News Roundup 7/24/17

by | Jul 24, 2017

  • President Trump’spersonal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, will no longer lead the legal team responding to the ongoing Russian investigations. Trump’s legal team spokesman, Mark Corallo, also resigned [Link]
  • Sean Spicer has resigned. [Link]
  • A GAO sting was able to buy $1.2 million in military weapons. The GAO was acting as a fake police force. [Link]
  • Kansas Department of Commerce was hacked, and the social security numbers of 5.5 million Americans was exposed. The Kansas Department of Commerce will have to pay for credit monitoring for many of the Americans who had their information exposed. [Link]
  • Nine people were found dead in the back of a tractor trailer in a Walmart parking lot. The victims were being trafficked from Mexico to the US. Survivors say there were up to 100 people in the tractor trailer. A Flordia man has been arrested in connection with this case. [Link]
  • Trevor Thrall explains why the failing War on Terror continues. [Link]
  • 12 US paratroopers were injured in Romania. [Link]
  • The US has banned US citizens from traveling to North Korea. [Link]
  • North Korea is facing a drought. The people of North Korea are facing starvation and sanctions preventing more food aid. [Link]
  • In January, Nigeria’s air force bombed a refugee camp and killed up to 170 civilians. The refugee camp was not marked on the map, and the gathering of people was thought to be Boko Haram. [Link]
  • In Afghanistan, a US airstrike killed about 15 members of the Afghan police force. This was a friendly fire incident, and the official number of dead has not been announced. [Link]
  • The Taliban seized two district headquarters in two days. Afghani forces are preparing for counter offensives. [Link]
  • Protests in Israel has left six people dead. [Link] A video from the protest shows an Israeli police officer kicking a praying man. [Link]
  • General Mattis believes ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is still alive. [Link]
  • Patrick Cockburn writes on the main stream medias lack of coverage of the destruction of Mosul. [Link]
  • Morgues in Mosul are struggling to keep up with the number of dead bodies. [Link]
  • The al-Qaeda linked Syrian Rebel group HTS has taken control of most of Idlib City. [Link]
  • Oxfam projects the current cholera outbreak in Yemen may infect over 600,000 people. A few months ago experts predicted 300,000 cases. [Link]
  • The Saudi led coalition bombed a Yemeni fishing boat and killed eight fishermen. [Link]

On Foreign Policy Focus #69, I update the Syrian Civil War. The war has over ten different armies fighting for control. Unpredictable men lead many of these armies. Several of these armies frequently change alliances and turn allies to enemies. Seemingly sensible alliances are often avoided for political reasons. Two world superpowers make it possible for war to continue to escalate in Syria. I also update Trump, Russia, and Turkey. LISTEN HERE!!

About 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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