(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US State Department on Monday formally designated the Cartel de los Soles, or Cartel of the Suns, a group that doesn’t actually exist, as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization,” providing a pretext for a potential attack on Venezuela.
The term “Cartel of the Suns” was first used...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday began the process to give the Muslim Brotherhood the recognition critics say it has long earned: a designation as a foreign terrorist organization.
The Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist organization founded in 1928 in Egypt, has long leveraged its ties to terrorist groups to exert...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new CBS/YouGov poll has found that 70% of Americans oppose the US taking military action against Venezuela, reaffirming previous polls that show the idea of launching a war to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is extremely unpopular among Americans.
The new poll shows that the opposition...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) International airlines have continued to cancel flights to Venezuela after the US’s Federal Aviation Administration issued a warning about flying near the country, a statement that came as the US continues to move toward launching a war with the goal of ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors say two Texas men plotted to take over a Haitian island, one going so far as joining the U.S. military to acquire training for an armed attack, with the goal of killing all the men and using the women and children for sex.
Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21,...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., and his twin brother Alexander are reportedly under investigation for illegally acting as “paid brokers” for U.S. defense firms seeking business in Ukraine.
“Pentagon General Counsel Earl Matthews alleges that Vindman and his twin brother Alex did not have approval from the...
(José Niño, Headline USA) U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee hosted convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard for a clandestine meeting at the American embassy in Jerusalem, the New York Times reports.
Pollard confirmed the encounter took place and characterized it as cordial. In the same breath, he denounced Trump as...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) announced on Wednesday that it has received the 1,000th aircraft as part of an airlift operation delivering US military equipment to Israel that began following the October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel and the start of Israel’s genocidal campaign...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Rhode Island store owner helped stop foreign scammers from swindling $240,000 worth of gold bars from an elderly victim, according to federal court records.
The attempted gold scam was revealed by the Justice Department on Monday in a criminal complaint against Chinese national Ka Hin...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll on Thursday and told him that he’s willing to work with the Trump administration on a new plan to end the war with Russia, Axios reported, citing US and Ukrainian officials.
The Trump administration has drafted...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found just 21% of Americans support the idea of using the US military to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, results that come amid a series of reports that the Trump administration is considering a regime change war in Venezuela.
The results are...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee held a meeting at the US Embassy in July with Jonathan Pollard, a former American intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying on the US on behalf of Israel, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.
The Times said it...