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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS drone attacks are ‘targeted assassinations’
Rozoff told Press TVs U.S. Desk on Tuesday that the deadly airstrikes in Pakistan and Yemen are a violation of every Geneva Convention.
Top White House adviser John O. Brennan, in his latest remark on the issue, has said that not only does the U.S. Constitution allow the president to assassinate people anywhere on the planet, but that the drone program is legal, ethical and wise.
The fact that a leading U.S. official like John Brennan would attempt to justify or even celebrate these mass killings is a moral and political incitement against the government of the United States, Rozoff said.
Read more: http://presstv.com/usdetail/239064.html
I couldn't agree more that the unethical drone strikes are assassinations but I think they're also assassinations based on suspicion which is disturbing considering that people are relentlessly slaughtered without trial and there seems to be little mass opposition or legislation opposing the continued drone slaughters.
The Link
(757 posts)I think there is probably a big difference between the two.
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)same $$ driven leads that put most of the people in Gitmo..and gave us lies about WMD.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Since you post daily, sometimes hourly articles from the official press arm of the Iranian government, can you comment on its position that homosexuality is a disease, and that same-sex marriage is immoral?
Thanks in advance.
RZM
(8,556 posts)Shortly after posting this:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=86479
The number of star members ignoring me went up by one. Of course I don't know who it was . . . but I have an idea
The Link
(757 posts)And our current President finds same-sex marriage immoral. What does the Iranian governments position on LGBT rights have to do with the subject of this discussion thread?
The Northerner
(5,040 posts)The Northerner
(5,040 posts)While I support equal treatment for LGBT persons I don't see how it relates to the ongoing slaughter of civilians by drone strikes.
How about discussing the OP instead?
Robb
(39,665 posts)...If the KKK Monthly or what-have-you had a good recipe for cornbread, would you share it with us in the Cooking and Baking Group?
How about the Washington (Moonie) Times' take on the economy? Fox News editorials on infrastructure?
Can you clarify why you propagate a source that is required by law in its country to parrot the government's viewpoints, when so many of those "viewpoints" are unacceptable to any thinking liberal?
Thanks in advance.
The Northerner
(5,040 posts)occurrences of warmongering, imperialism, and foreign policy-related hypocrisy which the msm usually doesn't.
Aside from some independent media sources such as Democracy Now, The Nation, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, World Socialist Web Site, etc. there doesn't seem to be much of a focus on the ongoing slaughter of people by drone strikes in foreign countries.
And no, I don't post news from the Washington Times, Fox News, KKK, etc.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Press TV, and its affiliates, are required by the Iranian constitution to represent the opinions of the government. That is no small matter.
It might be one thing to cite a questionable source. But you are citing a source that is part and parcel to a government. You are helping contribute to increasing the reach and influence of a government, not an independent news source.
And this is a government that makes being gay an imprisonable offense.
I'll ask you to confirm: do you oppose all homophobia? Because this is an opportunity to actually do so.
The Northerner
(5,040 posts)I don't see how that relates to the drone strikes which slaughter numerous innocent civilian and suspects on a weekly basis.
Robb
(39,665 posts)There are, as you admit, other sources that are covering this issue. I will be as clear as possible.
Stop using the one that's run by a bigoted government, please.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)be said to be homophobic, I didn't realize that homophobia justified drone strikes.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)I mean, seriously, Iranian state-owned press????
Do I even have to start listing the anti-gay, anti-Semitic crap they routinely push????
randome
(34,845 posts)Now they are done publicly with drones. Perhaps that's progress? At least it's in the open for all to see!
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)for their felony warrantless spying on Americans in America.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)As Robb noted upthread, they have a rather disgusting view on gay rights, not to mention featuring Nicholas Kollerstrom.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)it's probably no less newsworthy and reliable than our own.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)there's no denying their deplorable positions and reporting on some social issues diminishes their credibility. That doesn't mean everything they report must be a lie.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)that such strikes cause fewer unintended casualties than other types of strikes.
In order to build much opposition there would need to be a campaign to prove otherwise.
But hell, where was the mass opposition to the bombing runs which resulted from those no-fly zones (which only the US and the UK set up, the UN did not get involved)? In other words, I would not hold my breath waiting for mass opposition to these strikes/slaughters.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)that refute the Pentagon's slimeball numbers.
I believe one was by a news outfilt and one was by a think tank. Don't remember who but they will come up for you if you search "drone strikes kill civilians". Or, one will and it refers to the other. Sorry, rq.