Code Pink: Stop the Drones Die-In 11 Nov 2012

As part of their tenth anniversary celebration, Code Pink came to the homes of Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi to protest President Obama’s escalation of the drone war. While claiming that drone attacks are surgical, the administration is hiding the fact that drones kill innocents, including children and wedding parties with alarming frequency. Drone killings only increase fear and hatred of America. Join in the fight to stop the drone [...]

 

disruptive excellence

this video is all there is to this story : it’s all you’ll need 00:00:00 MORE BROADLY, AL QAEDA’S KILLING OF INNOCENTS, MOSTLY MEN, WOM — MOSTLY MUSLIM MEN, AND CHILDREN HAS — TARNISHED ITS IMAGE AROUND WORLD ARE YOU WILLING TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST — WHAT ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WE ARE KILLING WITH DRONES IN PAKISTAN AND YEMEN AND SOMALIA? 00:00:29 I SPEAK OUT ON BEHALF [...]

 

Policy vs. personality in politics

Image: Freedom of choice by Krzysztof Poltorak The New York Times report on president Obama’s kill list put into stark relief something that has been easy to overlook at times over the past few years: the differences between those who prefer a personality-based political environment and those who emphasize policy.1 Those tensions really came to a boil after Chris Hayes discussed the drone program on his show last week. Kevin [...]