“The only reason to move it there is to use it against Venezuela,” said one policy expert of the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford. White House officials have sought to walk back President Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Venezuela in recent days—even as the Department of Defense has continue to strike boats in the Caribbean and […]
“Inequality is a crisis in need of concerted action,” said Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. A panel of experts convened by South Africa’s president warned Tuesday that the world is facing an “inequality emergency” as the richest people on the planet capture a disproportionate share of new wealth and prepare to pass it down to their […]
“Trump’s military buildup in the Caribbean isn’t about ‘drugs,’ it’s about oil, power, and regime change,” said on critic of potential strikes in Venezuela. Two reports claim that the Trump administration is poised to launch strikes against military targets inside Venezuela. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night that the administration is preparing to attack a variety of targets inside Venezuela, […]
US forces have conducted over a dozen strikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since early September, killing at least 57 people, according to Trump administration figures. Fourteen more people were killed and one survived three new US bombings of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday claimed—again without evidence—were […]