With President Donald Trump floating potential military action within Venezuela and authorizing operations by the Central Intelligence Agency after launching several deadly strikes on boats near the South American country, three lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Friday said they would force a new vote on blocking the White House from carrying out an attack there. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.
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A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean has left survivors for the first time, reports say. Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday. However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the…
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President Trump’s hostility toward Venezuela has grown more explicit and reckless in recent days, making indifference on this issue from top Democrats and center-left media all the more conspicuous.
The New York Times reports that Trump has instructed the CIA to “take action” in Venezuela as the White House pushes for regime change that would, according to the Times, involve a “broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force out” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The Trump White House claims to have blown up six boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean, killing 27 people thus far with no legal or moral authority to do so (leading to the abrupt resignation Thursday of the military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s boat attacks, Adm. Alvin Holsey). The CIA authorization, according to the Miami Herald, “coincides with a broader US military buildup in the region. The Pentagon has deployed more than 4,500 troops, most of them based in Puerto Rico, along with a contingent of Marines aboard amphibious assault ships. The U.S. Navy has positioned eight warships and a submarine in the Caribbean as part of the expanded presence.”
It’s been a fast and unprecedented escalation, putting the US on the brink of a disastrous, illegal, and immoral invasion of the sovereign country with the world’s 50th largest military. All of which makes the lackluster, largely indifferent response from the liberal establishment all the more troubling.
Let us begin by looking at the two top Democrats in the country, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—the people most in charge of leading the resistance to Trump. Neither Jeffries nor Schumer have
The Trump administration has covertly authorized the CIA to conduct lethal operations in Venezuela, reporting says, as Amnesty International USA condemns the administration’s latest strike as “murder.” The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has given the CIA the authorization to “carry out lethal operations in Venezuela,” including operations to undermine…
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At least one of the U.S. military’s strikes in the Caribbean last month targeted a boat carrying Colombian nationals, new reporting reveals, potentially signalling that President Donald Trump’s military actions in the region have a wider scope than has been previously reported. CNN reports that the strike on September 19, the third of the five publicly announced strikes in the Caribbean…
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