News Roundup 11/16/18

by | Nov 16, 2018

News Roundup 11/16/18

by | Nov 16, 2018

  • USPS lost $3.9 billion in FY 2018. [Link]
  • A top aide to John Bolton resigns after clashing with the First Lady. [Link]
  • Lockheed Martin wins a $23 billion contract from the Pentagon for F-35s. [Link]
  • Rep Adam Smith looks to roll back Trump’s planned nuclear weapons expansion. [Link]
  • Ray McGovern explains James Clapper’s role in lying the US into Iraq War II and his role in Russiagate. [Link]
  • The US inadvertently reveals charges against Julian Assange. [Link]
  • Two SEALs and two Marines have been charged with the murder of a Green Beret. The Green Beret was killed in Mali in June 2017. The SEALs and Marines murdered the man after he reported their unprofessional behavior. [Link]
  • Vice President Pence says the second meeting between Trump and Kim is likely after the first of the year. [Link]
  • Bangladesh halts the repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. [Link]
  • A Brown University study finds the US has spent $5.9 TRILLION on the Terror Wars. [Link]
  • The Trump Administration considered extraditing Fethullah Gulen to Turkey to appease Turkey after the Khashoggi murder. [Link]
  • Saudi Arabia indicts 11 people for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Five of those face the death penalty. [Link]
  • Trump picks 4 Star General John Abizaid to be US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. [Link]
  • Andrew Bacevich writes on the segregation in Israel he witnessed in his recent trip. [Link]
  • Afghan officials claim 60 Taliban were killed in Ghazni. [Link]
  • The Saudi led coalition pauses the offensive for Hodeida. [Link]

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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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