The US military has engaged in extrajudicial killings via drone strikes since it was first shown this tech could be used to murder people. The War on Terror has given us more than two decades of drone strikes — all of which have used war-related justifications to excuse them without the actual authorization of Congress. […]
THE HAGUE — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday set November 30 as the start date for the trial of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who is charged with crimes against humanity during his deadly war on drugs. The ICC has charged Duterte, 81, on three counts of crimes against humanity involving the murders of at least […]
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Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan criticized Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano for describing former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war as a “human rights” and “pro-life” effort. The Kalookan bishop warned that language defending extrajudicial killings risks normalizing violence and deepening what he called a “culture of death” in Philippine society. In a strongly […]
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It’s hard to believe we once were shocked to hear a government figure proudly declare that we kill people based on metadata. What’s happening now is even more disturbing. We’re killing people simply because they happen to be in boats spotted exiting certain shores and headed towards international waters. The War on Drugs has always […]
I came across a September 1976 piece in High Times headlined "Missouri — 12 Years for 11 Grams."
Jerry Mitchell, a 19-year-old from West Plains, Missouri, had sold about a third of an ounce of marijuana to an undercover Highway Patrol agent for five dollars. — Read the rest
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MANILA — As tension and gunfire erupted inside the Philippine Senate, where Senator Ronald dela Rosa had taken refuge to evade arrest and later escaped, Llore Pasco, the mother of two sons killed in an anti-drugs campaign, said the scene felt painfully familiar. For her, it reinforced the same injustice that pushed many families to seek accountability […]
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A former police chief linked to an earlier Philippines’ government war on drugs is refusing to be taken into custody to face ICC charges.
Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology.