News Roundup 11/13/17

by | Nov 13, 2017

  • The Justice Department told RT they have until Monday to register as a foreign agent. RT is the first media group to have to register as a foreign agent. [Link]
  • A Marine drill instructor was given ten years in prison for abusing recruits. The drill instructor targeted three Muslim recruits. [Link]
  • The debt from US wars after 9/11 will cost taxpayers $8 trillion in interest. [Link]
  • Trump tells the Vietnam leader his country should buy more weapons from the US. Trump also said he would mediate the South China Sea dispute. [Link]
  • Trump suggests the US may remove some sanctions on Russia. Trump also said he might become friends with Kim Jung Un. [Link]
  • The State Department will give $750,000 to Hungarian media. [Link]
  • The US has spent $5.6 trillion on conflict since 2001. [Link]
  • Philip Giraldi explains how the US can be trapped into more interventions in the Middle East. [Link]
  • Reports from North Korea claim soldiers are looting food form the civilians. [Link]
  • The US carried out three drone strikes against IS and al-Shabaab targets over the weekend. [Link]
  • The ISIS group in Somalia has grown to over 200 fighters. [Link]
  • West African jihad is starting with a desire to protect cattle. [Link]
  • Lebanese sources say Lebanon’s Prime Minister is being held under house arrest in Saudi Arabia. [Link]
  • Saudi Arabia orders its citizens out of Lebanon. [Link]
  • Saudi Arabia has now arrested over 200 people in its anti-corruption investigation. [Link] Prince Bandar is among the Saudis arrested in the investigation. [Link]
  • A large earthquake killed at least 61 people the Iraq/Iran border. [Link]
  • The US is carrying out more airstrikes in Afghanistan. [Link]
  • The Afghan Maj. Gen. in charge of operations in the Helmond Province said “It’s with the Marines’ support and cooperation that we’ve reached this level…If they leave again, things will 100% be reversed.” [Link]
  • Robert Perry debunks claims that Assad used chemical weapons. [Link]
  • Russian airstrikes killed 50 civilians over the weekend. [Link]
  • The US claims the missile fired from Yemen at Saudi Arabia is Iranian made. [Link]
  • The UN warns the Saudi blockade of Yemen will kill millions of people. [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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