Month: May 2015
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Goodkill… Or Not
Memorial Day seems a fitting time to review the movie “Goodkill,” now playing at the Magic Theater in Nevada City. The movie, based on actual events, portrays a morally-conflicted and psychologically-tormented operator of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”), played by Ethan Hawke. Even though the plot includes some obvious Hollywood enhancements, it presents some…
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From Beale to Baltimore: No Justice, No Peace
On Tuesday sixteen of us were arrested as we demonstrated against drone warfare at Beale Air Force Base, where pilots at computer stations guide Global Hawk Drones in identifying targets for Predator and Reaper “killer drones.” Advanced robotic long distance killing machines are not only cruel, unethical, and illegal; they are a waste of the…