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The Assassination Complex

Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

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The Assassination Complex

Von: Jeremy Scahill, The Staff of The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill - introduction, Glenn Greenwald
Gesprochen von: George Newbern
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 “A searing, facts-driven indictment of America’s drone wars and their implications for US democracy and foreign policy. A must-read for concerned citizens” (Library Journal, starred review) from bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept.

Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. But drone strikes often kill people other than the intended target. These deaths, which have included women and children, dwarf the number of actual combatants who have been assassinated by drones. They have generated anger toward the United States among foreign populations and have even become a recruiting tool for jihadists.

The first drone strike outside a declared war zone was conducted more than twelve years ago, but it was not until May 2013 that the White House released a set of standards and procedures for conducting such strikes. However, there was no explanation of the internal process used to determine whether a suspect should be killed without being indicted or tried, even if that suspect is an American citizen. The implicit message of the Obama administration has been: Trust, but don’t verify.

The Assassination Complex reveals stunning details of the government’s secretive drone warfare program based on documents supplied by a confidential source in the intelligence community. These documents make it possible to begin the long-overdue debate about the policy of drone warfare and how it is conducted. The Assassination Complex allows us to understand at last the circumstances under which the US government grants itself the right to sentence individuals to death without the established checks and balances of arrest, trial, and appeal—“readers will be left in no doubt that drone warfare affronts morality and the Constitution” (Kirkus Reviews). Militär Politik & Regierungen
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This book is an eye-opener to the world of covert warfare and extrajudicial killings. Whether you are an American or not, read this book to understand what the US does - not only to terrorists (with whom I have little sympathy in general) - but to the ordinary people of these countries where drone strikes are daily business. Learn about the success-rates of drone-warfare and the vested interests of those begind this machine. Read it to get a glimpse of how surveillance technology has developed from an instrument of war on terrorism to items used by police to spy on their own civillians. One has not to be too creative to see where this whole thing is going! Scare-mongering? Read the book and draw your own conclusions but READ IT YOU DEFINITELY SHOULD!

Excellent (audio)book

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While I'm absolutely opposed to killing and terrorising people randomly with drones flying constantly over the head, I'm a little bit disapppinted by this audiobook. It certainly contains a lot of examples and arguments for how terrible these weapons are, and how morally wrong it is to kill people based on the assumption that they are too dangerous for a particular state (i.e. the USA) without any trial and a lot of potential for errors.

However, I've lacked a clear structure in this book. It seems to jump from here and there, repeats itself from time to time and is over before you know what it is about. Wouldn't recommend this to my friends.

Interesting topic, no recommendations from me

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