Short contribution of Laurie Calhoun to the KPFA Saturday Evening News on August 6, 2022, with David Rosenberg about drone assassination and the logic of “violence breeds violence”. This three-minute exchange spans 5:10-8:15. Many other foreign policy topics are also...
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WBAI News in Exile: the al Zawahiri Drone Strike in Kabul
News in Exile (WBAI): Paul DeRienzo and Laurie Calhoun consider the al Zawahiri drone strike report. Discussion begins at 14:30 and lasts five minutes....
Muslim Network News: The al Zawahiri Drone Strike and “We Kill Because We Can”
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid and Laurie Calhoun discuss the Zawahiri drone strike and "We Kill Because We Can" on Muslim Network News - August 2, 2022. Drone discussion begins at 15:36 and lasts 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/sh1ZEQYuhIA
Drone Assassination: Inconvenient Facts
On the assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri by U.S. drone in Kabul (from Accuracy.org): [Laurie Calhoun] said today: “President Biden has pivoted from the multiple crises of his administration — inflation, heightened tensions with China and Iran, and even the very real...
News Roundup 6/18/2022
Assange British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday signed an extradition order to send Julian Assange to stand trial in America. [Link] Julian’s wife Stella vowed to fight the order. "We're going to fight this. We're going to use every appeal avenue," Stella...
Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Lethality: This Is Your Security Force
On May 24, 2022, eighteen-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos murdered twenty-one people, including nineteen young children, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The horror of what unfolded over the course of seventy-five minutes is blamed by activists on the fact...
Smart War Disinformation and the U.S. Military State
Drone killing has long been billed by the military as a cleaner, smarter way to conduct war. The standard marketing line has been that with drones it is possible to neutralize even elusive enemies such as factional terrorists while sparing the lives of innocent...
KPFA Saturday Evening News Segment: Extrajudicial Execution Using Lethal Drones
Laurie Calhoun answers David Rosenberg's questions about drone killing and whether President Biden is likely to curtail the practice. The drone discussion spans minutes 10:15 to 13:20 of the Saturday Evening program on March 26, 2022. (Recorded on March 25, 2022)....
U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes
U.S. hypocrisy on war crimes is discussed by Laurie Calhoun from minutes 12 to 16:30 of this report on WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo....
COI #247: Zelensky Dreams of a NATO No Fly Zone in Ukraine
On COI #247, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest Ukraine news, a potential deal to end the war, this weekend’s Iranian missile attack in northern Iraq, as well as recent Israeli drone strikes inside Iran. Kyle updates the war and the situation on the...
Pentagon Report Blames Poor Leadership, ‘Culture of Complacency’ for Deadly 2020 Attack in Kenya
The Department of Defense has issued two reviews of the 2020 al-Shabaab attack on the Camp Simba military base in Kenya that killed three Americans. The reports name poor leadership, inadequate training and a “culture of complacency” as the leading causes that allowed...
From GITMO to the ‘Killing Machine’
Twenty years ago, on January 11, 2002, the prison at Guantánamo Bay (GITMO) admitted its first round of post-9/11 terrorist suspects. Two recent films, The Mauritanian (2021) and The Forever Prisoner (2021), chart parts of the ugly history of the facility, during...
COI #196: Generating a Conflict in Ukraine guest Dave DeCamp
On COI #196, Dave DeCamp - News Editor at Antiwar.com - returns to explain escalating tensions with Russia over Ukraine. In recent weeks the US has engaged in military drills along Russia’s western border while encouraging a Ukrainian military build-up. The result has...
News Roundup 11/1/21
US News Arizona may use its National Guard to fill staffing shortages at prisons. [Link] New York state will divest from Ben and Jerry’s parent company, Unilever, over the ice cream company’s decision not to sell ice cream in the West Bank settlements. [Link] A jury...
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