We’re not the “good guys”: American warfare is terrorizing the Middle East via @Salon

That distinctly Hollywood vision of America’s drone wars (with a Terminator edge) was the one that had filtered down to the level of Kennebeck’s three drone-team interviewees when they signed on. It looked to them then like a war worth fighting and a life worth leading. Today, as they speak out, their version of such warfare looks nothing like what either Hollywood or Washington might imagine

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RT @manhack: Security Theatre, featuring works by Karl Burke, Harun Farocki, A​n-­My Lê and the Bureau of Inverse Technology

Security Theatre revolves around methods of simulation and documentation and their hold on respective truth claims about modern war. Specifically, this exhibition looks at how modern warfare is rationalised, remembered and portrayed across image based media such as electronic games, video and photography.

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