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5 days agoDefending The Indefensible - Above the Law
Drug boats should be stopped and searched, and their operators should be arrested and tried; they should not be blown up. The penalty for transporting drugs is years in prison, not immediate death without proof or jury. When a first bomb strike doesn't kill everyone, survivors should be rescued and tried, not blasted into small bits as they sit atop a capsized boat in the middle of the ocean. As a society, what's come over us?
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6 days agoTrump Designates Fentanyl an Official Weapon of Mass Destruction' Says Drug Causes More Damage Than Any Bomb
President Trump classified fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction and authorized military actions against traffickers, citing massive overdose deaths and national harm.
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2 weeks agoUS politics
What Law Allows No Survivors?' Fox Reporter Pushes WH On Legality of Second Boat Strike
The Trump administration ordered lethal follow-up strikes on an alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling boat, claiming legality under the law of armed conflict and self-defense.
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2 weeks agoLawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump's military strikes on boats
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers from both parties said Sunday they support congressional reviews of U.S. military strikes against vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, citing a published report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order for all crew members to be killed as part of a Sept. 2 attack. The lawmakers said they did not know whether last week's Washington Post report was true,
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month agoRussia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,338
Russian attacks killed civilians and journalists; Ukraine struck Russian military infrastructure; energy systems and Zaporizhzhia's external power remain critical amid ongoing exchanges and international alignments.
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1 month agoTrump Boasts About Reducing Ocean Drugs Almost Down to Nothing'
Hours later, the president took questions from reporters at the White House, where one journalist asked if the administration has the legal authority to carry out the strikes. Yes, we do, Trump said. We have legal authority. We're allowed to do that, and if we do by land, we may go back to Congress. But we have this is a national security problem.
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5 months agoWar Not About Regime Change Upgraded to War About Regime Change, Alleged Ed Martin Spitter Faces More Spitting Charges, and We Spent a Few Minutes With Jonathan Van Ness - Washingtonian
Extreme heat warning issued due to high temperatures, reaching a heat index of 110 degrees today.
Trump's administration maintains military actions against Iran are not aimed at regime change.
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