9/9/26: Wild Socialist Conference Goes Off The Rails, New Doc Exposes Caribbean Boat Strikes

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The U.S. has conducted over 60 strikes killing more than 220 people, and in one instance, survivors clinging to wreckage were killed 45 minutes later by the same aircraft. There is no compelling legal argument that these strikes are anything other than murder or a war crime.

The families of those killed are living in extreme poverty, which contradicts the idea that the victims were high-level drug runners. The families insist the victims had nothing to do with drugs, and there is no evidence to say that they did.

The legal criteria for strikes are in a classified OLC document that does not require drugs to be on the boat for a strike to be legal. The U.S. government has not responded to questions confirming the identities of those killed, and it remains unclear if they even know who they are killing.

The strikes are not about fentanyl because the drug does not come from Colombia or Venezuela. Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine, in the same month the U.S. killed over 20 people in boat strikes, showing the operation is not about stopping drugs.

The U.S. repatriated survivors without charges, which undermines the claim that they are enemy combatants in a war. A Coast Guard rescue plane circled for hours before heading to survivors, effectively letting them drown, and other requested rescues never left port.

Rene Cobo, a fixer and producer for Al Jazeera and the BBC, was assassinated by armed men in Ecuador. Cobo previously risked his life to extract Rushing's team from a dangerous situation on the coast of Ecuador. There have been credible accusations that police were involved in Cobo's killing.