Allegra Harpootlian
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The slippery slope of the US drone war –
Just over a decade ago, US President Barack Obama went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. While accepting the award, he made a moving speech about war and peace. Noting the absurdity of recei... → Read More
How the president became a drone operator
From Obama to Trump, the escalation of drone warfare → Read More
The making of the Executioner-in-Chief: US drone warfare from Obama to Trump –
Trump’s escalating drone war shows just how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret and no one can stop him. → Read More
How the US president became a drone warrior
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump, the shadowy and deadly American drone war overseas has only escalated. → Read More
Droning the World: The Assassination Complex From Bush to Obama to Trump
How the U.S. presidency became a killing machine... We’re only a few days into the new decade and it’s somehow already a bigger dumpster fire than the last. → Read More
How the President Became a Drone Operator – Countercurrents
From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare We’re only a few days into the new decade and it’s somehow already a bigger dumpster fire than the last. On January 2nd, President Trump decided to order what one expert called “the most important decapitation strike America has ever launched.” This one took out not some nameless terrorist in a distant land[Read More...] → Read More
I Write About Endless Wars and I Keep Crying at Work
They’re removed from immediate violence, but the media and public relations employees whose jobs require Google alerts for “drone strikes” are reporting PTSD, depression, and burnout. → Read More
Why I Weep While I Work – Countercurrents
Or What It Means to Experience America’s Wars From a Computer Screen Away Think back to the last time you cried at work. Did the tears come after your boss sent you a curt email? Or when you accidentally cc’d (instead of bcc’d) everyone? Maybe you just had a really, really long day and that one last little misstep pushed[Read More...] → Read More
What It Means to Experience US Wars From a Computer Screen Away
I’ll continue to make sure the stories of the victims of the U.S.’s seemingly endless wars are told. → Read More
The antiwar movement no one can see
What if there’s an antiwar movement growing right under our noses and we just haven't noticed? → Read More
The New Anti-War Movement
A younger generation skeptical of the US military is moving beyond street protests and into the halls of power. → Read More
The Antiwar Movement No One Can See – Countercurrents
When Donald Trump entered the Oval Office in January 2017, Americans took to the streets all across the country to protest their instantly endangered rights. Conspicuously absent from the newfound civic engagement, despite more than a decade and a half of this country’s fruitless, destructive wars across the Greater Middle East and northern Africa, was antiwar sentiment, much less an[Read… → Read More
An American antiwar movement no one can see
Will it put a crimp in the war on terror? → Read More
The New Face of American War Is a Robot
Artificial intelligence makes it easier for us to think of war in the abstract—and makes it harder to stop fighting. → Read More
The End of War Is Just a Beginning
Here’s a question worth asking about America's seemingly endless global conflicts: if you kill somebody and there’s no one there (on our side anyway), is the United States still at war? That may prove to be the truly salient question when it comes to the future of America’s war on terror, which is now almost 18 years old and encompasses significant parts of the Greater Middle → Read More
Trump Doesn't Want to End US Wars. He Wants to Hide Them.
If you kill somebody and there’s no one there (on our side anyway), is the United States still at war? → Read More
School shooters and drones: Gun violence at home and abroad
Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad → Read More
School Shooters and Drones: Linking Gun Violence at Home to America’s Wars Abroad – Countercurrents
In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked “like a war zone.” And to many young Americans, that’s exactly what it felt like. But this shooting was different. Refusing to be victims, Parkland survivors disrupted the “thoughts and[Read More...] → Read More
Gun Control Activists Should Also Take on America’s Drone Wars
Through its endless wars, Washington has been the true school shooter on this planet, terrorizing the global classroom with a remarkable lack of consequences. → Read More
The School Shooters of the Planet
Linking gun violence at home to America’s wars abroad.. In the wake of the February 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 students and staff members, a teacher said the school looked “like a war zone.” And to many young Americans, that’s exactly what it felt like. But this shooting was different. → Read More