Newly released footage of US forces conducting a lethal strike on a reported smuggling vessel in the Southern Caribbean earlier today. 2 Sept 2025
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.
“Not yielding to pursuers” or “suspected of carrying drugs” doesn’t carry a death sentence.
If the U.S. military isn’t going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren’t posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the “justification” is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
Newly released footage of US forces conducting a lethal strike on a reported smuggling vessel in the Southern Caribbean earlier today. 2 Sept 2025
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.
“Not yielding to pursuers” or “suspected of carrying drugs” doesn’t carry a death sentence.
If the U.S. military isn’t going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren’t posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the “justification” is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.
August 31, 2025 - Scenes from the protests during the past few days in Bandung, Indonesia, as people besieged government buildings and fought police.
Protests across Indonesia started after parliament voted to give themselves absurd pay raises, while everyone else struggles in a cost of living crisis, and they intensified after police murdered a 21-year old delivery driver during the protests. [video]
August 2025 - Protesters around the world took to the street to commemorate the journalists murdered by Israel, and to denounce the barbaric Israeli genocide. [video]
In 2018, people around the US established occupations at ICE facilities, temporarily interrupting and distracting the mercenaries who would otherwise have been busy ruining the lives of ordinary people whose only crime was lacking a particular form of documentation.
From the vantage point of 2025, even the most milquetoast liberal should understand the call to abolish ICE. ICE is the arm of the US government most loyal to Donald Trump; it is the chief means by which he and his lackeys are establishing their police state. If we had successfully abolished ICE at the close of the first Trump era, we would be in a considerably better situation.
Those who argued for moderation have paved the way for authoritarianism.
ALT
