NEWSNATIONNOW (Alicia Sitz) - Flawed drug tests can separate mothers and newborns
Part of the problem with the urine drug tests carried out by hospitals is how certain medications and foods can contribute to false-positive results.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Ecuadorian fishermen testify to surviving US drone strikes
New testimonies not reported by US media reveal a wave of American drone attacks on Ecuadorian fishermen, who were held and abused in Salvadoran prisons.
By Oscar Leon Donald Trump’s so-called war on drugs strikes again—targeting civilians, treating suspicion as guilt, and producing false positives to inflate results in a war that benefits those at the top. New testimonies that have been ignored in US media reveal that on March 17, US and Salvadoran military forces attacked an Ecuadorian fishing vessel on … Read moreOpen
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - ‘It is truly terrifying’: farmer bombed by US-Ecuador armies exposes false positive attack
Vicente Garrido, Vice President of San Martin on Ecuador’s border with Colombia, speaks to The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon about the bombings of his community’s dairy farm by the Ecuadorian military.
After US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed credit for destroying a “narco-terror” training camp, local Ecuadorian media exposed the truth: Ecuadorian soldiers had bombed a farm, then abducted and tortured locals to cover up the attack. The Grayzone places this incident in the context of a pattern of crimes throughout the US “war on drugs” in the region, starting with the False Positives Scandal in Colombia during the 1990’s, when US-trained Colombian soldiers massacred hundreds of leftist opponents and community leaders, then branded them as narco traffickers. Under President Daniel Noboa, a close US ally demonstrably implicated in the international narcotics trade, Ecuador is using the drug war as cover for the consolidation…Open