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Assasination By Drone: America’s Fatal Fallacy

June 30, 2016 By Jakob Reimann 1 Comment

“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.” — Pres. George W. Bush

Endless hopes were pinned on Pres. Barack Obama when he entered the Oval Office in 2009. Hardly anyone back then seriously considered it possible that Obama would trump the belligerence even of Pres. George W. Bush who was seemingly hated the world over and would bomb nearly twice as many Muslim countries as his unspeakable predecessor.

On June 23, President Obama announced the killing of Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour through a drone strike in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.

Obama bizarrely praised the extrajudicial execution of Mansour: “Today marks an important milestone in our longstanding effort to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan.”

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, drones, Pakistan, Taliban

Media Outraged By Possible Murder By Putin, Ignore Murders By Obama

February 1, 2016 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a “strong probability” the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably approved” of the act.

The British investigation, which was likely politically motivated, seemingly raised more questions than it answered. But American corporate media were quick to use the accusations against Putin to demonize him, casting him as a pariah brazenly flaunting his disregard for international conventions.

It is curious that The Washington Post draws a contrast between Putin and Obama, whose government is supposedly above such criminality. The newspaper does not mention the U.S. government’s drone assassination program which, as of last year, had killed nearly 2,500 people in at least three countries outside of declared military battlefields. Estimates have shown that at least 90 percent of those killed were not intended targets. None of those killed have been charged with any crimes. And at least two — Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son Abdul Rahman — were Americans.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture Tagged With: Alexander Litvinenko, drones, Russia, The New York Times, Vladimir Putin

Benign State Violence Vs. Barbaric Terrorism

September 22, 2015 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

Seven months ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron lamented the “sickening murder” of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kaseasbeh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). President Barack Obama also decried the “viciousness and barbarity” of the act. Obama declared that al-Kaseasbeh’s murder demonstrated ISIS’s “bankrupt” ideology.

In his home country, al-Kaseasbeh was remembered as a “hero” and a “martyr” by government officials. The killing was seen by the Western coalition and allied Arab monarchies fighting ISIS as a symbol of the evilness of their enemies, which necessitated their own righteous military intervention.

Al-Kaseasbeh was not an innocent civilian. In fact, he was a pilot in the Royal Jordanian Air Force who was bombing territory controlled by ISIS when his F-16 fighter jet crashed. That is to say, he was an active combatant in military hostilities. His combatant status would be equivalent to an ISIS pilot (if they had an Air Force) apprehended after bombing New York City or London. Though it was reported in the British newspaper The Telegraph that al-Kaseasbeh was “kidnapped,” a military combatant engaged in armed conflict on the battlefield cannot be kidnapped. He was captured.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: drones, endless war, Global War on Terror, ISIS, terrorism

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