Weaponized Drones on American Soil?
image source Nicholas West Activist Post People were shocked in 2007 when Texas news KPRC revealed that local police were conducting drone tests on American soil. Some…
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Study: Afghan drone strikes resulted in 10 times more civilian casualties than manned air strikes
photo credit: Steve Rhodes/Flickr Madison Ruppert Activist Post A new study conducted by a U.S. military adviser examining a year of drone strikes in Afghanistan…
Will the U.S. Gov’t Target Whistleblowers With Drones?
Yes, things have come this far. There is open talk of killing NSA leaker Edward Snowden via a drone strike. Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton…
Why Won’t The FBI Tell the Public About its Drone Program?
Jennifer Lynch EFF Today we’re publishing—for the first time—the FBI’s drone licenses and supporting records for the last several years. Unfortunately, to say that the…
House Passes Ban on Drone Strikes Against US Citizens
Activist Post An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014 that will ban drone strikes against American citizens passed in the…
Department of Justice: drone strikes on American citizens are legal because Obama and Holder said so
“Where law ends tyranny begins” seen on the Justice Dept. building, D.C. photo credit: joewcampbell/Flickr Madison Ruppert Activist Post In a court filing this week,…
Mind-Controlled Drones Take Flight
Activist Post Electronics turn a person’s thoughts into commands for a robot. Using a brain-computer interface technology pioneered by University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor…
Drone strikes kill seven or eight suspected militants in Yemen, despite Obama’s promised change
Chicago anti-drone protest image credit: World Can’t Wait/Flickr Madison Ruppert Activist Post It’s business as usual despite President Barack Obama’s promised changes to the U.S….
Drone reportedly kills top Pakistani Taliban figure as Pakistanis continue to decry drone program
image source: State Department Madison Ruppert Activist Post According to Pakistani officials and militants, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a drone…
Database Your Face: Drones to Employ Facial Recognition, Ending Anonymity
image source Nicholas West Activist Post In a matter of just a few years, we have gone from drones in American skies being a conspiracy…
Jeremy Scahill on Drone Killings of Americans
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Obama Admits to Killing Four Americans with Drones
Dees Illustration Activist Post Up until now the Obama Administration has been coy about their policy to kill Americans abroad using drones. Today, Attorney General…
House Judiciary Committee drone hearing: one step closer to legislation restricting drone use
Chris Calabrese of the ACLU delivers his testimony Madison Ruppert Activist Post The House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing yesterday examining the privacy…
I Confronted a Drone Pilot
Aaron Dykes Activist Post Who flies the drones America uses to take out military targets in foreign locales all over the globe? I had the…