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Barbara ehrenreich activist extraordinaire medea benjamin has documented how the us governments use of drones to murder hundreds of innocent civilians in afghanistan, pakistan, somalia, and yemen has increased the danger to our national security. Benjamin has been a vocal, disruptive, and often theatrical critic of the obama administrations utilization of drones in its counterterrorism strategy. Sep 08, 2016 medea benjamin is one of americas bestknown 21stcentury activists. Our guest is author and cofounder of codepink, medea benjamin. Apr 09, 20 in this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, medea benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another hightech military trinket. Drone warfare is a highly informative book, especially for those who are newcomers to the issue, and it details the dangers of the unmanned arms race. Drone warfare book austin public library bibliocommons. While benjamins analysis can occasionally be sloppy in structure, prone to hyperbolic language, and suffer from poor editing, she backs up her analysis with a plethora of evidence. Now, with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric pace, benjamin has written this book as a call to action. Medea benjamin is one of americas bestknown 21stcentury activists. And with the rise of drone warfare that poses no risk to americans, they arent about to spend time covering blownup foreigners, especially when theres something important like a celebrity breakup to report. She is the author of drone warfare or books, 2012 and has played an active role in the green party. I have seen here grilled on thom hartmanns the big picture, the best, most in depth political show on television in my opinion that delves into politics and much more including drone warfare and climate change. Apr 11, 20 our guest is author and cofounder of codepink, medea benjamin.
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However, the strength of the book stands also in the fact that it does not make an appeal only to the readers sensibility but with its wide set of figures, arguments and examples to his moral sense and rationality, too. Thankfully, longtime us peace activist, medea benjamin, has written the very thing. Drone warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growingand most secretivefronts in global conflict. In 2000, the pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones. Drone warfare is a comprehensive look at the growing menace of robotic warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who pilots these unmanned planes, who the victims are, and what the legal and moral implications are. September 10, 1952 is an american political activist who cofounded code pink and, along with activist and author kevin danaher, the fair trade advocacy group global exchange. A recent article in the new york times, entitled a day job waiting for a kill shot a word away chronicles some of the psychological disturbances facing drone pilots, as they routinely confront an enemy across the world from the safety of a computer. Barbara ehrenreich a compelling mix of humanity and factual data.
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