Shut Down Drone Warfare Spring Action

Spring 2025 Action: Photo by Scott Thompson

April 5-11, 2026

Holloman Air Force Base, Southern New Mexico

(The largest drone training base in the U.S. - graduates 700+ drone operators & pilots annually)

Find out more here: www.ShutDownDroneWarfare.org

WHY JOIN US?

Military drones are one of the most essential tools of Imperialist Aggression and Oppression of the 21st Century.

US drones continue to terrorize communities globally, commit illegal targeted assassinations, violate inherent right to privacy, and kill and destroy from afar with impunity, from Gaza to Afghanistan, Iraq to Venezuela, Pakistan to Somalia.

US/Israeli Military Drones have been used to target and kill doctors, journalists, students, teachers, and thousands of women & children in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

U.S. Drones have murdered over 100 people on boats off the coast of Venezuela, alleged "drug smugglers.” Execution without trial? For possible drug smuggling. Really?

US drones have played a critical role in illegal regime changes, most recently in the unlawful abduction of the Venezuelan president, Nikolas Maduro and his wife.

The absolute lawlessness of the use of U.S. militarized drones began with George W. Bush, expanded under Presidents Obama and Biden and is now insanely out of control with President Trump.

Help us demand a world free from war by first demanding a world free from drone terror!

Support the self determination of the people of Palestine, Venezuela, Somalia, Sudan and people all around the world.

This spring Venezuela and Palestine will be highlighted in our daily vigil themes.

US Hands Off Venezuela, Palestine and EVERYWHERE!

Encourage GI Resistance to Illegal Orders,,... Just as some Congress members did!

Note: In 16 years of peaceful drone resistance at Creech AFB, Nevada, including dozens of blockades, activists have never spent more than one night in jail. In 3 years of drone resistance at Holloman AFB, NM, activists have only been detained and never taken to jail! We ARE on the right side of justice!

The Shut Down Drone Warfare Team,
Toby, Nick, Virginia, Scott, Bill, Greg, Charles, Fred, and Edwina

Special Invitation:

We would like a HUGE presence of Veterans to stand with us at Holloman this spring.

Veterans For Peace, About Face, and all others. We welcome your ideas! Please contact us!

UK & France working to give nukes to Ukraine

 

Sovereignista

There is too much talk of nuclear strikes

The most serious news is that Britain and France are actively working on providing Kiev with nuclear weapons and delivery systems, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) stated.

➡ The plan involves the covert transfer of European components, equipment, and nuclear-related technologies to Ukraine.
➡ One option under consideration is the French TN75 compact warhead from the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
➡ The main goal is to make it appear that any nuclear capability acquired by Kiev is the result of its own development.

According to the SVR, London and Paris understand that this would constitute a gross violation of international law, primarily the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. However, they believe Ukraine needs a “wunderwaffe” — potentially even a so-called “dirty bomb” — to strengthen its position in negotiations and avoid defeat. 

Britain and France realize that there are no chances of achieving victory over Russia through the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported.  

Russia has sent statements through diplomatic channels to the European Parliament, UN, IAEA, and Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.  

Again, it was a deliberate act to let the new START treaty lapse.  For this, Trump is directly in the cross-hairs as the biggest idiot of our times.

US Senator Lindsey Graham, (OK we know he is insane but nuclear strikes are still being advertised as a normal choice), supports extreme violence in Gaza and even raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons.

Graham has said, “The killing of children and women in Gaza is justified, and I allow the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the inhabitants of Palestine.”

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov slammed Paris and London’s plans to transfer nuclear technologies to Kiev for the purpose of creating a bomb as bordering on insanity.

Russia would launch a nuclear response if NATO countries supplied atomic weapons to Ukraine, former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned. 

“I will be blunt and state the obvious,” Medvedev said, adding that the reported intention by the UK and France to hand over nuclear capabilities to the “Nazi regime in Kiev” would change the situation entirely.

“This is a direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a country at war,” he stated.

“There should be no doubt whatsoever that in such a scenario Russia would be forced to use any means at its disposal, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine that threaten our country,” Medvedev stated. “And if necessary, against the supplier nations now implicated in a nuclear conflict with Russia. This is the kind of symmetrical response that the Russian Federation would be entitled to,” he added.

Talking about Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela & inside the USA

Discussing how US is acting like mobsters. The US desire to bring Latin America to its knees. 

Inside the US fascist forces act without concern for justice. We live  in the belly of the beast and most hold these brutes in check.

Who gets invaded next?

We don't have the privilege to work in silos anymore. We need to connect domestic terrorism and Pentagon war mongering. And oppose the funding for endless war - $$$ that is need daily here at home. 

So activism is more important than ever. 

Chris Hedges film from major Italian Palestine solidarirty protests

 

With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. 

These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments around the world to confront the carnage. 

Though the genocide continues, the dockworkers’ industrial disruption offer us a model of resistance. 

Will the Italian way spread to the imperial core — and can it end the genocide?

Are We Paying for Ineffective Missile Defense & a Spiraling Nuclear Arms Race?

Missile Defense, as the term implies, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned.

