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===== Russia has been working on creating drones that ‘call home’, go undercover and start fires. Here’s how they work =====
===== Russia has been working on creating drones that ‘call home’, go undercover and start fires. Here’s how they work =====
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[https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15]
[https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home by ACLU 9/4/15]
  All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.
  All across the country, heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.
=====Master of American Propaganda=====
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/the-great-war-master-of-american-propaganda/ by Nicholas J. Cull PBS]
In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into the Great War, a man named George Creel wrote a letter to President Woodrow Wilson. Creel was a journalist who had dabbled in politics, most notably as the Commissioner of Police in Denver, where he earned national attention for his efforts to clamp down on police brutality and prostitution. He thought highly of Wilson. In 1912, Creel had campaigned for the future president in Colorado; in 1916, he’d written a book supporting his re-election.
=====Explosive investigative report says U.S. government misled public on war in Afghanistan=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/explosive-investigative-report-says-u-s-government-misled-public-on-war-in-afghanistan by PBS NEWS 9/12/19]
In a blockbuster story representing the culmination of several years of investigation and pursuit of government documents, The Washington Post reports that U.S. officials have been misleading the American public about the war in Afghanistan for the past 18 years.
=====50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/50-year-war-on-drugs-imprisoned-millions-of-black-americans by Aaron Morrison 26/7/21 PBS NEWS]
As a teenager, Alton Lucas believed basketball or music would pluck him out of North Carolina and take him around the world. In the late 1980s, he was the right-hand man to his musical best friend, Youtha Anthony Fowler, who many hip hop and R&B heads know as DJ Nabs.
=====Watch the Civil War=====
[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-civil-war by PBS]
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. 2% of the general population died in the war and it changed forever the lives of all who lived through it.
=====Evidence points to war crimes by Libyan National Army forces=====
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2017/03/evidence-points-to-war-crimes-by-libyan-national-army-forces/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 23/3/17]
Shocking video evidence has emerged showing fighters from the Libyan National Army (LNA) carrying out execution-style killings of captured fighters from the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR) in the Ganfouda area of Benghazi, said Amnesty International. The two separate incidents may amount to war crimes, adding to the long list of crimes under international law that have been committed with impunity by armed groups and militias in both Western and Eastern Libya.
=====The Excessive Militarization of American Policing=====
[https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf by ACLU]
Across the country, heavily armed Special Weapons
and Tactics (SWAT) teams are forcing their way into
people’s homes in the middle of the night, often deploying
explosive devices such as flashbang grenades to temporarily
blind and deafen residents, simply to serve a search warrant
on the suspicion that someone may be in possession of
a small amount of drugs.
=====Schools and Education During Reconstruction=====
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/reconstruction-schools-and-education-during-reconstruction/ by PBS]
Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming right out of slavery. But one of the things that it critically involved was access to education. Most of the Southern states, before the Civil War, made it illegal to teach a slave to read and write. Now, some African Americans did learn to read and write secretly.
=====Is Obama’s War in Afghanistan Just?=====
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/is-obamas-war-in-afghanistan-just/ by Michael Walzer 3/12/09 DISSENT]
WELL, IT was a just war in the beginning, and it is worth remembering why. It wasn’t because the Taliban regime was “harboring” al Qaeda, as President Obama said on Tuesday night. Lots of countries harbor terrorists, and we are not going to war (and should not) with all of them. Afghanistan was different: the Taliban and al Qaeda were full partners, and because of that partnership, al Qaeda enjoyed all the benefits of sovereignty—most important, a territorial base. A military attack aimed at eliminating that base, and its political basis, was therefore justified.
=====Report: The War on Marijuana in Black and White=====
[https://www.aclu.org/publications/report-war-marijuana-black-and-white by ACLU 3/6/13]
Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests
=====Watch The Vietnam War | Full Documentary=====
[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-vietnam-war by PBS Shows 1858-1961]
After a long and brutal war, Vietnamese revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end nearly a century of French colonial occupation. With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.
