Pulitzer Peace Prize Winner and His Drone Massacre

It’s a strange ritual indeed that is performed daily by the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Every day in the Oval Office, Barack Obama ticks off the list of people to be assassinated: men, women, adolescents, children, “reveals” the New York Times. The height of cynicism! In a country where the military-industrial lobby is all-powerful and where appeasement is interpreted as a sign of weakness, it sometimes pays off when starting an electoral campaign to make it be known that one is a “killer”.

Assassin drones for the “Kill List”
by Manlio Dinucci – Voltaire Network – 27 June, 2012

The United States must defend themselves from those who attack them, says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, rejecting the protests against the increase in U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan.

According to Panetta, Pakistanis must understand that the Predators are also there for their own good: They fly overhead, remote-controlled from the U.S. at a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers, to strike with their Hellfire missiles dangerous terrorists nestled inside Pakistan.

Opposite conclusion by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, after a visit to Pakistan: The drone attacks, which occur on average every four days, “cause indiscriminate killings and injuries of civilians, which violate human rights.” Moreover, they also raise serious issues of international law, in that they are conducted “outside of any control mechanism, civil or military.” Pillay has therefore called for the opening of a formal investigation. A charge that was curtly rejected by President Obama, who affirmed that drone attacks – which are also carried out in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and other countries – “had not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.” They are in fact “under very tight control.” ….more