From New York, this is Democracy Now, as President Trump signs a secret directive approving the Pentagon's use of military force

on foreign soil, like Mexico, to target Latin American drug cartels, we'll look closer to home.

We'll speak with Rolling Stone investigative journalist Seth Harp about his new book,

The Fort Bragg Cartel, Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces.

From 2020 to 2021, there were 109 soldier deaths at Fort Bragg, and only five of those

took place overseas whereas

all the rest took place stateside since then soldiers have continued to die at

Fort Bragg at an average rate of about one a week this is especially concerning

because of Fort Bragg's centrality to the US military it's the home of the

82nd Airborne Division the headquarters of the Green Berets,

and the Joint Special Operations Command. Most of the deaths are from deaths of despair,

suicides, and overdoses, but there have also been quite a few unsolved murders, many of them

related to drug trafficking in the Special Forces and the Airborne Corps.

And as President Trump threatens to bring out the military across the United States,

we'll look at the most populous military base.

Fort Bragg, where Delta Force is based, the most secretive black ops unit in the military,

and where it operates around the world.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The Israeli military has destroyed more than 300

homes in Gaza City and killed over 100 more Palestinians over the past day as Israel moves

to fully seize the largest city in the Gaza Strip and forcibly remove its entire population.

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