Pentagon Capitalism and Silicon Valley: Google’s Drone War Project Shows Big Data’s Military Roots

April 10, 2018

Google — the advertising and search engine monolith that once touted its official commitment, “Don’t be evil” — has thrown its full weight behind the U.S. military-industrial complex’s fast-advancing …

All-Seeing Eye: Google Working with Pentagon on Using AI for Drone Improvement

March 10, 2018

Military

Ubiquitous IT giant Google has silently inked a partnership with the Department of Defense to militarize artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, reinvigorating fears of a Terminator…

Trump’s Drone Kill Rate 80 Times Greater than Under Bush

February 4, 2018

Opinion

During the 2016 election, Donald Trump – quite successfully – managed to convince a sizable portion of the electorate that he would take a much more anti-interventionist stance, in terms of U.S. milit…

U.S. National Defense Strategy of Sowing Global Chaos

January 25, 2018

Opinion

Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States on Friday at the Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a picture of a dangerous world in which U.S. pow…

‘Fighting Season’: Pentagon to Send ‘1,000 New Troops & Drones’ to Afghanistan

January 14, 2018

Military

The Pentagon intends to deploy an estimated 1,000 new combat advisers to Afghanistan as part of the Trump administration’s planned troop surge, according to reports. As early as February, members of a…

The Pentagon’s New Wonder Weapons for World Dominion

September 12, 2017

Opinion

Not quite a century ago, on January 7, 1929, newspaper readers across America were captivated by a brand-new comic strip, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. It offered the country its first images of sp…

Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare

July 17, 2017

Opinion

Required by court order to appear before a judge in Syracuse, New York, on July 12, some out-of-towners had already arrived there when the court granted the prosecution’s last-minute request for more …

2016 Documentary Looks at America’s “National Bird”

May 25, 2017

Media

They see everything, they can kill you with impunity and they may be coming to a battlefield or suburb near you. Filmmaker Sonia Kennebeck, in her debut documentary film, National Bird, examines Ameri…