Eric Stoner

Eric Stoner is a member of WIN’s Publications Committee and a freelance writer and activist based in New York. His articles have appeared in The Nation, In These Times, and The Indypendent.

Robot Wars

Science fiction is becoming science reality

With virtually no public scrutiny, robotics is quickly revolutionizing not only how war is fought, but who fights in war. When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, the military had no robots on the ground and only a handful of unstaffed drones in the air. Today, according to P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the U.S. military has some 7,000 drones in operation—more than double the number of staffed aircraft that it owns—and more than 12,000 robots on the ground.

WIN Spring 2009

Witness Against Torture: The Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo

Shut it Down

Witness Against Torture:
The Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo
Edited by Anna Brown, Matthew Daloisio, Michael Foley,
Patrick Stanley, and Matthew Vogel
Yellow Bike Press, 2008, 164 pages, $15–$25

As the history books are written, few words or places will symbolize the Bush years more than “torture” or Guantánamo. While much of the country has seemed to ignore―or at least remain quiet about―these horrors, not everyone has been silent.