Murder on the High Seas? | Marc Racicot and Greg Wilson

Murder on the high seas? | Marc Racicot and Greg Wilson

Since Sept. 2, following the orders of President Donald Trump, U.S. Armed Forces have launched at least 22 air strikes that we know of on alleged “narco-terrorist” vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean killing 86 civilians. Thus far, there…

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

As defenseless Venezuelan fishermen are slaughtered by a military blindly obeying his illegal orders, President Trump — wearing a phony peace medallion — parades before the world urging it to “give peace a chance.” A combination of madness and make-believe, the clash of his war crimes horror and the spectacle of his sanctimonious talk of peace is so grotesque, so steeped in Orwellian doublethink that it causes both choked laughter and a brain-bu…

Murder on the Open Seas

The illegal and immoral killing of people in small boats without a trial is itself criminal and anti-American.

The Trump Administration’s Killing Rampage on Open Seas: A Video Roundup

The UnPopulist illustrationDear Readers:The Trump administration’s series of “lethal kinetic strikes” on vessels allegedly used for drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea—there have been 22 such airstrikes since September—gives us perhaps the most vivid illustration yet of this White House’s most corrosive instincts: casual brutality, contempt for legal limits, revulsion of foreigners, and sheer operational incompetence that turns even routine mi…