“Sometimes there was no sugar or Splenda for coffee. On chicken wing night, wings were rationed at six per person. Over the holidays, housing units were stocked with Meals Ready to Eat, the prepared food for soldiers in the field.”
- From “A Look Inside the American Embassy in Baghdad,” a photo slideshow by Lucas Jackson for the NY Times
dread scott - money to burn
Drone Zone - No Protest
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery!
Moloch whose blood is running money!
Moloch whose fingers are ten armies!
Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!
Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
ABACUS Poster/Folio designs by Rick Valicenti, 3st and John Pobojewski
The shattering title posters were designed to be released in sequence over the course of the film’s run at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Pretty cool idea.
(click the image for high res/larger view—you’ll want to inspect these closer)
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden Comes Out Against Drone Strikes
Michael Hayden, former CIA director came out against drone strikes to kill U.S. citizens. Cenk Uygur reads Mr. Hayden’s comments and discusses his opinion of these drone strikes.
Glenn Greenwald: U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners
On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in the middle:
Asked for documentation of Tariq and Waheed’s deaths, Akbar did not provide pictures of the missile strike scene. Virtually none exist, since drones often target people who show up at the scene of an attack.
What made that sentence so amazing was that it basically amounts to a report that the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie.
In a just-released, richly documented report, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, on behalf of the Sunday Times, documents that this is exactly what the U.S. is doing — and worse:
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals, an investigation by the Bureau for the Sunday Times has revealed.
The findings are published just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”… .
A three month investigation including eye witness reports has found evidence that at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. The tactics have been condemned by leading legal experts.
Although the drone attacks were started under the Bush administration in 2004, they have been stepped up enormously under Obama.
There have been 260 attacks by unmanned Predators or Reapers in Pakistan by Obama’s administration – averaging one every four days.
It’s pretty bad when the CIA Director under the Bush administration, who conducted activities which blatantly violated civil liberties, thinks we’ve gone too far. Amazing.
London militarizes for the Olympics. Unmanned aerial surveillance drones, military troops, ground-to-air missiles.
(Source: youtube.com)
drone swarm
