Who else is excited to have your workplace performance monitored by drones? I know I am shocked to see technological advancement embraced by employers to control workers!
Tag: drones
Will it take a plane crash that kills 200 people to lead to a crackdown against privately owned drones? Or are drones the new gun, with their use “personal freedom” no matter what the cost
Couple of thoughts about Rand Paul’s marathon filibuster. First, it should go without saying that Rand Paul is not on the side of progressives for any reason. Even on drones and extrajudicial ki
Tom Tomorrow updates Schoolhouse Rock for Obama’s extrajudicial targeted assassination era.
Like Ta-Nehisi Coates and others, I am pretty disgusted that the Obama Administration has defined any male of military age killed by a drone bombing to be a combatant. This is morally bankrupt and is
Some additional thoughts on the Holder speech: 1. I’m generally in agreement with Adam/Marcy/Scott/ et al regarding the question of due process and judicial oversight in the targeting process To
Juan Cole: Well, I hate those US drones when used for purposes of warfare. But here is a Gandhian use for them. Let us defy the Syrian regime’s misuse of its sovereignty to murder its own citizens by using drones for supply airdrops.The US military was thinking already in 2009 of using drones to resupply […]
Last week I blogged heads with Sam Roggeveen of the Lowy Institute: Tragically, we failed to have a forward looking conversation about a post-Kim Jong Il North Korea. However, last year’s Patter
Last night I was on Alyona, talking drones and Iran:
My column this week at WPR thinks through the politics and precedents of Predators: Arms races don’t just “happen” because of outside technological developments. Rather, they are embedded in political dynamics associated with public perception, international prestige and bureaucratic conflict. China and Russia pursued the development of drones before the United States showed the world what […]
So I’m having trouble reconciling this Ben Wittes: Finally, Spencer might be suggesting that the government should at least be accountable to the public for such a targeting–that is, that thes
I lack strong opinions about the Al-Awlaki hit, but here are some links: Glenn is in good form. Spencer lays out the politico-military considerations. Robert Chesney on the pro-assassination side. Thi