hersh

Pakistani Official: Drones Are Top Reason For Anti-Americanism

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 09.29.2012 | World

The foreign minister of Pakistan told a gathering in New York on Thursday evening that the top cause of anti-Americanism in her country is the U.S. ta...

Drones In Pakistan Do More Than Kill

AP | REBECCA SANTANA | Posted 11.22.2012 | World

ISLAMABAD — The use of drones in Pakistan normally brings to mind images of U.S. spy planes attacking tribal areas. But drones now are being use...