Even with countless news reports and a leaked government memo, it's still difficult for many to fathom the scope of the United States' ongoing covert drone wars in Asia and the Middle East. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind," a visceral and elegantly designed interactive infographic from Pitch Interactive's Wesley Grubbs, puts the numbers into perspective, showing every known US drone strike on Pakistani soil since 2004. The numbers come from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, a watchdog organization that has been gathering eyewitness accounts from within Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where an estimated 3,105 deaths have occurred.
"Are civilian deaths worth the cost of all the other lives we take?"
The graphic...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/25/4145684/interactive-graph-visualizes-the-human-cost-of-every-known-us-drone
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