Results for Peace and Nonviolence
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DRONE WATCH: Drone Summary for June
Originally Posted: 07/03/2012 - 10:51am | Type: Blog -
A summary of U.S. drone strikes in June from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. One of the most respected sources of investigative reporting on drones is The Bureau of Invest ...
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DRONE WATCH: Anti-drone Protests Growing
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 3:01pm | Type: Blog -
Fifteen protestors arrested at Air National Guard base near Syracuse NY. As killing by drone continues, anti-drone groups organizing protests against the policy are growing. Last ...
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DRONE WATCH: Sunday Drone Attack Kills Eight
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 3:16pm | Type: Blog -
Drone attack on a house in Pakistan kills 8 suspected militants. The Associated Press reports U.S. missiles fired from a drone in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afgha ...
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Jimmy Carter Tries to Pull the Log from America’s Eye
Originally Posted: 06/29/2012 - 4:49pm | Type: Blog -
Carter’s confessions to foreign leaders are not merely symbolic — as though he must search for a token American violation in order to get a foot in the door with those who perpetrate the really bad things. Des ...
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Tensions Mount on Turkey-Syria Border
Originally Posted: 06/28/2012 - 11:26am | Type: Blog -
Turkey said it was stationing antiaircraft batteries on the common border following the downing of one of its warplanes. The New York Times reports: "As diplomat ...
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Ahmadi Muslim Leader Pushes Plight in Congress
Originally Posted: 06/27/2012 - 4:51pm | Type: Blog -
WASHINGTON — The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is persecuted around the world, but it has plenty of friends on Capitol Hill. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined more than 20 House colleagues and at least one senator on June 27 a ...
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DRONE WATCH: NGO Appeals For Drone Stop
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 12:30pm | Type: Blog -
Pakistan NGO appeals for stop to drone strikes so vaccinations can continue. The Pakistani newspaper DAWN reported this morning that the National Research and Development Foun ...
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Nursing Trauma: How One Church is Going After Chicago’s Violence Epidemic
Originally Posted: 06/27/2012 - 11:52am | Type: Blog -
about Matthew 26:52) and if you want to stop the cycle you have to insert someone into the cycle ...
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Toward an Evangelical Peace Movement
Originally Posted: 06/27/2012 - 10:23am | Type: Blog -
Given the historical record, it may seem the deck is stacked against American evangelicals organizing into a comprehensive peace movement — yet that’s exactly what’s happening. Bi ...
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DRONE WATCH: Taliban Ban Polio Vaccinations Over Drones
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:36pm | Type: Blog -
Taliban leader bans polio vaccinations, claiming health workers spy for the CIA. According to Guardian , a third Taliban leader has banned polio vaccinations in the area he ...
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DRONE WATCH: For Many Pakistanis, 'USA' Means 'Drones'
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:56pm | Type: Blog -
Pakistani attorney raises awareness of drone strikes through lawsuits on behalf of victims. In 2010, Shahzad Akbar, an attorney and founder of the Pakistani Foundation for Fundame ...
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Tensions Between Turkey and Syria Grow
Originally Posted: 06/26/2012 - 11:13am | Type: Blog -
The Economist reports on the growing tensions in the Middle East following the shooting down of a Turkish plane by Syrian forces. The Economist reports on the growing tens ...
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DRONE WATCH: Congress Keeps Closer Watch on CIA Drone Strikes
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:37pm | Type: Blog -
Congress is paying more attention to oversight of drone strikes. In what appears to be a step in the right direction, Congress is paying more attention to drone strikes. From ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drone Flights Over Caribbean
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:55pm | Type: Blog -
U.S. plans to expand drone flights into the Caribbean to fight drug smuggling. The Los Angeles Times reports: "After quietly testing Predator drones over the Baham ...
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DRONE WATCH: Abandoning Human Rights
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:55pm | Type: Blog -
Former President Jimmy Carter writes that U.S. is abandoning human rights. Former President Jimmy Carter writes in the New York Times this morning of how far the U.S. has ...
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DRONE WATCH: Administration Refuses Drone Documents
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:37pm | Type: Blog -
The Obama administration refused to produce documents related to the drone program,claiming the information is classified. The Obama administration filed its response to a Freedom ...
