MEDIA ROOTS — Obama’s Chief Counterterrorism Advisor, or, as Jeremy Scahill puts it, “for all practical purposes, President Obama’s hit man or assassination czar,” John Brennan has been exposed by the declassification of a 30-page document, wherein he’s asked about drone strikes and targeted killings in the US. Brennan did not rule out the possibility, and began to lay the … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – On this episode of Breaking the Set: Abby Martin talks about Obama’s kill list, which one official has called a macabre “baseball card” set of alleged “terrorists”; Andy Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, talks about the danger of Obama’s drone wars on the year anniversary of the drone assassination that killed Anwar al-Aulaqi and his teenage … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – While privacy is certainly the dominant concern surrounding the controversial use of drones in this country, the lack of technological barriers to entry is the grease on the slippery slope. However, despite privacy concerns, the defense industry will continue its voracious lobbying effort to make sure drone technology becomes increasingly accessible to corporate commercialization. Abby Martin of Media Roots … Read More
