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We Use Metadata to Kill People; Air Force Religious Lies; Costs of Remote Control War; Pentagon on the Charles
Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based on Metadata. Since the very first Snowden leak a year ago, one of the more common refrains from defenders of the program is “but it’s just metadata, not actual content, so what’s the big deal?” Of course, what he leaves out is that the DOJ believes that the federal government has the legal authority to kill Americans based on this metadata. So that kind of matters.
The Last Lie of an Air Force Academy Cadet. To be branded as a “not-Christian enough” troublemaker before one even reports to his first duty assignment can have an enormously disheartening impact on a new graduate of the US Air Force Academy. Ironically, for the sake of saving one’s face and gaining “moral” or “ethical” legitimacy in the eyes of their peers and superiors, these cadets must lie.
The True Costs of Remote Control War. Imagine if those drone wars going on in Pakistan and Yemen (as well as the United States) had a human face all the time, so that we could understand what it was like to live constantly, in and out of those distant battle zones, with the specter of death. In addition to images of the “al-Qaeda” operatives who the White House wants us to believe are the sole targets of its drone campaigns, we would regularly see photos of innocent victims of drone attacks gathered by human rights groups from their relatives and neighbors.
MIT: The Pentagon on the Charles. Representatives from Veterans for Peace, the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and other groups came to MIT on Tuesday, May 6 to call attention to the university’s complicity with lethal applications of drone technology in a demonstration themed “The Pentagon on the Charles.”
Sources: Popular Resistance, TomDispatch, Truthout.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