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DRONE WATCH: Are Drone Strikes War Crimes?
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:38pm | Type: Blog -
U.N. investigator says drone strikes threaten international law. Several days after urging the U.S. to clarify its policies to ensure that targeted drone killings comply with inte ...
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DRONE WATCH: Shadow Wars
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:44pm | Type: Blog -
A series of recent news stories, largely based on anonymous sources, reveals an emerging new U.S. military strategy. After more than 10 years of long, bloody ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Obama admi ...
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Aung Sun Suu Kyi and Rodney King
Originally Posted: 06/21/2012 - 12:39pm | Type: Blog -
Both of these individuals are important because of their choices for peace. In 1991, Rodney King was stopped and beaten by a group of Los Angeles police officers. The stop was not ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drones in Court
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:44pm | Type: Blog -
Administration must respond today to Freedom of Information request on drones. Several years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request ...
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DRONE WATCH: It’s Not Just The U.S.
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:55pm | Type: Blog -
The U.K. has been using Reaper drones in Afghanistan for the past four years. More than four years ago, the U.K. Ministry of Defence bought 6 Reaper drones from the U.S. The ...
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DRONE WATCH: U.N. Investigator Asks U.S. to Justify Drone Policy
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:45pm | Type: Blog -
The U.S. should clarify the basis under international law of its drone policy. Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, urged Was ...
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DRONE WATCH: New Weapons of Shadow Wars
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:45pm | Type: Blog -
Military strategy is changing to drones and cyberwar. U.S. military strategy is changing. From Associated Press : "After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and ...
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Religious Violence In Nigeria Continues: 52 Dead In Latest Attacks
Originally Posted: 06/18/2012 - 10:55am | Type: Blog -
52 dead in Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria. Agence France-Presse report on the lastest incidents of Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria: "The streets of Ni ...
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DRONE WATCH: We Cannot Kill Our Way to Victory
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:45pm | Type: Blog -
Killing more people with drones will not resolve the threat of terrorism. Vietnam vet and author Terry McDermott sees parallels between the B-52 bombings of Cambodia and the d ...
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DRONE WATCH: U.S. Declassifies Counter-terror Military Campaigns
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:56pm | Type: Blog -
U.S. formally acknowledges "direct action," i.e. drones, being used in Yemen and Somalia. The Associated Press reports: "The White House’s semiannual re ...
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DRONE WATCH: That’s Not a UFO, It’s a Drone.
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:45pm | Type: Blog -
Drivers who saw drone being transported thought it was a UFO. Wednesday evening, a saucer-shaped object was spotted on a flatbed truck being transported on the Capital Beltway ...
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DRONE WATCH: U.S. Drone Kills Three in Pakistan
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:46pm | Type: Blog -
In the second attack in two days, a U.S. drone strike killed at least three people early today. In the second attack in two days, AFP reports that a U.S. drone strike killed a ...
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DRONE WATCH: How Drones Help Al Qaeda
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:46pm | Type: Blog -
Civilian casualties in Yemen are creating recruitment opportunities for terrorist groups. Ibrahim Mothana, an activist, writer and community worker from Yemen, writes that the ...
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DRONE WATCH: World Opinion Opposes Drones
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:47pm | Type: Blog -
A Pew Research Center global survey finds worldwide opposition to U.S. drone strike. According to a new Pew Research Center global survey : "The Obama administratio ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drones on the Hill
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:47pm | Type: Blog -
Members of Congress are raising concerns about drone use. Twenty-six Members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama yesterday demanding the White House’s legal justifica ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drone Debate, Continue or Stop?
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:47pm | Type: Blog -
USA Today editorially supports drone strikes, ACLU argues the program should stop. After running an editorial, USA Today often follows it with an opposing view on the topic. I ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drones Strike Yemen and Pakistan
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:47pm | Type: Blog -
Drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan After more than a week with no reported drone strikes, there are news reports this morning of strikes in Yemen and Pakistan. Over the past ...
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Creflo Dollar: Police Release Daughter's 911 Tapes Reporting Assault by Father
Originally Posted: 06/13/2012 - 8:01am | Type: Blog -
According to CNN: ATLANTA, Ga. – With a calm voice and collected manner about her, a 15-year-old girl called Fayette County 911 to report that her father assaulted her. The call led police to the suburban Atlanta home of megachurch pastor C ...
