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Drone News Blackout Continues As Mainstream Media Ignore Whistleblowers
In the latest example of journalistic negligence, The New York Times, Washington Post and other large news organizations have continued their apparent policy of no-bad-news-reporting-about-drones.
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Obama's Drone War is a "Recruitment Tool" for ISIS, Say U.S. Air Force Whistleblowers
Four former Air Force service members who operated military drones have written an open letter to President Obama warning that the program of targeted killings has become a "driving force" for ISIS and other terrorist groups.
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Drones, IBM and the Big Data of Death
A study produced for the Defense Department by IBM consultants opens a window into the deep guts of the military-industrial complex, where the technologies of assassination and corporate sales converge.
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The Drone Papers, Part V: Target Africa
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend its footprint across East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula with a network of mostly small and low-profile camps, some of which serve as staging areas for quick-reaction forces.
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The Drone Papers, Part IV: Firing Blind
Newly obtained documents show the U.S. military has faced “critical shortfalls” in the technology and intelligence it uses to find and kill suspected terrorists with drones in Yemen and Somalia.
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The Drone Papers, Part III: Find, Fix, Finish
For the Pentagon, creating an architecture of assassination meant navigating a turf war with the CIA.
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Secretive Airspace: Private Companies Are Now At the Heart of U.S. Drone Warfare
America's overstretched military has hired hundreds of private-sector contractors to analyze top-secret video feeds and help track suspected terrorist leaders – a secretive industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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If the CIA Kills a U.S. Citizen, Amazon Becomes Partner in Assassination
Amazon signed a $600 million cloud-computing deal with the CIA making it responsible for keeping state secrets, aggregating data and helping with drone strikes.
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Why Widely Unregulated Drone Use Is Soaring in Latin America
Manufacturers are targeting markets in Latin America for the martial use of drones in law enforcement and military operations, provoking protests from civil liberties and human rights groups.
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Opposing U.S. Drone Strikes, Pakistani Protesters Block NATO Supply Route
Thousands of people protesting U.S. drone strikes on Saturday blocked a road in northwest Pakistan that is used to move NATO troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan.
