Drones: Weapons of War with Umar Farooq

<p>Join SWANA Region Radio&nbsp;in conversation with Pakistani-American&nbsp;journalist <a href="http://umar-farooq.com/index.php/about/" target="_blank">Umar Farooq</a> about the global proliferation of drones as a weapon of war. Last week Umar published an essay on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/bayraktar-tb2-drone-turkey-exports?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&amp;utm_content=feature" target="_blank">Turkey’s TB2 drone</a>&nbsp; which has been used both in Ethiopia against the Tigray region and in Ukraine as an important weapon against Russia’s invasion. We discuss with him today the expanding use of drones as weapons of war globally and the ambiguous position of the United States with regard to their manufacture, spread, and deployment. If you miss our live broadcast on&nbsp;<a href="http://kpfk.org/" target="_blank">kpfk.org</a>, you can listen to this show and our previous shows&nbsp;on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3YIefE3bud2ZIxtxgZfAGR" target="_blank">Spotify</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://anchor.fm/swana" target="_blank">Anchor</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yYTFkMWFlNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==" target="_blank">Google Podcasts</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.breaker.audio/swana-region-radio" target="_blank">Breaker</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://radiopublic.com/swana-south-and-west-asia-and-nor-WYXjgl" target="_blank">Radio Public</a>.</p> <p><strong>Umar Farooq</strong> is an independent journalist whose work has covered most of our SWANA Region, from Pakistan to Egypt and Syria. Currently based in New York, where he is&nbsp;an Ancil Payne Fellow with ProPublica,&nbsp;in 2017 he received a <a href="http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/mainstreaming-pakistans-tribal-areas" target="_blank">grant</a> from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to report from Pakistan’s <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/pakistan/2017-10-06/how-war-altered-pakistans-tribal-areas" target="_blank">Federa