Medea Benjamin on "The Dangerous Seduction of Drones"

Check out Medea Benjamin's article on the slow creep of drone warfare over at Nation of Change

Metadata and you--or maybe someone else

This  piece on Chris Hayes' All In featuring an interview with Jeremy Scahill was the scariest piece on the intersection of drone warfare and metadata that I've seen yet.

Drone warfare--a drabble

Just saw this one over on Rob Kitchin's blog, which I usually read for his thoughtful reviews on crime fiction, rather than his fiction about drone warfare. A drabble is a story of exactly one hundred words. With no further ado, This Isn't a Video Game.

Double Feature

Mother Jones gives us a two for one today. First, we have a Mark Fiore animation about armies of consumer drones that will flock through the sky and more!

And then you can read about zombie drones that will take those armies out...

Gary Patton on the logical consequence of drone warfare

There have been plenty of interesting articles about drones lately, but I haven't had time to comment here. In the meantime, here's a good piece about drones with links to other articles, over on Gary Patton's Two Worlds blog. It's a blog you'll be happy to know about anyway, I think.

The Drone Strike Transparency Bill--a petition

The Just Foreign Policy website has a petition up asking the President and Congress to pass a bill that has already passed through the Senate Intelligence Committee, which would require the Administration to publicly report on civilian deaths from drone strikes.

You can find it HERE.

The "Mult-modal vehicle" has come a long way from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

This just in from Danger Room "The future of military drones isn’t surveillance and dropping bombs. It’s transformation: a single unmanned vehicle that can fly, swim, drive, and even hop like a frog across a variety of terrains and obstacles." The YouTube from Sandia Labs is not to be missed,although it may well freak you out.