=====The FBI’s War on Black America=====
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/fbi-war-on-black-america/ by ZINN EDUCATION PRPOJECT]
The FBI’s War on Black America offers a thought provoking look at a government-sanctioned conspiracy, the FBI’s counter intelligence program known as COINTELPRO. This documentary establishes historical perspective on the measures initiated by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI which aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
=====Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians by The Guardian]
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal.
=====Cambodia: Abusive “war on drugs”, rife with torture and corruption, must be overhauled=====
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/cambodia-abusive-war-drugs-torture-corruption-must-overhauled/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 13/5/20]
The Cambodian government’s three-year long “war on drugs” campaign has fuelled a rising tide of human rights abuses, dangerously overfilled detention facilities and led to an alarming public health situation – even more so as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds – while failing in its stated objective of curbing drug use, a new investigative report by Amnesty International published today reveals.
=====What Do Americans Think About War?=====
[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-americans-are-unlikely-to-support-a-war-in-ukraine/ by Monica Potts 3/3/22 FiveThirtyEight]
Merely a week after Sept. 11, then-president George W. Bush signed a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of force against those responsible, and the U.S. and British, with international support, began bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces Oct. 7. The American public almost universally approved this rush to war: A Gallup poll conducted soon after found that 90 percent supported the war and only 5 percent opposed it.
=====Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests=====
[https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/07/russia-criminalizes-independent-war-reporting-anti-war-protests by  HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 7/3/22]
Update (March 23, 2022): In the three days after the law’s adoption on March 4, Russian authorities opened at least 60 cases on the administrative offense of “discrediting Russian armed forces,” the vast majority against peaceful anti-war protesters. By March 23, at least six criminal cases had been opened for “false information” about Russian armed forces’ actions, at least three of which involved aggravated charges. Reports in the media estimate that at least 150 journalists fled Russia within two weeks of the start of this war on February 24.
=====The Drug War and “National Security”=====
[https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-drug-war-and/ by Jefferson Morley and Malcolm Byrne 1989 DISSENT]
The war on drugs is entering its twentieth year. On October 24, 1969, President Richard Nixon called a press conference to issue the initial declaration of war. Every president since has escalated the hostilities. President-elect Bush promises to do the same. Yet there is still no prospect of success.
=====Poll Results on American Attitudes Toward War on Drugs=====
[https://www.aclu.org/documents/poll-results-american-attitudes-toward-war-drugs by ACLU 9/6/21]
As the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s declaration of a “War on Drugs” approaches, the vast
majority of American voters believe the policy has been a failure. The majority of voters believe that current drug
policies have made the problem of drug use and addiction worse and only served to overcrowd the nation’s jails.
=====“License to Kill”=====
[https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/03/02/license-kill/philippine-police-killings-dutertes-war-drugs by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 2/3/17]
Two gunshots rang out. Police investigators arrived moments later and were assisted by the gunmen. In their report, the police referred to Mejos as “a suspected drug pusher” who “pointed his gun [at the police] but the police officers were able to shoot him first hitting him on the body causing his instantaneous death.” They said a shabu packet was found along with a handgun. “But Paquito never had a gun,” said his relative. “And he did not have any shabu that day.”
=====House Passes Authority for Worldwide War=====
[https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/house-passes-authority-worldwide-war by Sam Milgrom 26/5/11 ACLU]
The House just passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including a provision to authorize worldwide war, which has no expiration date and will allow this president — and any future president — to go to war anywhere in the world, at any time, without further congressional authorization. The new authorization wouldn’t even require the president to show any threat to the national security of the United States. The American military could become the world’s cop, and could be sent into harm’s way almost anywhere and everywhere around the globe.
=====April 17, 1965: Largest Anti-War Protest=====
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/largest-antiwar-protest/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT 1961]
“Don’t stand by while human life is destroyed.” — statement on one of the April 17, 1965 outreach fliers.
=====Reconstruction In America=====
[https://eji.org/report/reconstruction-in-america/ by Equal Justice Initiative]
In 1865, after two and a half centuries of brutal enslavement, Black Americans had great hope that emancipation would finally mean real freedom and opportunity. Most formerly enslaved people in the United States were remarkably willing to live peacefully with those who had held them in bondage despite the violence they had suffered and the degradation they had endured.
