VIDEO - Noam Chomsky - On Film 'American Sniper'
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Drawn to this by the Janet Allon, Greenleft article [HERE]:
" ... most extreme terrorist campaign of modern history, if not ever ― Obama’s global assassination campaign, the drone campaign, which officially is aimed at murdering people who are suspected of maybe someday planning to harm us.”
Chomsky recommends reading some of the transcripts with drone operators, calling them “harrowing” in their dehumanising treatment of people who are targeted."
[Greenleft]
At the end of the video, Chomsky says:
"Obama may recall, when he won the Nobel Prize, he said "Make no mistake, evil does exist in the world," and he's right; he knows exactly where to find it." [Noam Chomsky]
Some strong words from Noam Chomsky.
It's mind-blowing that people around the world are being killed by the US government, without trial and merely on suspicion that they may represent a future 'threat'.
Yet the US drone program -- employing unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), which are remotely controlled by the CIA's Special Activities Division -- barely gets mentioned.
Human Rights Watch reported:
US has carried out at least 400 drone strikes since Obama took office, reportedly killing upwards of 2,600 people, according to independent research groups.
Source - HRW - Mar 2014 - here.
That's over 2,600 in the space of about 5 years.
Seems like 'targeted killings' aren't really precise.
But it's a preferred way of conducting war, precisely because of its remote and 'invisible' nature ... the public at home aren't going to complain, as it doesn't affect them in ways that traditional war does (ie burying the war dead).
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EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 
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