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. These remotely controlled [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At CODEPINK, I’m responsible for reading and responding to our “info” email address. I recently received an email that included this: “Code Pink is a bunch of hypocrites. Why are you remaining silent while Obama sends 27,000 more young Americans to a surge in Afghanistan?” There’s been a steady stream of this kind of criticism [...]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I just posted this new piece, “Put Down The Pom-Poms,” to Huffington Post (and it’s circulating elsewhere, like on CommonDreams) on Vice President Biden’s comments last week that war in Afghanistan is a justified “sacrifice” to “protect” Americans from terrorism. As someone who helped found CODEPINK six years ago in response to the Bush administration’s [...]
Thursday, July 16, 2009
About a week ago, the blogosphere went wild when Sonali Kolhatkar, the host and producer of Uprising Radio and co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a U.S. nonprofit that funds health, educational and training projects for Afghan women, and Mariam Rawi, a member of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan working under a pseudonym, [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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