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By Patricia Burke Covert Action Magazine: Ban Killer Drones: International Grassroots Movement to Ban Weaponized Drones Launched (Part 1) May 10, 2021, Jack Gilroy, writing for Covert Action Magazine reported, An international grassroots movement to ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance, entitled Ban Killer Drones, has been launched. Progressive readers will remember the years of struggle that […]

Biden’s Drone Wars, by Brian Terrell — Rise Up Times “When you drop a bomb from a drone… you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good,” and “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just… fuels the conflict.” General Michael Flynn

Would it surprise you to know that women in Saudi Arabia need a male guardian's permission to get married? Or that if they want to divorce, they have to justify it to a male judge's satisfaction, even though husbands may divorce with neither justification nor judicial decree? Did you know that a Saudi woman's testimony in court is worth only half that of a man’s? A woman's child custody can be revoked if she doesn't dress what is deemed modestly enough to male superiors — or if she works full time or remarries. Many of those practices stem from a particularly strict interpretation...

Antiwar.com Original On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, "How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan," just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, "Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’" as indicating the US war in Afghanistan might actually come to an end on September 11, 2021, almost 20 years after it started. We saw this bait and switch tactic before in President Biden’s earlier announcement about ending US support for the long, miserable war ...

Biden’s Drone Wars Activists Brian Terrell and Ghulam Hussein Ahmadi at the Border Free Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Graffiti by Kabul Knight (Image by Hakim) By Brian Terrell On Thursday, April 15, the  New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, “Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’” as indicating the U.S. war i...