Feasibility and cost notwithstanding, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable.

In this webinar, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome.

• Ted Postol, professor emeritus at MIT, is an internationally known analyst and long-time critic of the missile defense program. He has held positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Pentagon, where he functioned as scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and technical and policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford, he helped build a weapons technology training program for development and arms control policy. His awards include the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science, Arms Control, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which lauded him as “by-far the strongest, technically-trained, independent arms control analyst of his generation” and the mentor of “a whole generation of independent arms control policy analysts.” He has been awarded for whistle-blowing about governmental false claims about missile defenses like the Patriot system in the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of
• Daryl Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA), Washington, DC, where since 2001 he has led the organization’s advocacy campaigns on major issues including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs, the 2010 New START agreement, the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and strengthening the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He is publisher of the organization’s monthly journal, Arms Control Today, a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers, and has written and spoken extensively about all matters related to nuclear arms control. Previously, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, and the Director of Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There, he helped to expose and accelerate the cleanup of a toxic, Cold War-era nuclear weapons production site in his hometown of Oxford, Ohio, led the advocacy for the 1992 nuclear test moratorium in Congress and
• Subrata Ghoshroy, a former Senior Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), was the lead Technical Evaluator for its investigation into allegations of fraud in the missile defense program. When the GAO tried to cover up his discovery that contractors were lying about a $100-million test, he blew the whistle and quit the GAO shortly afterwards. He then joined MIT as a Research Affiliate with the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
• Linda Pentz Gunter, moderator, is the curator and editor of Beyond Nuclear International and the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.

~ Tell Congress to Stop Funding the Golden Dome - click here

 

~ To keep up with the militarization of space issue click here

Iran attack gone to shite?

 

THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets 45 minutes at a time on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. 

This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out on board the most expensive ship the US Navy ever built. 

The Wall St Journal followed up to confirm the tale today. 

There are too few functioning toilets for 4,600 sailors and the problem is worsening daily—there’s no chance of fixing the system without returning the ship to the US dockyards.

Some say the sailors are near a mutiny since they have been a sea so long without a break. 

Trump's TACO MO might have just found a new twist before the shit hits the fan. 

Why Seoul is Sailing Straight into a Technology Transfer Trap Made in America

By Ignis Rex

@Ignis_Rex

If you want to understand the sheer, unadulterated hubris of modern industrial policy, look no further than the recent chest-thumping in the Korea Herald. The narrative is as predictable as a K-drama plot: South Korea, the plucky tech wizard, is teaming up with its "Big Brother" in Washington to reclaim the high seas from the "looming" Chinese menace.

It’s a lovely story. It’s also a fantasy.
While Seoul patts itself on the back for its "geopolitical edge," the reality in the shipyards of Zhejiang tells a different story. If China is the world’s factory, it has now become its high-tech naval architect—leaving South Korea to play the role of the sacrificial lamb on the altar of "Make American Shipbuilding Great Again" (MASGA).

The "Tech Gap" is Now a Tech Ghost
For years, the comfort blanket for Korean shipbuilders was the "tech gap." The idea was that China could churn out low-end "floating bathtubs"—bulk carriers and barges—while Korea cornered the market on the Ferraris of the sea: LNG carriers and sophisticated chemical tankers.

Well, the blanket has been pulled back, and it’s chilly.
China hasn't just caught up; it has optimized. By localized supply chains—literally building the components next door to the dry docks—Chinese yards have made "high-end" ships affordable. They aren't just building smart-system vessels; they’re building them faster and cheaper than the Koreans.

Uncle Sam’s "Help" is a Debt Sentence
But the real comedy—or tragedy, depending on your portfolio—is the U.S.-Korea "partnership."

Washington has looked at its own hollowed-out, rusted-over shipbuilding industry and realized it hasn't a prayer of competing with China. So, naturally, it has asked Seoul to help. And by "help," I mean Washington wants Korean conglomerates like Hanwha and HD Hyundai to export their capital, their patented technology, and their best engineers to failing American yards.

This isn't a strategic alliance; it’s an industrial organ transplant where Korea is the involuntary donor.

Think about it. Korea is already struggling with a shrinking workforce and thinning margins. Now, it’s being pressured to subsidize the revitalization of U.S. infrastructure. It’s the equivalent of a world-class chef being told to leave his Michelin-star kitchen to go teach a fast-food chain how to grill a steak—while the fast-food chain keeps all the profits and the secrets.

The Price of Being a "Reliable Partner"
The Korea Herald calls this "geopolitics." A more honest term would be "industrial suicide."

As China continues to dominate the commercial market by being the most efficient player in the room, Korea is tying its anchor to a sinking U.S. maritime sector. Every dollar and every engineer Seoul sends to "rescue" an American shipyard is a resource diverted from its own survival.

In the end, shipowners don't care about "shared values" or Washington’s "friend-shoring" rhetoric. They care about who can deliver a green, dual-fuel tanker on time without breaking the bank. China is doing that today. Korea, meanwhile, is busy filling out paperwork for its American "partners."

If Seoul keeps this up, it won't be "ruling the high-end." It’ll be ruling over an empty treasury and a fleet of memories.