Lisa Ling is a whistleblowers on the US drone programme: ‘The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth’. She comments on the extradition trial of Julian Assange about to begin and on ‘hostile non-state actors’.
Read MoreWeaponised drones with cameras remove two restraints that have been part of armed conflict since bow and arrow. One is that the person shooting is no longer in danger of being hit. Two; the commander in chief, like the US President, does not have to worry about battlefield casualties and all the negative press that goes with that.
Drone warefare removed checks and balances from armed conflict. I wonder with what we replaced them with. Interview with drone whistleblower Lisa Ling.
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