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Slate has a piece up on how more than 400 drones "costing millions of dollars each"  have crashed since 2001. My title comes from the kinds of places Slate says they have crashed into. Read all about it HERE

Drone wars at Tom Dispatch

Here's a piece that just went up on Tom Dispatch by Pratap Chatterjee called "The True Costs of Remote Control War". It follows a few paragraphs by Nick Turse on the NSA. The article focuses in particular on the long term effect of being a remote control drone pilot. 

PTSD, Drone style

I've been a bit remiss about posting here lately, though it's not for want of material. However, I just read this short piece by Vivian Salama at The Investigative Fund,  which succinctly captures the reasons for my own animus towards this form of warfare. The situation in Yemen sounds like a form of psychological torture for many innocent civilians.

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...