At the High Line, a popular tourist attraction in New York City, visitors to the West side of Lower Manhattan ascend above street level to what was once an elevated freight train line and is now a tranquil and architecturally intriguing promenade. Here walkers enjoy...
Ban Killer Drones: International Campaign of Civil Disobedience Necessary (Part 2)
Brian Terrell - 3
A large campaign of civil disobedience is necessary to abolish one of the U.S. military's monstrous creations
The headline of the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan on November 30, 2012, page one above the fold with my photo, read “Terrell: American Drone Strikes Must Stop.”
I was served well by this...
Ban Killer Drones: International Grassroots Movement to Ban Weaponized Drones Launched (Part 1)
Jack Gilroy - 2
An international grassroots movement to ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance, entitled Ban Killer Drones, has been launched. Go to www.bankillerdrones.org to see the teamwork results of this excellent resource on the United States’s not-so-secret assassinations around the world.
A group of long-time anti-drone war organizers, including Nick...
Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance
Kathy Kelly - 4
At a time in my life when I barely knew drones existed, a young Lebanese mother mourning the death of her six-year-old daughter, Zainab, helped me understand how monitoring by drones terrified her and her neighbors.
It was the summer of 2006, during a war referred to as the Israeli-Hezbollah...
Former CIA Director John Brennan Whitewashes History in Shameless Self-serving Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
During the Vietnam War era, peace activists compared American war planners like Robert S. McNamara and Henry Kissinger to Albert Speer, Hitler’s Minister of War Production and Armaments who stood out for his lack of ideological zeal in supporting the Nazi cause. What motivated Speer, rather, was a cold...