Elaina Ramsey A tragic look at some of the U.S. mass shootings since Columbine. Have guns become an American ...

James E. Atwood The U.S. should repent of seeing guns as sacred; sane laws would be a start. BACK IN 1990, th ...

Administration developing rules for drone strikes. The New York Times reports that before the election, the Obama administration was working to develop rules and procedu ...

It’s an idea that feels particularly poignant this Thanksgiving: American Jews and Muslims banding together to help the homeless and other needy people. WASHINGTON — It’s an idea ...

An Awake to Drones blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago. An Awake to Drones  blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago  to begin a conversation ...

Brian Terrell is spending the time before entering prison for protesting drones in educating about them. Brian Terrell, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, will begin a ...

Soldier suicides have reached epidemic numbers. As the AP reports, More soldiers are taking their own lives than are falling in battle. Add on top of that, the many who suffer from PTSD, and who as a result fi ...

Christianity Today reports: As violence flares anew between Hamas and Israel, which is preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas rocket attacks reaching as far as Tel Aviv, CT checked in with Jerusalem-based reconciliat ...

If I were inclined to give mathematical value to people based on the media coverage I watched on “Fox & Friends” this morning, I would come to this conclusion: 3 Israelis > 15 Palestinians ...

Intelligence agencies should turn from counter-terrorism to intelligence gathering. Noah Shachtman points out in Wired’s Danger Room that since 9/11, U.S. intelligence age ...

With David Petraeus’ sudden departure, there are growing calls for a real debate on the role of drones. Several weeks ago, the  Washington Post  reported  that the CIA was p ...

Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas commander, military operation continues. There are multiple news reports that an Israeli air strike has killed senior Hamas military commander ...

Pakistan is close to manufacturing drones. As it continues to condemn U.S. drone attacks, it appears that Pakistan is close to manufacturing its own drones. The Guardian repor ...

Former secretaries of state question drones. Alexis Simendinger at RealClearPolitics reports on an appearance by former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albrigh ...

Drone news of the week. • After the story broke on CNN , the Defense Department announced Thursday  that on Nov.1, two Iranian fighter jets fired at a U.S. surveillance dron ...

Does the rise of non-state terrorism change the nature of war? Tom Roberts in the National Catholic Reporter , writes on questions raised by the rapidly growing use of unpi ...

Eisenhower's warning of the spiritual effects of permanent preparations for war. Most of us have read President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell speech warning of the growin ...

Washington Post editorial urges greater transparency and accountability with drones. In an editorial this morning, the Washington Post sums up the legal and political problems ...

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The need for a standard on the use of drones. Kurt Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO from July 2008 to May 2009, wrote in the Washington Post on the risks associated with the in ...

Dronne strike in Yemen near Saudi border kills four. Reuters reports on a rare drone strike in northern Yemen, near the Saudi border. “At least four men suspected of bein ...

An in-depth look at U.S. counterterrorism policies, including targeted killings by drones. This week, the Washington Post published a major three-part series, written by three ...

Drones in the news this week. In drone news this week: • The Washington Post reported  that Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, and  ...

and that Corkins is due in court Friday (Oct. 26)  for a status hearing. "The terrorism indictment ...

Drone attack in Pakistan kills five, injures children. DAWN reports a drone attack Wednesday in the North Waziristan region. “At least five people were killed Wednesday w ...

Drone strike kills four in Yemen on Sunday. The second drone strike in four days killed four in Yemen. AFP reports Four members of the Al-Qaeda extremist network includ ...

France sending drones to Africa. As Al-Qaeda-linked rebels strengthen their control over northern Mali, France has taken the lead in plans for possible military intervention. In a ...

The UK is sending five additional drones to Afghanistan. The U.K. has had five Reaper drones, which it has used for combat and surveillance missions against insurgents in Afghanis ...

Former Senator George McGovern died early Sunday morning. Former Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern died early Sunday morning at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D. He ...

The CIA is urging the White House to expand its fleet of drones. The Washington Post reports this morning that the CIA wants more drones .  “The CIA is urging the Whit ...

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by Taliban, is recovering in Britain. Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl who was shot by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for her activism, is ...

Israel shoots down drone flown by Hezbollah. Nearly two weeks ago, Israeli jets shot down a drone  that had crossed into its airspace. For several days, there was speculation t ...

Opposition to drone strikes is growing in Yemen. Christopher Swift, adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University, traveled to Yemen this summer to inter ...

Nine killed by drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone attack early Thursday morning killed nine suspected militants. Reuters reports : "Nine suspected al Qaeda militants ...

While observing the various sites within the DMZ, I thought about how the pacifist Quakers, who founded my school in 1885, would have reacted to such an experience. Recently, I ha ...

Notre Dame law professor fights against drone strikes. Notre Dame law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has been fighting ...

Drone strikes resume in Pakistan, more than 20 people killed. Last weekend, the government of Pakistan prevented an anti-drone protest from entering the tribal regions. Led by for ...

14-year old activist shot by Taliban in Pakistan. One thing that characterized Afghanistan under Taliban rule before 2001 was their treatment of women and girls. From a society of ...

Former Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to no fewer than 30 years in prison, and up to 60 years. Former Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky has be ...

Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill and former President Ronald Reagan shared a commitment to find common ground. Thomas P. O’Neill III, son of Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, former Spe ...

Roundup of drone news from the week. • During the week, reported drone strikes killed 3 in Pakistan  on Monday and 5 in Yemen  on Thursday.  • A group of U.S. activists i ...

As an antidote to all the stories of killing by drone, I’ve been collecting stories of the good things unpiloted aircraft can potentially do, or are already doing. Many are tasks now being carried out by pilot ...

Julienne Gage Faith communities work to stem the flow of guns to criminals. ON A WARM evening this June, a gr ...

Jim Rice We'll never reach reconciliation between Christians and Muslims until we address root causes—and take on the haters. ...

U.S. is preparing for potential action against militants in Libya. The New York Times is reporting this afternoon that secret “target packages” are being prepared by the U ...

U.S. plans to refurbish nuclear weapons complex sparks new movement. Ken Butigan writes on Waging Nonviolence about the emergence of a new anti-nuclear weapons movement.  The ...

President of Yemen personally approves all U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. In a speech last week at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Yemen’s president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ...

Weaponized drones are demons: evil spirits of the air, specters in the heavens, shadowy presences. “John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, an ...

New study on U.S. use of drones in Pakistan. Researchers at Stanford University and New York University law schools released a major study on the U.S. use of drones in Pakistan, c ...