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ROAR Magazine “State of Control” issue in the mail…

Happy 2017! My essay, “The Drone [Assassination] Assault on Democracy,” appears with several other provocative pieces in issue #4, “State of Control”, of ROAR magazine: This new publication is produced, edited and mailed from the Netherlands. Hoping one day to see the drone assassins standing trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague.   https://roarmag.org/2016/12/06/subscr...

ROAR Magazine “State of Control” issue coming soon…

Very happy to be a contributor to ROAR magazine. My essay, “The Drone Assassination Assault on Democracy,” appears in issue #4, “State of Control”, of this exciting new publication. Check it out, and subscribe if you can: https://roarmag.org/2016/12/06/subscr...

ROAR Magazine “State of Control” issue coming soon…

Very happy to be a contributor to ROAR magazine. My essay, “The Drone Assassination Assault on Democracy,” appears in issue #4, “State of Control”, of this exciting new publication. Check it out, and subscribe if you can: https://roarmag.org/2016/12/06/subscr...

Interview: Brexit/Trump, Neocon/Clinton, Lethal Drones & Free Speech

On Wednesday, November 2, 2016, I had an interesting midday conversation with Sean Sullivan of FMTalkRadio 106.5 in Mobile, Alabama. We discussed: –parallels between the Brexit vote in the UK and the Trump movement in the US; –Hillary Clinton’s disastrous Libya intervention and foreign policy plans for the future; –arguments against the use of lethal […]

BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed. Drone Warfare: From Soldiering to Assassination?

In this 17-minute discussion, BBC Radio 4 host Laurie Taylor interviews Laurie Calhoun and David Galbreath about issues raised in We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age. Topics covered include the dawning of the Drone Age on November 3, 2002; its relation to the terrorist attacks of September 11, […]

Wake Up Call Podcast #113: The Horrible Implications of Drone Warfare

A 42-minute discussion about drone warfare between Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros, moderators and producers of Wake Up Call Podcast (this is episode 113) and Laurie Calhoun, with special attention to moral, political and cultural issues addressed in We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age.  http://www.wakeupcallpodcast.com/?pow...  

Good Kill: A Good Anti-Recruitment Movie

Good Kill (2015), directed by Andrew Niccol, offers a somewhat surprising view of what has come to be known as “modern warfare”, focusing on the plight of the drone operator who spends his work days at Creech Air Force Base “taking pot shots half a world away in an air conditioned cubicle”. Heavily and obviously based […]

Now available in paperback!

We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age is now available in a paperback edition with a new foreword. Also on sale in all formats, ebook, hardcover and paperback at Zed Books: We Kill Because We Can

British Drone Strike Targets in the Light of the Chilcot Report

On July 6, 2016, the Report of the Iraq Inquiry, better known as the Chilcot Report, was finally published after more than six years of work by Chair of the Inquiry, Sir John Chilcot. The aim of the study, which began in 2009 and was initiated by then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was to consider the […]

$100 a day as a retainer fee to serve as an assassin for President Clinton or President Trump?

  The US Air Force has been busy doling out US taxpayer cash, not only for the production of 30 more MQ-9 Reaper (read: death) drones by General Atomics, but also in the hopes of retaining drone operators willing to fly and fire missiles from them. The latest “incentive” being offered to RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) […]