Did you hear the joke about the predator drone that bombed? Medea Benjamin and Nancy Mancias At the 2004 Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner, President Bush joked about searching for WMDs under Oval Office furniture. The joke backfired when parents who had lost their children fighting in Iraq said they found the joke offensive and [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Drones: Made Locally, Killing Globally by Carol Jahnkow & Nancy Mancias San Diego is home to defense contractors General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Northrop Grumman, the world’s largest and leading manufacturers of drones. General Atomics builds the Predator and Reaper drones. Northrop Grumman provides the software for a similar aircraft, the Global Hawk spy drone. [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
By Nancy Mancias While many Americans spent their Thanksgiving holiday sitting around the table feasting on turkey and slumbering over the TV to watch football, members of CODEPINK Women for Peace used this Thanksgiving holiday to raise awareness about the war in Afghanistan. Creech Air Force Base, just north of Las Vegas, is the headquarters [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Obama administration has made a $128 billion request to fund war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq for the coming fiscal year. $128 billion is a very interesting figure. By 2019, the Urban Institute concludes that a single payer health plan would save $20 billion annually based on a projected 6% annual increase in baseline [...]
Monday, July 13, 2009
Just got back from Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, right outside Las Vegas, at a “Ground the Drones” vigil. (Why? Check out our press release.) In trying to engage in civil disobedience by trying to block traffic into the base, three people were arrested including Father Louis Vitale. Several more people were injured. Seeing [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
• House Armed Services Committee had recently heard testimony from David Kilcullen–a former adviser to General David Petraeus–who believes the drone attacks take too many civilian lives. Kilcullen testified that while drone attacks are suspected to have killed 14 Al-Qaeda leaders since 2006 in Pakistan, at the same time the weapons have killed about 700 [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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