News Roundup 9/19/17

by | Sep 19, 2017

News Roundup 9/19/17

by | Sep 19, 2017

  • Hillary Clinton says she will not rule out challenging the results of the 2016 election in Russia involvement is deeper than she thought. [Link]
  • Donald Trump suggested the US should hold a military parade in Washington DC. Trump also said the message is to make the UN great. [Link]
  • The Trump Administration is looking to change the Presidential Policy Guidance to allow new detainees be sent to Guantanamo Bay and removing safeguards on the drone program that protect civilians. [Link]
  • The Senate passed the 2018 NDAA to give the military more than $700 billion in funding next year. [Link]
  • A Soviet officer who saved the world by deciding not to launch nuclear weapons in 1983 had died. [Link]
  • Mattis said the US has military options against North Korea. [Link]
  • The US carried out a show of force against North Korea by dropping live bombs near the DMZ. [Link]
  • Spain will not rule out using exceptional measures to prevent the Catalonian secession vote. [Link]
  • Officials say the London subway bombers have no ties to any militant group. [Link]
  • The US opened its first official military base on Israeli soil. [Link]
  • Ben Acheson argues the Taliban do not have a reason to surrender. [Link]
  • US Special Operations forces were within a couple of miles of the SDF position hit by a Russian airstrike. [Link]
  • Assad allied forces and US-backed forces are nearing each other in Deir Ezzor, Syria. US officials say that both sides are keeping lines of communication open to prevent any conflicts. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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