Chris Woods, Alice Ross and Jack Serle, Covert Drone War: Tracking CIA drone strikes and other US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 18 February 2011 to the present (18 April 2014). John Pilger: “This [is] extraordinary work on Barack Obama’s lawless use of drones in a campaign of assassination across south Asia. Woods, Ross and Serle stripped away the façade of the secret drone ‘war’, including how it is reported and not reported in the United States: how civilian casualties are covered-up and how rescuers and funerals are targeted.”
Archives for February 2011
February 18, 2011
Covert Drone War: Tracking CIA drone strikes and other US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia
February 18, 2011 Filed Under: War/War crimes Tagged With: cia, data sets on drone strikes in pakistan and yemen and somalia, martha gellhorn prize for journalism
February 14, 2011
The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
Lawrence Wright, The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology. The New Yorker, 14 February 2011. “Proposition 8, the California initiative against gay marriage, passed in November, 2008. Haggis learned from his daughter Lauren of the San Diego chapter’s endorsement of it. He immediately sent [Tommy] Davis [the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology] several e-mails, demanding that the church take a public stand opposing the ban on gay marriage.”
February 14, 2011 Filed Under: Civil Rights, LGBTQ, Religion Tagged With: california proposition 8, church of scientology's policy on 'disconnection', david miscavige, dianetics: the modern science of mental health, l. ron hubbard, tommy davis