Category: Drones

When We Kill Without Caring – a Bill Moyers Essay

Bill Moyers Essay: When We Kill Without Caring from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo. I’m Bill Moyers. This week, the New York Times published a chilling account of how indiscriminate killing remains bad policy even today. This time, it’s done not by young G.I.’s in the field but by anonymous puppeteers guiding drones by remote control against …

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How do you explain drone killings? With post-Orwellian “Newspeak”

Andrew O’Hehir wrote this wonderfully articulated piece that SALON published this morning, with salient commentary on both John Brennan’s confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee and the troubling Justice Department “white paper” spelling out the legal justification for the drone killings of American citizens. The article’s name asks a question answered with …

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