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Democratic members of the Committee on Armed Services, which helps oversee the nation’s military, denounced President Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that United States military forces struck Venezuela and captured the nation’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.  Trump did not seek congressional authority for the attack and said at a press conference […]

Trump seems to subscribe to the view that might makes right, that the US is now unstoppable. But it is difficult to see the region going back willingly to “backyard” status without a fight.

By Joshua Scheer Multiple blasts were reported in Venezuela’s capital early Saturday after President Trump authorized U.S. airstrikes targeting military installations and other sites. Residents of Caracas saw plumes of smoke and reported hearing aircraft flying at low altitude around 2 a.m. local time, according to the Associated Press and Reuters. Power outages were reported […]