Justice Department tells Congress Trump doesn’t need its approval for military strikes on alleged drug boats

A senior Justice Department official has told Congress that the Trump administration can continue lethal militar…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #administration #Congress #congressionalsources #Drugcartels #drugtraffickers #ElliotGaiser #JusticeDepartment #legalopinion #militarystrikes #OfficeofLegalCounsel #PeteHegseth #TheTrump #Trump #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/225558/

Trump punishes terrorists and drug traffickers, except when they bring him money.

#Mexico urges #US to curb #drugtraffickers and #gun flows

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025/mexico-urges-us-to-curb-drug-traffickers-and-arms-flow

So the next #US #president and his lackeys are already planning to invade #Mexico.
Another step in their #scapegoating program to keep their base riled up.
Who believes they really care about their addicted population?
Who believes their attacks will be "precise" and limited to #DrugTraffickers?
Who believes they will stop if they manage to start?
Bad times coming.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mexico-drug-cartels-military-invade-1235183177/

#USPolitics #CurrentEvents #authoritarianism #DonaldTrump #racism

When it comes to #reporting on #NorthAmerica’s #OverdoseCrisis — the worst in our history — #misleading articles can increase #stigma against people who use #drugs, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire #BadFaith policy and make it more difficult for other #journalists to gain the trust and respect of #MarginalizedCommunities.

Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug #journalism from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that #decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs “made #Vancouver the #fentanyl capital of the world.”

The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other #misleading claims, including stating that #SafeSupply programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.

Reporting like this misses important context about the #DrugCrisis, allowing #politicians to drum up fear about #HarmReduction rather than confront how decades of #prohibition have impacted the current #FentanylCrisis. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on #opioids turned to heroin instead. Eventually, #DrugTraffickers began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/fearmongering-about-drug-dens-is-making-canadas-crisis-worse/article_3cb43484-444e-11ef-90b0-a7fbb265a168.html

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #BreakTheStigma #AddictionEducation #Fearmongering #StopStigmatizingAddiction #Health #Medical #HealthPolicies #MediaManipulation #BreakStatusQuo #FundTreatmentServices #FundHealthCare #FundMedicalServices #CommunityHealth

#MANILA – When #RodrigoDuterte was running for president eight years ago, he vowed to order the #police and the #military to find #DrugUsers and #DrugTraffickers to kill them. He said he would offer them immunity. In the months after, #PoliceOfficers and #Vigilantes mercilessly gunned down tens of thousands of people in #SummaryExecutions.

Years later, #Philippines reckons with #Duterte’s brutal #DrugWar
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/29/asia-pacific/politics/philippines-duterte-drug-war/