Carey Wedler

U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 432% Since Trump Took Office

The Trump administration has provided little acknowledgment of the human toll these strikes are taking.

Carey Wedler
By Carey Wedler
Yemenis walk past graffiti showing a US drone. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush’s drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten times more drone strikes than the previous president, and estimates late in Obama’s presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians. In 2015, it was reported

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Pepsi, Coca-Cola Facing Boycotts In India Over Water Use

“Coca-Cola is the number one buyer of sugarcane in India and Pepsi is number three. If you take into account the water used for sugarcane, then we’re using 400 litres of water to make a bottle of Cola.”

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By Carey Wedler
A man walks past a truck that distributes Coca Cola in Mumbai, India. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

(REPORT) --- Trade organizations in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu are boycotting Coca-Cola and Pepsi amid concerns the two companies are using excessive amounts of water to produce their products. The Guardian reports that “[m]ore than a million traders in India” are now boycotting the drinks. “These foreign companies are using up scarce water

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Saddam Hussein’s CIA Interrogator Reveals New Information About Bush’s Invasion Of Iraq

“You know, they had their minds made up from day one. And then after 9/11, that’s when the death warrant for Saddam Hussein was signed.”

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By Carey Wedler
U.S. soldiers cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Jerome Delay)

(ANALYSIS) --- Last month, former CIA analyst John Nixon made headlines when he asserted that while he was interrogating Saddam Hussein after the 2003 invasion, the dictator warned him that the U.S. would fail in Iraq. Now, Nixon has revealed yet another unsettling detail: the Bush administration knew they were going to take on Iraq on “day one”

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The CIA, Washington Post, And Russia: What You’re Not Being Told

History reveals actual collusion between the CIA and news outlets, including the Washington Post.

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By Carey Wedler
Newly Declassified Documents CIA Media

According to an unsubstantiated article by the Washington Post, anonymous CIA officials have confirmed that the Russian government hacked the United States election to favor Donald Trump. Though it’s entirely possible the Russian government attempted to influence the election, the Post has been widely criticized — for the second time in a month —

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DEA Claims The Media Makes Marijuana Arrests Difficult

The DEA blames the media for highlighting the benefits of marijuana, even as many stories about the potential benefits of cannabis are rooted in ongoing discoveries made through scientific research.

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By Carey Wedler
DEA

According to the DEA, the problem with cannabis in the United States isn’t that it’s still designated a dangerous drug with no medicinal value in spite of volumes of emerging scientific research indicating otherwise. The problem is actually that the media has made it difficult for government agents to arrest people for selling and consuming it.

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Thousands Of Veterans Sign Up To Join Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

With 2,100 veterans signed up to make a stand, it appears police will be forced to reconcile their aggressive behavior with the nonviolent show of veterans, who intend to march toward police on site.

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By Carey Wedler
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline hold a ceremony at the main protest camp Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Last week, the newly formed group “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” called on veterans to nonviolently stand up to militarized law enforcement at the site of the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock protests. Since its initial call to action, the veterans’ movement has grown exponentially. Last week, the Facebook event, which was launched by Army

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National Guard Uses Helicopter To Raid Elderly Woman For One Pot Plant

The woman was not arrested or charged in the raids, provided she allowed police access and didn’t demand to see a warrant.

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By Carey Wedler
This file photo shows an elderly woman who suffers from severe arthritis and an eye condition similar to glaucoma, puffing on a pipe filled with marijuana.

Though Americans are growing increasingly comfortable with the prospect of legal marijuana, the Massachusetts National Guard and the state’s police are proving resistant to change — so much so that last month, they used a military helicopter to raid an elderly woman’s home over a single cannabis plant. At the end of September, the Daily

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