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I Confronted Former CIA Director John Brennan. Here’s Why.

On Wednesday November 9th, the World Affairs Council of Houston held a public conversation with John Brennan, former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The conversation was essentially an hour of friendly dialogue between Brennan and Stephen B. Slick, a member of CIA’s clandestine service for 28 years and later as the Director for Read More…

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Trump Admin Set To Expand Number Of Civilians Killed By Drone Strikes

The United States drone program by all objective analysis has not been a precision instrument for killing terrorists. Instead, the program has reversed long-standing policies of basic international human rights and rules of war by implementing pre-emptive killing without due process. After years of Obama’s drone strikes that independent watchdog group Airwars estimated to have Read More…

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Which Trump Trumps? – TLAV Political Roundtable

https://media.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/content.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/Which_Trump_Trumps_.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSFollowing the official inauguration of President Donald Trump, that which many thought would never come to pass, there has been no shortage of the all too expected violent protests and hyperbolic demands; but we must ask ourselves, at what point do Read More…

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Documents Reveal UK Involvement in Secret US Drone Campaign ‘Kill List’

‘These documents are the strongest evidence yet that the U.S. may be conducting its illegal, secret drone war from bases on British soil.’ The British military has been involved in selecting the targets of the United States’ secret drone campaign, new documents obtained by the U.K.-based rights group Reprieve revealed Sunday. According to the documents, personnel Read More…

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US To “Compensate” Family Of Italian Drone Victim — Will Non-Western Victims See Same?

The Obama administration is reportedly offering a “condolence payment” of $1.32 million to the family of Giovanni Lo Porto, the Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan last year, renewing questions about the lack of accountability for the U.S. drone program. According to the Guardian on Friday, the $1.32 million “is the first Read More…

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Possible War Crime: Syrian Maternity Hospital Bombed

‘All such attacks must be investigated and those responsible for serious violations of the laws of war must be brought to justice.’ This story may be updated. A maternity hospital in Syria’s northwestern, rebel-held province of Idlib was bombed on Friday, the U.K.-based charity Save the Children said. The number of casualties is unclear at Read More…