Chicago Mayor Pushing for Surveillance Drones
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chicago is already one of the most surveilled cities in America. Now a new legislative push from Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying to get Big Brother in the skies.
Trump’s Drone War Is Worse Than We Thought
Reading Time: 1 minute In November, WhoWhatWhy alerted its readers to the fact that President Donald Trump is continuing the Obama administration’s drone war while suppressing important information on the drone strikes conducted this year.While that is bad enough, things are actually much worse.The number of drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen has soared as Trump appears to have Read More
Stories We Didn’t Allow to Slip Through the Cracks
Reading Time: 4 minutes It would be tough for us to pick our best stories of 2017, but here are a few that you might have missed. More than anything, they show the wide range of issues we covered this year.
The Drone War under Trump: Killing More People, Hiding More Facts
Reading Time: 4 minutes While President Donald Trump seeks to dismantle almost everything put in place by the Obama administration, one area where he stays the course is the drone war.
America’s Culture of Killing: It Doesn’t Begin at Home
Reading Time: 19 minutes A surprising link between US foreign policy and violence on America’s streets. Philosopher, cultural critic and author Laurie Calhoun explains what US behavior abroad has to do with domestic gun culture.
Drone Operators Rebel
Reading Time: 3 minutes Four former drone operators came forward to strongly criticize President Barack Obama’s drone war, saying it bred terror, killed innocents, and left the ones pulling the trigger grievously wounded in spirit.
Drone Deaths, Obama, and a Better Use for these Craft
Reading Time: 1 minute Earlier this year, two innocent hostages—one American, one Italian—were killed by a US-led unmanned drone strike meant to target al-Qaeda. By some estimates, the drone strikes that President Obama has authorized have murdered more innocent people than the 9/11 attacks. As war rages on across the Middle East and the US continues to fire unmanned strikes that are killing civilians, it’s worth looking back and discovering how this technology came to be… and how it could be put to positive uses instead. See this documentary.
RadioWHO: Destruction, Automated Warfare and Death from Above
Reading Time: 1 minute Killing by remote control is already a reality, and it’s about to get a lot cheaper. Not only that, the image of a perfect, surgical killing machine presented to us is far from the reality. Tune in for Jeff Schechtman’s conversation with Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s magazine.
TVWHY: Counterintelligence—Part 5, Drone Nation
Reading Time: 1 minute Part 5 of a new five-part documentary on the national security state
DEA Plan to Kill Narcos
Reading Time: 17 minutes The “War on Terror” just keeps expanding. Next, it could go south of the border. And target a whole new group of scary folks. Where is all this headed? We take a look in this three-part series.
EXCLUSIVE – Petraeus: the Plot Thickens
Reading Time: 10 minutes Was the ambitious General David Petraeus targeted for take-down by competing interests in the US military/intelligence hierarchy—years before his abrupt downfall last year in an adultery scandal? Previously unreported documents analyzed by WhoWhatWhy suggest as much. They provide new insight into the scandalous extramarital romance that led to Petraeus’s resignation as CIA director in November Read More
Big Brother, Kill Lists, and Secrecy: What to Expect from Obama’s Second Term
Reading Time: 13 minutes The reelection of Barack Obama will ensure 16 full years of George W. Bush’s national security policies, adding more noxious infringements on American civil liberties by the year.
Did You Hear About the Shooting?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Something is wrong with a country where mass murder seems a routine occurrence. The fact that we merely report these things without really doing anything about them is even more telling.
TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria
Reading Time: 1 minute WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker interviewed on drone strikes, strategy regarding the Taliban, policy towards Pakistan, and the situation in Syria.
The CIA-Pentagon Shuffle: The Fake Story and The Real One
Reading Time: 7 minutes There’s the story they want you to believe about Obama’s palace shakeup. And then there’s the real, more disturbing one.
From the “Hell in a Handbasket” Department: Domestic Drones and Tainted Milk?
Reading Time: 3 minutes So have you heard? Any day, there will be these mini-drones, little unmanned planes, following you around. And no, you won’t have to be a member of the Taliban. Just an American who is suspected of something or other. When you aren’t panicked about this new, inevitable expansion of the police state, you can at Read More