Shadow operators at the front lines of America’s forever wars come back as damaged goods and often parlay the skills they learned overseas into criminal acts at home In his 2014 retirement speech, Admiral William McRaven, the former commander of the Jo…
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Following the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an indictment alleging that Maduro “moved loads of cocaine under the protection of…
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Trump’s invasion of Venezuela fuses the “war on drugs” with the “war on terror.”
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Trump Is Betting MAGA Fans Will Relish an Expanded War on Drugs Read Post »
Popular organizations created sovereign food distribution systems in response to US sanctions, says Andreína Chávez.
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Venezuelan Communal Movements Pledge to Defend Country Against US Imperialism Read Post »
Over 100 people have been killed by Trump administration boat strikes widely condemned as illegal.
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Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First Read Post »
An executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction could remove supports that keep people alive.
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Trump’s Expanded Drug War Will Make Overdose Crisis Worse, Experts Say Read Post »
Trump declared a blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela amid a vast US military buildup.
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Historian: US Escalation Against Venezuela Isn’t About Drugs — It’s About Maduro Read Post »
The declaration comes as Trump has been escalating his illegal and unprovoked military campaign against Venezuela.
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Trump Designates Fentanyl as a “Weapon of Mass Destruction,” in Escalation Read Post »
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 Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte’s “Drug War” Mass Killings Read Post »
“It’s not just about Venezuela,” says scholar Alexander Aviña as US military activity across the Caribbean grows.
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Trump’s Venezuela Campaign Is Part of a Broader Regional Plan, Experts Say Read Post »
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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U.S.-Rio de Janeiro Connection: The Machinery of Global Drug Control Read Post »
The Trump administration’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings.
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Trump Is Gunning to Illegally Attack Venezuela and Change Its Regime Read Post »
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