The Predators: Where is Your Democracy?
By Kathy Kelly
Extrajudicial killings by U.S. military forces have become the new norm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28057.htm
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The high cost of cheap war
In These Times
by David Sirota
05/06/11
It seems only fitting that in the very month the Terminator sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized artificial intelligence, The Guardian reported on a British Ministry of Defence analysis warning that drone warfare may be creating an 'incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality.' The report s life-imitating-Skynet idea of robots ultimately making combat decisions is certainly scary ? but still a bit fantastical. The more frightening part of the analysis was its look at how roboticized war may already be prompting governments to 'resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously'...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7280/the_high_cost_of_cheap_war/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kathy+Kelly
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Sirota
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Extrajudicial killings by U.S. military forces have become the new norm.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28057.htm
--------
The high cost of cheap war
In These Times
by David Sirota
05/06/11
It seems only fitting that in the very month the Terminator sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized artificial intelligence, The Guardian reported on a British Ministry of Defence analysis warning that drone warfare may be creating an 'incremental and involuntary journey towards a Terminator-like reality.' The report s life-imitating-Skynet idea of robots ultimately making combat decisions is certainly scary ? but still a bit fantastical. The more frightening part of the analysis was its look at how roboticized war may already be prompting governments to 'resort to war as a policy option far sooner than previously'...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7280/the_high_cost_of_cheap_war/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drone
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=extrajudicial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kathy+Kelly
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Sirota
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Starmail - 9. Mai, 22:07
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