When even mainstream media began reporting critically in 2013 on the thousands of people killed by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, it came to light that the engines powering these combat drones originated in Upper Austria. Yet to this day, every Austrian government has remained silent about this scandal. Under both U.S. President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, “suspected” individuals in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen were remotely assassinated without trial—usually by “Hellfire” air-to-surface missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the Guardian, a mainstream British n ...