Military Drones

Activists Confront 2020 Candidates in Iowa About Drones and War

July 31, 2019 UNAC Editor Drone Warfare, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars

by Nick Mottern, published on Truthout, July 26, 2019 In late July, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the U.S.’s foremost killer drone, will enter the Iowa presidential primary contest in a cable TV ad that challenges 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to end all U.S. drone attacks, close U.S. drone bases and work for a global ban on weaponized 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[…]