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Pakistan Foreign Minister: Drones are Top Cause of Anti Americanism
Posted on October 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM |
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline September/ 28/2012
Pakistan's foreign minister said last night that the top cause of anti-Americanism in her country is the U.S. use of drone attacks.
Agence France Presse reports Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar'd comments in a speech in New York to the Asia Society :
"The use of unilateral strikes on Pakistani te...
Read Full Post »Why I am going to Pakistan next week
Posted on October 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
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Why I am going to Pakistan next week
I am very thrilled with the opportunity to go to Pakistan as a member of the CodePink Peace Delegation representing Fellowship of Reconciliation. We will be going to Islamabad, where we will have the opportunity to meet with survivors of drone strikes and drone strike victims, and we will caravan to South Waziristan where we will rally with the people against the wars that have come to their region through US agency over the last few dec...
Read Full Post »Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones: The Strikes's Effect on Life in Pakistan
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:50 PM |
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Interviews with the civilians terrorized daily by American foreign policy The Gardian, Sep/25/2012
Do you remember how it felt in America on 9/11?
The humanitarian worker does. He was in New York City. "I remember people crying in the streets," he says. "People were afraid about what migh...
Read Full Post »Drones: The West's New Terror Campaign
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:35 PM |
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The Guardian, 24/September/2012
Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA's drone...
Read Full Post »Should we worry about the rise of the drone?
Posted on October 7, 2012 at 3:00 PM |
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New Yorker, May, 14, 2012
ABSTRACT: THE WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE about drones. The prospect of unmanned flight has been around—depending on your definition—since Archytas of Tarentum reputedly designed a steam-powered mechanical pigeon, in the fourth century B.C., or since Nikola Tesla, in 1898, demonstrated a radio-controlled motorboat at an exposition in Madison Square Garden. By the sixties the Air Force was deploying unmanned reconnaissance jets over Southeast Asia. Still, ...
Read Full Post »Marching To Wazirestan
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM |
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Marching to Waziristan
by Judy Bello
First thing in the morning I'll board the bus heading for South Waziristan. Thirty five westerners will be heading for Dehr Ismail Khan and on to the border town of Kotkai, including Clive Stafford Smith of the London based organization Reprieve, who started our defending...
Read Full Post »Why I am going to Pakistan next week
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:10 AM |
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Why I am going to Pakistan next week
I am very thrilled with the opportunity to go to Pakistan as a member of the CodePink Peace Delegation representing Fellowship of Reconciliation. We will be going to Islamabad, where we will have the opportunity to meet with survivors of drone strikes and drone strike victims, and we will caravan to South Waziristan where we will rally with the people against the wars that have come to their region throug...
Read Full Post »Peace Makers in Court in Missouri
Posted on September 27, 2012 at 4:35 PM |
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Peace Makers in Court in Missouri-
Anti-drone Activists to be Sentenced in Jefferson City on October 11; Nuclear Weapons Resisters to be Tried in Kansas City on October 12
For immediate release: Sept. 26, 2012
Contacts: Brian Terrell, 773-853-1886; Ron Faust, 816-582-6893; Henry Stoever, 913-375-0045
Drones and nuclear weapons—what a combo!
Come to Oct. 11-12 events about drones and making parts for nuclear weapons.
First, at 9...
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