US Military: 'Alleged' Traffickers Only Die Off Venezuela
The article uncritically regurgitates the official line: six individuals—conveniently labeled 'alleged traffickers' from a 'drug boat'—are dead. The US is fighting 'groups the administration blames for American overdose deaths.' Such surgical precision, such moral clarity! One might wonder why, as per OpenSecrets.org, pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson (companies central to
the opioid crisis that actually generate American overdose deaths) poured over $2.5 million into political campaigns in 2020. Perhaps these corporations, whose products killed 68,000 Americans in 2020 alone, are not 'groups the administration blames.' Instead, the blame is neatly packaged and delivered by drone strike, far from corporate boardrooms. It appears selective outrage is a powerful
policy tool. The 'war on drugs' always finds its villains conveniently far from Washington boardrooms, prioritizing kinetic solutions in the Caribbean over corporate accountability at home. How many alleged traffickers need to die before we question whose interests are truly being served by these 'strikes'?