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DRONE WATCH: Why Drone Attacks are Illegal
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:48pm | Type: Blog -
Is killing by drone legal? Five reasons why they're not. Bill Quigley, a human rights lawyer and professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, asks: &quo ...
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US, Pakistan Fail to Agree on Afghanistan Supply Routes
Originally Posted: 06/11/2012 - 3:33pm | Type: Blog -
American negotiators working with Pakistan to reopen critical supply routes into Afghanistan have been called back to the United States Carlo Munoz reports for The Hill: ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drone War Needs Accountability
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:48pm | Type: Blog -
Cynthia Tucker, a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary,writes on the lack of accountability in the drone war. Cynth ...
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DRONE WATCH: The Switchblade is Coming
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:48pm | Type: Blog -
The next generation of drones is 2-feet long, weighs 6 pounds, and can be carried in a soldier's backpack. It’s 2 feet long, weighs only 6 pounds, and can fit into a soldier’ ...
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The Death of Darius Simmons and the Seeds of New Life
Originally Posted: 06/11/2012 - 12:05pm | Type: Blog -
Before we lay the cross of our nation’s racism upon Darius' shoulders, we should remember just how small they are. Before we look at the abundance of #WeAreDarius and 6 p.m. news sound bites, we should re ...
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Elie Wiesel on Syria: Charge Bashar al-Assad with Crimes Against Humanity
Originally Posted: 06/08/2012 - 2:12pm | Type: Blog -
Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel offers his thought on the Syrian crisis in The Washington Post : Syria’s story is now both tragedy and scandal. Day after day, its police and army humiliate, frighten and kill score ...
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DRONE WATCH: Unleashing the CIA
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:49pm | Type: Blog -
As US-Pakistan relations deteriorate, the CIA gets a green light for more drone attacks. As relations between the U.S. and Pakistan continue to deteriorate, the Obama administra ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drones at Home
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:49pm | Type: Blog -
Domestic use of drones needs more transparency and accountability. As the use of drones for surveillance and other activities in the U.S. increases, Leslie Harris, president and C ...
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DRONE WATCH: Losing Intelligence
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
A kill rather than capture policy risks losing potentially valuable intelligence information. In addition to legal and moral concerns about targeted drone killings, a new questi ...
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DRONE WATCH: Compliance with International Law
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
UN High Comissioner for Human Rights questions whether drone attacks comply with international law. Following a four-day visit to Pakistan, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights N ...
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DRONE WATCH: Can Al-Qaeda Survive Drone Strikes?
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
Can the Al Qaeda movement can survive the continued attrition of its leaders by targeted drone strikes. In the wake of the death of Al Qaeda’s #2 leader Monday, BBC Security Corr ...
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DRONE WATCH: Playing God in Pakistan
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:50pm | Type: Blog -
This morning's editorial in The Guardian takes on drone attack policy. One of the U.K.’s leading newspapers, The Guardian, takes on President Obama’s drone policy in an ...
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DRONE WATCH: Former CIA Official Warns of Terrorist Safe Havens
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:51pm | Type: Blog -
Former CIA counter-terrorism head warns of the "seduction" of drones. Robert Grenier was CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 9/11. He then played a key role in ...
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DRONE WATCH: Drone Attacks Will Continue
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:51pm | Type: Blog -
Secretary of Defense says drone attacks will continue. Yesterday, the government of Pakistan once again expressed its opposition to U.S. drone attacks on its territory as bein ...
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DRONE WATCH: Pakistan Protests Drone Strikes
Originally Posted: 07/02/2012 - 1:51pm | Type: Blog -
The government of Pakistan protests drone strikes, US confirms Al Qaeda top leader killed. Following three U.S. drone strikes in the past three days, the government of Pakistan ...
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Protecting Children From Gun Violence
Originally Posted: 06/05/2012 - 12:13pm | Type: Blog -
Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund remind us in Protect Children Not Guns 2012 that 5,740 children and teens were killed by guns in 2008 and 2009. The e-ma ...
