{"id":56077,"date":"2025-11-10T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=56077"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:34:17","slug":"the-presidents-murder-spree-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/10\/the-presidents-murder-spree-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The President’s Murder Spree Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration murdered<\/a> six more civilians in the Pacific:<\/p>\n

The United States struck two alleged drug-carrying vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing six people on board, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, as calls mounted for investigations into the strikes.<\/em><\/p>\n

The U.S. military has murdered more than 70 people in the Caribbean and the Pacific over the last two months. The president and the Secretary of Defense have given illegal orders to kill civilians on these boats at least 18 times and every time the orders have been carried out. The president wants to use the military as his own assassins, and it appears that no one is willing to refuse that assignment.<\/p>\n

The government has a secret list<\/a> of 24 organizations that it considers \u201cdesignated terrorist organizations.\u201d At least one of the groups, the so-called Cartel de los Soles, doesn\u2019t really exist<\/a>. Others have little to do with the drug trade. The rest are drug cartels that have nothing to do with terrorism. One thing they all have in common is that they aren\u2019t engaged in an armed conflict with the United States. The \u201cconflict\u201d is completely made-up because no one is attacking or threatening to attack the U.S. or American forces in the region. The administration\u2019s justification for the murder spree is a lie built on top of a lie built on top of another lie.<\/p>\n

The Intercept spoke<\/a> to Brian Finucane about the administration\u2019s secret list, and he said this:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe administration has established a factual and legal alternate universe for the executive branch,\u201d said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war. \u201cThis is the president, purely by fiat, saying that the U.S. is in conflict with these undisclosed groups without any congressional authorization. So this is not just a secret war, but a secret unauthorized war. Or, in reality, a make-believe war, because most of these groups we probably couldn\u2019t even be in a war with.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s own briefings have confirmed that they don\u2019t know who the people on the boats are, and they aren\u2019t interested in finding out. Thanks to news reporting, we are slowly getting a better picture of who the president\u2019s murder victims are. The Associated Press investigated<\/a> earlier U.S. boat attacks and mostly found poor men trying to make a living:<\/p>\n

One was a fisherman\u202fstruggling to eke\u202fout a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.<\/em><\/p>\n

The men had little in common beyond their Venezuelan seaside hometowns and the fact all four were among the more than 60 people killed since early September when the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of these men may have been criminals, but they were at most small-time smugglers looking for ways to make a little more money for their families. They had done nothing that could possibly justify killing them, and they were no threat to the military that blew them up. To call these men \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d is a lie, and to murder them because of that lie is utterly despicable.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Eunomia<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trump administration murdered six more civilians in the Pacific: The United States struck two alleged drug-carrying vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing six people on board, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, as calls mounted for investigations into the strikes. The U.S. military has murdered more than 70 people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[747],"class_list":["post-56077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"The U.S. military has murdered more than 70 people in the Caribbean and the Pacific over the last two months. "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56084,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56077\/revisions\/56084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56077"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}