A capacious & racialized def of terrorism permits this violence. Simply saying the civilians are suspected “narcoterrorist” licenses profound violence—all in the name of “homeland,” which is always racialized as white. That’s just one way the war on terror operates with limitless capacity.
The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death.
We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com
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The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.