Source: Common Dreams
by Chuck Idelson
“If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of conquest, intervention, and interference part of the natural order. As of this writing, at least 66 people (Venezuelans, Colombians, and possibly some of other nationalities) have been extrajudicially murdered by President Donald Trump and the US military in 17 separate reported attacks. … And as though that total weren’t high enough, the project notes that this number is very much an undercount, since it doesn’t include indirect deaths of the war caused by ‘disease, displacement, and loss of access to food or clean drinking water.'” (11/06/25)