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  • ‘More Performative Killing at Sea’: Another Trump Boat Strike Leaves 4 Dead

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    Article by Jessica Corbett republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

    US Southern Command announced its 71st confirmed boat bombing, which killed four people, on October 4, 2026. (Photo: screen grab/US Southern Command/X)

    Condemning the “illegal campaign of extrajudicial killings” as “murder at sea,” Amnesty International USA asked, “Where is Congress to stop the horror?”

    US President Donald Trump’s boat-bombing spree continued on Sunday despite condemnation from around the world, claiming four more lives and bringing the death toll from the 13-month campaign to at least 238.

    Sharing a video of the strike, US Southern Command said on social media late Sunday that “under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.”

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    “Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking,” SOUTHCOM continued, without offering any evidence, as with at least 70 previous strikes since September 2025. “The operation killed four narco-terrorists.”

    Citing a federal memo that it aims to keep concealed from the public, the Trump administration claims to be at war with drug cartels and that the killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are justified. Legal experts and human rights advocates argue the bombings are at least war crimes, if not outright murder.

    Sunday’s strike was the administration’s first confirmed boat bombing since Ben Saul, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, said last month that even if the targeted vessels were engaged in drug trafficking, there are no “international legal rights to unilaterally use military force” to counter cartels.

    After SOUTHCOM’s announcement, Gizmodo reporter Matt Novak declared, “We murdered four more people in a boat today.”

    Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser who now advises the US Program at the International Crisis Group, called it “more performative killing at sea.”

    Highlighting the rising death toll from Trump’s “illegal campaign of extrajudicial killings, ie, murder at sea” initiative, Amnesty International USA asked, “Where is Congress to stop the horror?”

    The Republican-controlled Congress has declined to pass war powers resolutions intended to stop the strikes—though the odds of passage could change if Democrats reclaim one or both chambers in next month’s midterm elections.

    Trump’s bombing spree has apparently been not only illegal but ineffective. The Washington Post reported in July that a Drug Enforcement Administration analysis concluded that the boat-bombing campaign has not “reduced the amount of cocaine entering” the United States.

    Article by Jessica Corbett republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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  • ‘Do Not Become Inured’: Death Toll From Trump Boat Strikes Tops 100 After Latest Murders

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    Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

    A screenshot of a video from the US Southern Command shows the targeting of a boat in the eastern Pacific on December 18, 2025. (Photo: US Southern Command)

    “This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. We call that murder,” said one expert.

    The US military on Thursday bombed two vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing at least five people and pushing the death toll from the Trump administration’s lawless military campaign in international waters above 100.

    Thursday’s strikes marked the third time this week that the US military has bombed boats operated by people accused, without evidence, of smuggling drugs. None of the dozens of strikes that have now killed at least 105 people since early September have been authorized by Congress, and legal experts at home and abroad have said the attacks clearly constitute murder.

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    Brian Finucane, a senior adviser with the US Program at the International Crisis Group, warned against allowing the Trump administration to normalize and escape accountability for its extrajudicial killings.

    “The lawless killing spree continues. Do not become inured,” Finucane wrote on social media. “This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. We call that murder.”

    As with previous attacks, the Trump administration attached a short video clip to its announcement of the Thursday strikes, which came amid mounting fears that President Donald Trump is dragging the US into an illegal war with Venezuela and possibly other South American countries.

    But US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is refusing to release footage of at least one of the deadly strikes that he authorized with a verbal order to “kill everybody” onboard the targeted vessel.

    “We’re not going to release a top secret, full, unedited video of that to the general public,” Hegseth told reporters earlier this week, referring to footage of a September 2 attack in the Caribbean that killed the survivors clinging to wreckage from an initial strike.

    The ACLU’s Jeffrey Stein and Christopher Anders wrote Thursday that “if a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned.”

    “The harm is even worse when basic factual evidence, such as full videos and orders, is also hidden from the American people,” they continued. “Transparency can’t wait while the government murders more people. That’s why we’re asking everyone to send a message to their representatives in Congress urging them to act now. Demanding answers, insisting on public hearings, and refusing to accept secret law as a license to kill, is how we can all help stop these unlawful strikes and defend the basic principle that no one—not even the president—is above the law.”

    The latest bombings came a day after House Republicans blocked a pair of resolutions aimed at stopping the Trump administration’s unauthorized boat strikes and march to war with Venezuela.

    In the Senate, Ruben Gallego is pushing a new resolution that “orders the US Armed Forces to immediately cease hostilities against vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean unless authorized by Congress.”

    “If the president believes the use of military force is necessary, he needs to come talk to Congress first and make that case. The decision to use military force is one that requires serious debate, and the power to declare war unambiguously belongs to Congress under the Constitution,” said Gallego. “As an Iraq war veteran, I know the costs of rushing into an unnecessary war and that the American people will not stand for it.”

    But Trump insisted Thursday that he doesn’t “have to” go to Congress before taking military action.

    Asked if war with Venezuela is a possibility, Trump said, “I don’t rule it out.”

    Original article by Jake Johnson republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).

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