News Roundup 10/16/17

by | Oct 16, 2017

  • A basic introduction into blockchain. [Link]
  • Senator Rand Paul explains the impacts of Trump’s healthcare executive orders. Rand Paul says the new rules will allow for more free market options. [Link]
  • A history of all the wars John McCain has called for. [Link]
  • President Donald Trump announces he will not certify the P5+1 Nuclear Agreement with Iran. Trump demanded that Congress changes JCPOA. Trump also announced new sanctions on Iran. [Link]
  • Iran’s foreign minister said Iran would remain in the nuclear deal so long as European countries remain in the deal. [Link]
  • Nikki Haley said the US will remain in the Iran nuclear deal. [Link]
  • Rex Tillerson responds to Trump’s Iran speech. Tillerson says Trump wants a deal with Iran that covers more than nuclear weapons. [Link]
  • Paul Pillar responds to Trump’s speech on Iran. [Link]
  • Under Trump, the US has dropped more bombs in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. There is also killing an increased number of civilians. [Link]
  • Spain plans to seize Catalonia if Catalan leadership does not end the attempt at independence. [Link]
  • James Carden explains how fighting can break out again in Ukraine. [Link]
  • At least 300 people have been killed by a truck explosion in Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu. [Link]
  • The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is warning the US the Trump’s new Afghanistan policy will not work. [Link]
  • US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces allowed 275 Islamic State fighters and their family members leave Raqqa. The SDF now plan their final assault on the remaining Islamic State fighters in Raqqa. [Link]
  • The Iraqi government says the Iraqi Kurds has declared war against them by allowing PKK fighters into Kirkuk. Iraqi Kurdish officials deny these claims. [Link]
  • The Iraqi army is advancing on Kirkuk. [Link]
  • The Syrian government is demanding that Turkish troops withdraw from Syria. Additional Turkish troops entered the Idlib Province of Syria as part of a deal to establish deconfliction zones. Turkish troops are thought to be working with the al-Qaeda backed Syrian rebel groups. [Link]
  • Recent Saudi airstrikes kill 29 children in Yemen. Saudi Arabia has been criticized several times for killing Yemeni children. [Link]
  • H.Con.Res 81 now has 30 cosponsors. [Link]

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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