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PART TWO – OBSERVATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
Education
The tour experience suggests that there is an urgent need for a major program of public
education that includes:
- Information on drone warfare and drone surveillance. Basic readings include:
Drone Warfare: Killing, by Remote Control, by Medea Benjamin
Wired for War, by Peter W. Singer
Terminator Planet, by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Important government documents on drones can be found in the download section
of KnowDrones.com Current information can be found daily by typing in
“drones” in the news section of Google.
- Reports of the experiences of victims of drone attacks, presented by the victims
themselves or by citizens of those countries under attack.
- The history of US involvement in our current war zones, particularly military and
corporate involvement. An introductory reading might be War is a Racket by the
late Marine Corps General Smedley Butler.
- An explanation of how US military force is being used to maintain a system of
global energy exploitation that is harming Americans and the American economy
as well as causing suffering around the world. Work needs to be done to explore
and clarify these relationships; The Race for What’s Left by Michael Klare
documents the connection between war and getting hold of non-renewable
resources. This study would include an analysis of US involvement in nations
where workers are oppressed to maintain low wage zones.
- Information on the benefits of spending tax dollars on non-military jobs and
specific new, non-military work that can be done by specific military contractors.
A starting point would be these studies by researchers at the University of
Massachusetts (Amherst)
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/research_brief/MA_Military_May2012.
pdf
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_military_spendi
ng_2011.pdf
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