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Traffickers move cocaine and other drugs from Venezuela via a mix of maritime, island-hub, and overland networks that then link into Caribbean and Pacific corridors toward the United States and Europe...
The available reporting documents a contested legal and political dispute: critics argue that President Trump’s maritime strikes tied to Venezuela risked violating the War Powers Resolution by using m...
President Trump’s second-term actions have been alleged to breach multiple international legal obligations across distinct domains: lethal maritime strikes on alleged drug traffickers, unilateral sanc...
Available reporting says U.S. forces have destroyed or struck a series of small vessels in the Caribbean since early September 2025, and that U.S. officials have identified multiple of those craft as ...
International law draws a sharp line: killing shipwrecked survivors and persons hors de combat at sea is plainly forbidden under the law of armed conflict and longstanding maritime custom, and UN huma...
Since 2000 the public record shows a mix of U.S.-linked clandestine plots, private-actor-backed incursions, and in 2025 a confirmed program of CIA-authorized covert action aimed at Venezuela — alongsi...
Recent coverage shows officials and lawmakers have urged U.S. service members that they may refuse “illegal” or “unlawful” orders, but the public materials cited by news organizations do not list a fo...
The 1940 “Technate of America” map depicts a single continental polity defined by resource and strategic logic rather than existing nation-state borders, coloring a vast territory in a semi-official r...
Two distinct sets of laws are at issue: the 1986 Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), which has been characterized in contemporary posts as authorizing the military to use lethal force against d...
Nineteenth‑century European and American maps continued to label large parts of northern and central Asia as “Tartary” or “Tartaria,” often stretching from the Caspian or Ural region across Siberia to...
Central American countries function as key transit corridors — both maritime and overland — funneling cocaine and other drugs northward from Andean producers through Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic ro...
Available reporting in the provided articles does not allege or document that President Barack Obama issued any illegal orders to the U.S. military; instead, recent coverage focuses on Democratic lawm...
The U.S.–Mexico international boundary is most commonly reported as about 1,954 miles (3,145 kilometers) long; that figure appears in multiple government and widely used reference sources . Slight alt...
Drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea concentrates along maritime corridors connecting South American production zones and Central American transits to consumer markets in North America and Europe, with...
Claims that the CIA has been hiding “dark oxygen” — oxygen produced in total darkness by electrically active deep‑sea nodules — are circulating in podcasts and entertainment pieces that assert the age...
Genetic and anthropological sources show Melanesians are an indigenous Pacific population with deep ancestry tracing to the Out-of-Africa migration ~50,000 years ago and later regional developments — ...
Transgender people meet the literal definition of “actually existing” because multiple lines of evidence—historical, demographic, medical, and legal—show they live, are counted, and are recognized by ...
first landed humans on on , when the lunar module touched down in and two astronauts— and —walked on the lunar surface, while remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module . The mission launched e...
Over the past five years, has adapted to stepped-up interdiction and newer detection tools by dispersing routes, diversifying vessel types and concealment methods, and increasing use of at-sea transsh...
The United States maintains a dense mix of permanent bases, rotational forces, naval strike groups, and acknowledged—but often classified—special operations and intelligence missions across the globe;...