Tag Archives: drone war

Good At Killing People

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Muller

The 2009 Peace Nobel Prize laureate, Barack Obama, is said to have told aides, after U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki had been killed in Yemen in an American drone attack, “Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” and “Didn’t know … Continue reading →

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False Promises

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Muller

On the eve of the Bradley Manning court martial verdict on charges including “aiding the enemy”, Huffington Post reports that the website Change.gov (“the office of the president-elect”) where the elect president of 2008, Barack Obama, had laid out his … Continue reading →

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“… we must move beyond a mindset of perpetual war”

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Muller

After five years, President Obama returned to Berlin today and delivered another “historical” speech for about 4000 invited guests and probably millions watching him on TV. A bit boring (since we had already heard Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Chancellor Angela … Continue reading →

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Global Assassination Campaign

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Muller

As Noam Chomsky has described earlier this year President Obama’s drone war on terror in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Yemen and several other countries as just a “global assassination campaign”, designers at Pitch Interactive have now described every known attack by … Continue reading →

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Why Umm Al Melh?

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Muller

Wired‘s Danger Room’s Noah Shachtman drew last week world-wide attention to an airbase under construction in the Arabian desert Rub’ Al Khali near the border to Yemen. He speculated that this might have been the  American drone base from which … Continue reading →

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