By Emily Greenhouse at The New Yorker.

Nabeela ur-Rehman is nine years old. On October 24, 2012, one year ago this Thursday, she was playing outside her home in Ghundi Kala, a village in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, when missiles hit her family’s fields. The drone strike killed Nabeela’s sixty-eight-year-old grandmother, Mamana Bibi, the village’s only midwife. Nabeela tried to run, but her body was too badly burned. She had to be rushed to the hospital with shrapnel wounds. Her older brother, Zubair, thirteen, was taken to Islamabad and then, when the medical costs grew too steep, to Peshawar, for surgery to remove shrapnel from his leg. Her little sister Asma, seven, has had problems hearing ever since.

By Jodie Gummow for AlterNet.org. 

For almost a decade, the United States government has downplayed the effects of drone warfare in Pakistan and other locales. Now, for the first time, a groundbreaking documentary, " Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars” by the  award-winning film maker, Robert Greenwald, focuses on the human cost of drone strikes.  The hard-hitting film exposes the lies and double talk emanating from the U.S. government about the extent of civilian death and destruction on the ground in Pakistan.

By Athar Mohoudin. 

WASHINGTON -- Congress for the first time will hear testimony from survivors of a U.S. drone strike, in a briefing Tuesday organized by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.).

Rafiq ur Rehman, whose mother was killed in an October 2012 drone attack in Pakistan, will testify, as will his two young children, Nabila, and Zubair, who were among those injured in the drone attack in North Waziristan Agency, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan.

By Michael Shank for US News and World Report.

Irrespective of the latest reports on possible collusion between U.S. and Pakistani spy agencies,Amnesty International's newest report on the unlawful American drone killings in Pakistan – that kill more civilians than the White House admits and could amount to war crimes – is a well-timed attack on the Obama administration's modus operandi for dealing with dangerous adversaries. 

By Rafiq ur Rehman for The Guardian. 

The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She was preparing my children's clothing and showing them how to make sewaiyaan, a traditional sweet made of milk. She always used to say: the joy of Eid is the excitement it brings to the children.

By George Zornick for The Nation. 

Though the debate over drone warfare is certainly more active than it was, say, one year ago, there is little doubt it is basically taking place only at the elite level—policy makers, journalists and a decidedly small handful of lawmakers have debated the issue hotly in recent months, but it is not one that consumes the American public at large.

By Tom Hayden. 

In a unique film premiere for victims of drone strikes, Pakistani leader Imran Khan will host a screening of Robert Greenwald's new documentary "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars" in Islamabad this Friday. Khan is the most popular political leader in Pakistan, and the elected leader of the region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where drone strikes are clustered. His former wife, the London-based, Jemima Khan, is co-executive producer.

By Eugene Elander for OpEdNews.com. 

I used to say that it all started with the invention of the gun, but my son Martin corrected me by making clear that it actually started with the bow-and-arrow.  What I am writing about is dealing death at a distance, which is despicable.

By Margaret Sullivan for The New York Times.

I’m appreciative of the reader response to my column last Sunday on photographic images from Syria. A few of those responses have made me realize that some further explanation is in order, on two points.

By Jason Ditz for antiwar.com.

State Dept Derailing Congressional Hearing on Drones

A Congressional hearing on CIA drone strikes is planned next week, but it’s going to have to go on without testimony from human rights lawyer and Foundation for Fundamental Fights director Shahzad Akbar, because the US State Department won’t let him.