Senator Coons gets at the heart of the war powers issue, which can seem dry and legalistic. If we ignore the legal demarcation of war powers and the role of Congress, the result is that the President as the commander of the military gets to kill anyone any time for any reason.

CIA-led regime changes abroad are exactly the kind of deep state activity that Americans voted against. Americans want to rebuild our country, not have endless wars that lead to violence, chaos, and mass migration.

On Democracy Now! I discussed Trump's bombing campaign in the Caribbean, his threats against Venezuela, & rising tensions with Colombia. I argued the whole thing is a hoax. This is a return to gunboat diplomacy for greater alignment of the backyard, not a serious war on drug

US strikes on boats. Threats against Venezuela and Colombia. International law ignored across Latin America. CEPR's new live tracker captures the escalation as it happens. This is urgent. Follow our live tracker to stay up to date: cepr.net/publications/a…

Trump just denied reports that land strikes in Venezuela are imminent. It's clear that hawks in the Trump administration are using friendly papers to try and make war with Venezuela inevitable. But the fact remains: this is a deeply unpopular policy.

The President who ran on "no more wars" has renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War & threatened to invade Canada, Venezuela, Greenland, Panama, & now Nigeria. So much for America First.

My comments on developments ahead of today's bipartisan War Powers Resolution vote in the Senate, an attempt at blocking a disastrous regime change war in Venezuela:

Yesterday, the people of Ecuador defeated a referendum to reintroduce US military bases in the country. lemonde.fr/en/internation… The vote couldn’t be more symbolic and geopolitically significant given current US military threats in the region and the reassertion of the Monroe

🇪🇨 Referendum: cepr.net/newsroom/ecuad… "The “No” vote on the reintroduction of foreign military bases reveals a deep voter dissatisfaction with the government’s security policies and doubt on President Noboa’s broader security and foreign policy agenda. It is, to date, the Noboa

Trump should be impeached for this. A lot of other things too, but this is pretty simple and clear. This is a country where about 80 million people have guns. We can’t have a president who thinks it’s cool to mouth off about why his political opponents need to face death.

If you stand for justice, for human dignity, for American leadership that lives up to our values and the rule of law, then join me in demanding answers about what's happening in the Caribbean and Venezuela. Share this message. Demand transparency. Demand accountability.

“Las declaraciones del presidente Trump amenazando a los votantes de Honduras e intentando coaccionarlos constituyen una violación del Artículo 19 de la Carta de la Organización de los Estados Americanos, de la cual EE.UU. es signatario” Mark Weisbrot cepr.net/es/publication…

This is how Rep. Maria Salazar, the Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee described the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, Mel Zelaya, in 2009: “Then the Honduran democracy stood strong; thank God for

Good to have Senators who take seriously our own laws as well as the international treaties that the US has signed. This would be a good first step toward the investigation and criminal charges in the United States, and possibly international law and international tribunals as

Congressional pressure on the administration is the best way to stop an impending war with #Venezuela, Mark Weisbrot tells BBC News (UK).

If Trump’s aggression in the Caribbean is about drugs, why did he just seize an oil tanker? This is yet another dangerous escalation that brings us closer to a regime change war. Congress must wake up, reassert its constitutional authority, and stop this.

I am sounding the alarm on the military buildup of our Navy, bombers, and the Marines in the Caribbean. We need to oppose a regime change war in Venezuela and invest in jobs here at home.

This is 2 minutes of information that everyone should see and share -- and contact their representative in Congress. Who will be voting to stop this war, which is illegal under US law. This needs to be done now, before Trump expands it into something even more dangerous and

CPC Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar: “Tonight’s razor-thin, 211-to-213 vote on the bipartisan War Powers Resolution to end these illegal hostilities puts Trump on notice. America has no kings, and Trump has no mandate to push his unconstitutional military campaign against Venezuela."

Not a single piece of Trump’s Venezuela policy is polling well. Only 1 in 5 support military-led regime change, new poll from YouGov finds. Clear majorities across partisan lines say Trump needs Congressional authorization for further action. Latest on CEPR: