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Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First

Over 100 people have been killed by Trump administration boat strikes widely condemned as illegal.


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Trump’s Expanded Drug War Will Make Overdose Crisis Worse, Experts Say

An executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction could remove supports that keep people alive.


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Historian: US Escalation Against Venezuela Isn’t About Drugs — It’s About Maduro

Trump declared a blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela amid a vast US military buildup.


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Trump Designates Fentanyl as a “Weapon of Mass Destruction,” in Escalation

The declaration comes as Trump has been escalating his illegal and unprovoked military campaign against Venezuela.


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Trump’s Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte’s “Drug War” Mass Killings

Former Philippine President Duterte awaits trial in the ICC for using the pretext of a drug war for his murder campaign.


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Trump’s Venezuela Campaign Is Part of a Broader Regional Plan, Experts Say

“It’s not just about Venezuela,” says scholar Alexander Aviña as US military activity across the Caribbean grows.


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U.S.-Rio de Janeiro Connection: The Machinery of Global Drug Control

The large-scale operation in Rio de Janeiro carried out on October 28, which has already left at least 121 people dead and once again laid bare the logic of war applied to poverty, should not be understood solely as a local public-security issue. It is…


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Trump Is Gunning to Illegally Attack Venezuela and Change Its Regime

The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.


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Colombia’s US Ambassador Denounces Trump’s Deadly Caribbean Boat Strikes

Ambassador Daniel García-Peña discusses the escalating tensions between the US and Colombia.


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Trump Could Target More Than 60 Countries Under Proposed War Authorization

A broad draft Authorization for Use of Military Force could give wide latitude to go after supposed “narco-terrorists.”


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Trump Administration’s Deadly Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fear of Wider War

The US is escalating the “war on drugs” and folding it into the “war on terror,” says historian Greg Grandin.


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Top U.S. Drug War Partner and Aid Recipient Convicted on Bribery and Fraud Charges

A darling of the Bush II and Obama administrations, Álvaro Uribe Vélez has had close connections to the Medellín and Cali drug cartels along with fascist paramilitary groups that committed heinous crimes in a war against left-wing guerrillas In late Ju…


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