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This article is long, but it is packed with information about what drones are used by EU security, how they are deployed and what subcontractors are involved. So, if you are looking for information about what is going on, you can find it here.
Published on “Security Architectures in the EU“. Posted by Matthias Monroy, July 2022 Continue reading “Border Drones; EU Border Surveillance”
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by Nick Mottern, published on Counterpunch, May 12, 2023
As the Russian military intensifies its drone attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine’s troops increase usage of homemade drones to hit Russian targets, the region and the world acutely need a proposal calling on both sides to negotiate an end to the war. A first step could be for both sides to agree to stop using weaponized drones.
Current commentary discusses advantages, for one side or the other, to reliance on weaponized drones. But the history of drone warfare in the Ukraine and in earlier wars, reveals two crucial points.
First, the notion that using killer drones will somehow provide the winning edge in combat is magical thinking. In reality, their use only prolongs war and piles up dead bodies. This has been true, in fact, wherever weaponized drones have been used, since the first modern-day drone attack was launched, unsuccessfully, by the United States on the first day of its Illegal invasion of Afghanistan, nearly 22 years ago. Continue reading “Stop Drone Killing, Then Stop the Whole Ukraine War”
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by Jack Gilroy, published in Veterans For Peace Newsletter | Spring 2023 25
Click HERE to see a playlist of 1 or 2 minute videos from each site: Syracuse Federal Bldg, Chase Bank, Bishops Chancellary, Lockheed Martin and Hancock Air Base. Filmed and edited by Nate Henshaw, produced by Mary Anne Grady Flores
An Earth Day celebration mocking the clever fools of the war machine produced a lot of grim fun in Syracuse, New York, on Friday, April 21. A coalition of peace groups including Upstate Drone Action, Veterans For Peace Chapter 90, Peace Action, UpState PaxChristi, and Ithaca Catholic Worker had already issued subpoenas to six merchants of death and their enablers in the Syracuse community to testify at the November 2023 Merchants of Death Tribunal. Now it was time to hear from the war enablers themselves. Continue reading “Upstate Drone Action Earthday 2023, Delivering Subpoenas to Friends of the Merchants of Death”
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by Amanda Lee, posted on ML Today, April 24, 2023
From producing reports and analysis for U.S. policy-makers, to enlisting representatives to write op-eds in corporate media, to providing talking heads for corporate media to interview and give quotes, think tanks play a fundamental role in shaping both U.S. foreign policy and public perception around that foreign policy. Leaders at top think tanks like the Atlantic Council and Hudson Institute have even been called upon to set focus priorities for the House Intelligence Committee. However, one look at the funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors. Continue reading “Six War-Mongering Think Tanks and the Military Contractors That Fund Them”
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by Drago Bosnic, published on InfoBRICS, March 16, 2023
This event illustrates what I have long seen as some critical issues with the use of large weaponizable, intelligence seeking drones. Stealth warriors, they fly below the radar, so to speak. Targets may see them, but they cannot ascertain whether or not they are armed. Regardless, the surveillance they do provides information to weapons somewhere, regardless of whether those weapons are actually on the drone. They cross boundaries without raising red flags. These drones play diverse roles in war, but in no case are they innocent like, say, the Chinese weather balloon the US recently shot down off the our east coast. [jb]
Continue reading “Downing US Drones Saves Thousands of Lives”
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By Kathy Kelly, published on World BEYOND War, March 14, 2023
The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that major powers can benefit from believing that, as Albert Camus once put it, “words are more powerful than munitions.”
This concept was also acknowledged by General Mark Milley, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff who said on January 20th, 2023, that he believes Russia’s war in Ukraine will conclude with negotiations rather than on the battlefield. In November of 2022, asked about prospects for diplomacy in Ukraine, Milley noted that the early refusal to negotiate in World War One compounded human suffering and led to millions more casualties. Continue reading “Blood Does Not Wash Away Blood”
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by Andrew Corbley, published on Antiwar.com, March 7, 2023
Not at any other time in the 21st century has the average American kept up less with the Global War on Terror, and now three presidents later, the questions of legality, productivity, and collateral damage remain as unanswered as they’ve ever been. Continue reading “Slowly But Steadily, the Executive Branch is Bringing Back Widespread Drone Warfare”
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by Patrick Tucker, published in Defense One, March 3, 2023
FORT WALTON, Florida–U.S. defense manufacturers should bring their gear to Ukraine to try it out against an enemy that is more agile than generally perceived, Ukrainian special operators said at a SOF conference.
At least in the electronic spectrum, the war in Ukraine is constantly changing as both sides develop new ideas and countermeasures daily, the operators said, inviting U.S. firms to test their equipment in real battle zones. Continue reading “Come Test Your Gear Against Russian Forces, Ukrainians Urge US Defense Firms”
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by Saeed al-Batati, published on Arabnews.com, February 27, 2023
AL-MUKALLA: Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed after an alleged US drone struck their home in Yemen’s central province of Marib, the latest in a series of similar strikes on Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Continue reading “US drone strike kills 2 suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen’s Marib”
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by Lucas Ropec, published on Gizmodo, February 27, 2023
Flying killer robots used to be a nightmarish sci-fi fantasy—something that only existed in James Cameron movies or Michael Crichton novels. These days, not so much. Not only is drone warfare close to two decades old, but innovations to this lethal technology are being developed all the time.
Case in point: New Scientist magazine recently unearthed a contract between the U.S. Air Force and a little known defense firm that shows the government is using reconnaissance and surveillance drones equipped with facial recognition to aid in special operations missions. Continue reading “Yikes, the U.S. Is Now Using Facial Recognition Rigged Drones for Special Ops”