=====Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times=====
[https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/14/israel by DEMOCRACY NOW 14/7/25]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected ceasefire deals and other chances to deescalate the devastating war in Gaza and beyond, all to remain in power and avoid corruption charges, according to a new investigation in The New York Times Magazine. “Netanyahu put the integrity of the coalition, the safety of his continuous rule of the government and the state … as a first priority ahead of any other priority,” says Ronen Bergman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Israeli investigative reporter.
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WORK=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/safer/camne.html by MORLEY SAFER PBS]
I had a jeep in Da Nang, and the afternoon before, I went out and did a little tour of some of the marine corps units to find out what was happening, to see if anybody was going on operations the next day, because the operations usually began very early in the morning, four-thirty, five o'clock. I came to this unit and they said, "Yes, we're going on a search-and-destroy in the morning. You want to come along? Please come along."
=====YELLOW JOURNALISM=====
[https://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_journalism.html by pbs]
The Spanish-American War is often referred to as the first "media war." During the 1890s, journalism that sensationalized—and sometimes even manufactured—dramatic events was a powerful force that helped propel the United States into war with Spain. Led by newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers--a style that became known as yellow journalism.
=====Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained=====
[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o by BBC 23/9/25]
There have been a series of wars between Israel and Arab nations. Uprisings - called intifadas - against Israeli occupation, and reprisals and crackdowns by Israel have also taken place.
=====I'm a Ukrainian journalist. I never expected to be a war reporter in my own country=====
[https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1231757996/ukraine-war-journalist-covering-russia-invasion by Polina Lytvynova 25/2/24 npr]
KYIV, Ukraine — I've never dreamed of covering any war. And I never could imagine that the first war I would cover would be in my own country. And this war has now become not only my job but also my life.
=====The Risks And Rewards Of Reporting In A War Zone=====
[https://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342430548/the-risks-and-rewards-of-reporting-in-a-war-zone by Scott Simon 23/8/14 npr]
I'd just come back from Sarajevo or Kosovo, and described how the city had no trees, because they'd been chopped down for heat. How people had to eat grass because they had no food, and how artillery shells whistled and crashed all night, scorching the sky, and how a couple of times shots from snipers came close enough to our heads to sizzle in our ears as we raced through town to file our stories.
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/ by PBS]
In television's first comprehensive look at an extremely timely issue, Reporting America at War explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century and beyond. From San Juan Hill to the beaches of Normandy, from the jungles of Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, the three-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Ives tells the dramatic and often surprising stories of the reporters who witnessed and wrote the news from the battlefield.
=====Even In 'The War To End All Wars,' There Was Art Coming From The Trenches=====
[https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540629611/even-in-the-war-to-end-all-wars-there-was-art-coming-from-the-trenches by Susan Stamberg 1/8/17 npr]
One hundred years ago, the U.S. entered the first global war — an ugly, dirty, agonizing conflict that cost millions of lives and changed the world. Now, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is observing the centennial with art and artifacts in an exhibition called Artist Soldiers.
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/pyle/europe.html by ERNIE PYLE PBS]
I suppose emotions here in the Pacific are the same as they were among the Allies all over the world. First a shouting of the good news with such joyous surprise that you would think the shouter himself had brought it about.
=====Ukraine war: Is impartiality always key to quality journalism?=====
[https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/9/is-absolute-impartiality-always-a-necessity-in-journalism by Zahera Harb 9/3/22 ALJAZEERA]
Since the very first Russian troops made their way into Ukraine in the early hours of February 24, the Anglo-American coverage of Europe’s latest war has been full of emotion and patriotic sentiment. Western correspondents on the ground in Ukraine and in newsrooms across Europe and America not only demonstrated high levels of empathy for Ukrainian civilians suffering from Russia’s unprovoked aggression, but also significant sympathy for those taking up arms to protect their country against the invader.
