The attack was announced hours after Trump threatened Iranian vessels near the Strait of Hormuz with “the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea.” The US military on Monday attacked a vessel in the eastern Pacific accused, without evidence, of engaging in “narco-trafficking operations.” The strike killed at […]
“Demand Congress take action against these strikes now!” said Amnesty International USA. President Donald Trump’s “summary executions continue,” Princeton University visiting professor Kenneth Roth said early Saturday after the US military announced its 43rd bombing of boaters whom the administration claimed were smuggling drugs. Sharing a 16-second clip of the strike on social media, US Southern Command said late Friday that “Joint Task […]
“This is illegal and endangers America,” said one critic of Trump’s boat-bombing campaign. The Trump administration launched another military strike on a purported drug trafficking boat on Tuesday night, and for the first time expanded its campaign of extrajudicial killing to the Pacific Ocean. In a social media post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed that President Donald Trump had authorized “a lethal kinetic […]
The Trump administration has offered no concrete evidence to support its claim that the boats destroyed by the US military were carrying drugs A woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the at least 17 people extrajudicially murdered by US military strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela said her slain […]