(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the US applied “leverage” to Israel to get it to agree to a Gaza ceasefire deal, marking the first public suggestion from a US official that it was necessary to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US War Department officials don’t know the identities of the 61 people who have been extra-judicially executed in US military strikes on boats in the waters near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, POLITICO reported on Thursday, citing House Democrats who attended a classified briefing on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) On Sunday, President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela has captured alleged mercenaries with CIA ties, accusing the United States and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military exercises designed to provoke armed conflict in the Caribbean.
In a statement from Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, the socialist government...
Amnesty International, a human rights organization, condemned U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that have killed 57 people since September.
(Headline USA) U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead.
But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday called out Israel for its heavy bombardment in Gaza and the killing of dozens of children in the Strip.
“Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it killed 104 people, including 46 children, according...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Following Russia’s successful test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, President Donald Trump warned that the US has a nuclear-armed submarine just off the Russian coast.
“They know we have a nuclear submarine — the greatest in the world — right off their shores,” Trump told...
(Headline USA) The federal agent had a daring pitch for Nicolás Maduro’s chief pilot: All he had to do was surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman.
In exchange, the agent told the pilot in a clandestine meeting, the aviator would be...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to “immediately carry out forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip,” his office said in a statement, signaling the Gaza ceasefire deal is about to collapse.
Israel is claiming that its forces in Rafah came under attack, and Palestinians...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said in an interview with 60 Minutes that aired over the weekend that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s “days are numbered,” comments that come amid a major US military campaign in the region and threats of US strikes on Venezuelan territory.
“If I was Maduro,...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) Senator Rand Paul blasted President Donald Trump’s strikes on alleged drug traffickers as unconstitutional and illegal.
“A briefing is not enough to overcome the Constitution. The Constitution says that when you go to war, Congress has to vote on it. … The drug war, or the...