=====Conversations on Hemingway=====
[https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/hemingway/filmmaker-q-a-hemingway-journalism-and-war by PBS]
In this virtual event series, filmmakers and special guests explore the writer’s art and legacy. Conversations on Hemingway: Hemingway, Journalism and War was presented by The Kansas City Star and Kansas City PBS, and features Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Alex Vernon and Melinda Henneberger.
=====On fairness, bias in war reporting=====
[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-12-et-letters12.1-story.html by L.A. Times Archives 12/4/03 Los Angeles Times]
I was in Egypt when the war started and spent quite a bit of time in the hotel watching all the television channels available: BBC, CNN, a German channel, a French channel, the Egyptian news hour in English and several Arabic-language channels.
=====Vietnam: The War That Killed Trust=====
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/opinion/sunday/vietnam-the-war-that-killed-trust.html by Karl Marlantes 7/1/17 The New York Times]
In the early spring of 1967, I was in the middle of a heated 2 a.m. hallway discussion with fellow students at Yale about the Vietnam War. I was from a small town in Oregon, and I had already joined the Marine Corps Reserve.
=====Michael Herr, Whose Vietnam War Reporting Became Iconic, Dies At 76=====
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/24/483412772/michael-herr-whose-vietnam-war-reporting-became-iconic-dies-at-76 by Rose Friedman 24/6/16 npr]
When Herr left to cover the Vietnam War for Esquire, he didn't bring a great amount of journalistic experience. At 27, he'd been an amateur film critic, written some travel pieces and had worked on Syracuse University's literary magazine. But by the time his book Dispatches came out 10 years later, none of that mattered.
=====How the siege of Sarajevo changed war reporting=====
[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/19/how-the-siege-of-sarajevo-changed-journalism by ALJAZEERA]
This month marks 29 years since the beginning of the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the siege of Sarajevo, during which the city was militarily encircled and subjected to daily sniping, mortaring and shelling, first by the the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and subsequently by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS).
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/davis/kit.html by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS PBS]
I am going to try to describe some kits and outfits I have seen used in different parts of the world by travellers and explorers, and in different campaigns by army officers and war correspondents. Among the articles, the reader may learn of some new thing which, when next he goes hunting, fishing, or exploring, he can adapt to his own uses. That is my hope, but I am sceptical.
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR=====
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/teachers/pictures.html by PBS Shows]
In humans the sense of sight is by far the most dominant of the five senses. Scientists who study the brain have determined that about one-quarter of the human cerebral cortex is involved in the sense of sight. Today's media environment reflects our strong reliance on sight as a way of taking in information. It is an environment filled with a vast array of visual images, some moving, some still. Although video and film occupy most of our attention when it comes to the visual media, the photograph or still image provides valuable lessons in understanding the techniques used to convey information visually.
=====Millennials fear catastrophic war: it’s time for the world to act on their concerns=====
[https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/01/millennials-concerns-war-conflict-fear-survey/ by Peter Maurer 20/1/20 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM]
These findings are deeply troubling, but perhaps not surprising given the recent news headlines. Yet, our survey is not based on the news in 2020. Indeed, we asked our questions last year, which signals that this feeling of
=====Reporting On The War In Syria, Despite The Obstacles To Being There=====
[https://www.npr.org/2016/06/02/480435504/reporting-on-the-war-in-syria-even-though-it-s-too-dangerous-to-go-there by  Fresh Air 2/6/16 npr]
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guests are reporting on the war in Syria in spite of the fact that they can no longer enter the country. Anne Barnard is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. Thanassis Cambanis is a journalist and Middle East expert who writes a column for The Boston Globe and is a fellow at The Century Foundation.
=====Mexican Media Face Perils Reporting on Drug War=====
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mexican-media-face-perils-reporting-on-drug-war by PBS NEWS 25/8/10]
Gun battles like this have become almost daily affairs in Mexico, as heavily armed drug cartels fight each other and the government over billion-dollar trafficking routes to the United States. Mexican networks and newspapers have to make some tough choices on this drug war. They have to decide how to tell the story, how much blood and guts to show the public, and how to protect themselves.
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