Autonomous Drones

Worker pressure forces Google to end Pentagon contract

June 12, 2018 UNAC Editor Corporatism, Labor Struggles

by Sven Ferrari, originally published on Workers World, June 4, 2018 Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made an internal announcement on June 1 stating — as reported by Gizmodo, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal — that the company would not be renewing its contract with the Pentagon in 2019 for its work on the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional[…]

Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Corporatism

by Andre Damon, originally published on the World Socialist Website, May 19, 2018 The publication of this week’s open letter by leading academics protesting Google’s role in the military’s drone assassination program exposes the close partnership between the major technology giants and the US military/intelligence complex. The letter, now signed by nearly 1,000 academics, declares that “Google has moved into[…]

Time to Call Anew for Disarming Drones

January 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars

Delegates to the 1899 Hague Convention got it right on aerial bombardment. by Nick Mottern, originally published on Know Drones Those of us who have been advocating for an end to drone attacks and the disarming of drones have “ancestors” in those who, in 1899, persuaded The Hague Convention to adopt a five-year ban on dropping bombs from hot air[…]