Laurie Calhoun's Blog, page 9
March 18, 2018
National Bird: A Cautionary Tale
National Bird, a film directed by Sonia Kennebeck, received much less attention than Eye in the Sky, though both had US releases in 2016. One reason for this is that Eye in the Sky paints drone warfare as a positive development in human history, and its perpetrators as somehow noble, despite the risk of killing … Continue reading National Bird: A Cautionary Tale →
February 23, 2018
Interview on Brave New World
John Harrison recently interviewed Laurie Calhoun on the radio program “Brave New World” about her new book, You Can Leave: a novel. Topics discussed include the potential dangers of new technologies for dissidents and how mass surveillance and covert targeting practices used in the drone program could be commandeered by bad actors. https://video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/2018... … Continue reading Interview on Brave New World →
February 13, 2018
You Can Leave ebook now available
“You Can Leave is a work of metafiction. Any resemblance of fictional characters to persons in reality may or may not be coincidental…” When is a suicide not a suicide? You Can Leave, a novel by Laurie Calhoun, portrays a dark, disturbing, dystopic world where dissenters are permanently silenced whenever perceived of as threats … Continue reading You Can Leave ebook now available →
January 30, 2018
December 18, 2017
Free Preview of We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age
This 56-page Google Books preview includes the new foreword to the 2016 paperback edition: https://books.google.com/books/about/... Advertisements
November 21, 2017
War and Delusion on sale now–all formats 50% off!
There is a big 50% off sale going on at Palgrave Macmillan, including all formats–hardcover, softcover and ebook–of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781... Advertisements
October 31, 2017
Peoples Internet Radio: US Kills Because it Can
In this 50-minute interview, April Watters asks Laurie Calhoun to explain what she means by “The Drone Assassination Assault on Democracy”: The discussion focuses on issues raised in We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, but also an essay published in ROAR magazine, which can be read […]
October 6, 2017
Who. What. Why. America’s Culture of Killing: It Doesn’t Begin at Home
In this 31-minute interview, host Jeff Schechtman asks guest Laurie Calhoun to explain what she sees to be the connection between mass killings in the homeland (such as occurred in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017) and US foreign policy. Both the audio and a full transcript are available here. Advertisements
October 5, 2017
Level Talk. Ominous Development of the US Drone Program
In this 27-minute interview on Sputnik Radio International, host John Harrison, author Laurie Calhoun, and peace campaigner Russell Whiting discuss the recently proposed changes to the US drone program, including the request by the CIA to be given strike autonomy in Afghanistan, and modifications to the Obama administration’s Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) in the forthcoming […]
October 3, 2017
Made in France: A Look at the Etiology of Radical Jihadists in the West
Made in France, a fictional film directed by Nicolas Boukhrie, attempts to illuminate a very real problem: the rise of jihadism in the West. The film was apparently finished in 2014, but its release was repeatedly postponed because of a series of terrorist attacks in France. First available from on-demand television, Made in France made […]
