Political commentator Greg Simons says the sudden early retirement of the US admiral Alvin Holsey removes the obstacles for the US warmongering.

Crowds gather in the Cuban capital to condemn the United States' policy toward Venezuela, voicing support of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. 

This episode looks into the purpose behind the deployment of the US warship in Caribbean waters and whether the drums of war are sounding in the region.

The interview is with Max Blumenthal, the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, founded to shed a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories, 0200 GMT on October 3, 2023.

The United States of America has recently fought wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen; at least, those are the ones the Pentagon has officially acknowledged.

A good deal of the earnings accrued from US wars goes straight into election campaigns, which in other countries would be considered bribery, but in the United States is relabeled as campaign donations.