From Pakistan to Mexico: yes, American robots are taking over the world.

Since 3 September, U.S. robots have killed 149 people, and they're just the official statistics. So double that number. They're not "pilotless aircraft" or "advanced insurgent detectors" or "unmanned aerial vehicles". These are bullshit names used to detract from the fact that the U.S. government, the wealthiest, most advanced nation on earth, has produced robots that kill people, mostly civilians.

More frustrating is the fact that a U.S. terrorism alert issued this week about al-Qaeda plots to attack targets in Western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible news information, Senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have said.

This warning was an attempt to justify a recent escalation in U.S. drone and helicopter attacks inside Pakistan that have set the country on fire.

These drone attacks are pre-emptive and are not combating an eminent threat in any way.

The U.S. government are failing to take into account that these attacks are fueling anger among Pakistanis and the international community. It is an infringement of Pakistani sovereignty and counterproductive, making the 3000 American personnel in Pakistan easy targets. 

On the other side of the world, the U.S. have now deployed drones on the border with Mexico to counter American fears of "illegal aliens". 

Aljazeera explained the development:

In his book Empire's Workshop, the historian Greg Grandin argues that many US military policies used today in the Middle East - invented threats, targeted killings, and covert support for death squads - were perfected during dirty wars in Latin America against democratically elected leftist governments.

In the drone case however, Mexican economic migrants are facing technology developed to deal with insurgent fighters based in the conflict zones of the Middle East and Central and South Asia.

"Drone technology has vastly improved in the last few years," says Pratap Chatterjee, an expert on military contracting with the advocacy group Corpwatch. "The border is reaping some of the technological development that came from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," he told Al Jazeera.

When Obama was elected, people across the world anticipated change and hope, the two key words that fueled his rise. Now, despite drawing down troops numbers in Iraq, Obama has increased troops in Afghanistan and generally continued the murderous policies of his predecessor. Wreck havoc and destruction across the Middle East in the name of oil (twenty per cent for us, the rest for our allies in Western Europe and Japan)? Yes we can, the U.S. says.