Elections in Venezuela are only two weeks away...and the US/Corporate Empire's manipulation machine is gearing up and running. Bush era Ambassador to Venezuela Patrick Duddy has written an article outlining options for intervention in Venezuela and corporate media are publishing one spurious article after another to cast doubt on the electoral process. This is very familiar to us at the Alliance for Global Justice. We've seen this kind of thing before, and if solidarity activists do not speak up now, the odds are all the worse that interference will proceed unimpeded. Now is the time to raise our voices!.
Targeted attacks from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have become an essential feature of American counterterrorism policy since President Barack Obama took office in 2009. U.S. officials praise drone warfare as the most effective way to eliminate top Al-Qaida and Taliban members, and therefore, combat terrorism. Conversely, human rights groups and legal scholars oppose this practice because drone technology confers an unprecedented power to kill away from the traditional battlefields and without the legal accountability and due process accorded in law enforcement settings. 
