A new investigative look at the ties between big business interests in Colombia, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her family’s charitable foundation are raising troubling questions about the role that corporate trade deals and big oil may have played in softening the powerful Democrat’s position on human rights in the South American country. …
President Obama on Tuesday evening said that progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) who have called out the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement for being a corporate-power grab and have vowed to defeat legislation designed to ram it through Congress are simply “wrong” when it comes to the pending deal between the U.S. and 11 Asian …
More than 100,000 people in Vanuatu—half the country’s population—still lack access to clean water, a month after Cyclone Pam devastated the Pacific island nation, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. Two-thirds of Vanuatu’s water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged, wrecked, or contaminated, UNICEF said in a statement. “There is water but quality …
U.S. President Barack Obama has made a sharp U-turn on his two-year-old promise to move the CIA’s controversial drone program out of the “legal shadows,” according to new reporting by the Huffington Post. In a May 2013 speech at the National Defense University, Obama vowed to move the “out of the covert shadows and into …
Ferrari is likely to differ the FP1 outings of Mick Schumacher and Callum Ilott that were scheduled at the Eifel GP on Friday until Abu Dhabi later this season. Adverse weather conditions at the Nürburgring that would not have allowed F1’s medical helicopter to take flight wreaked havoc on Friday’s schedule, with both scheduled practice …
At least eight House Republicans who are Democratic targets in 2018 are calling on Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsMcCabe, Rosenstein spar over Russia probe Rosenstein takes fire from Republicans in heated testimony Rosenstein defends Mueller appointment, role on surveillance warrants MORE to recuse himself from any investigations into Russian involvement in Donald Trump’s …
Click:high temperature gate valves WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats have been hoping to see a showdown between Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton for years. Instead, they’re getting a public feud between the senator from Massachusetts and President Barack Obama. Obama accused Warren and congressional Democrats on Friday of being “dishonest” and spreading “misinformation” about the Trans-Pacific …
Calling for higher wages and fairer treatment, McDonald’s cooks and cashiers will gather with progressive leaders on Wednesday and Thursday for large protests outside the company’s shareholder meeting in Oak Brook, Illinois. The two-day demonstration comes in the aftermath of the largest-ever strike to hit the fast-food industry—a 236-city walkout that included strikes and protests …
Click:art craft set The Canadian government’s historic practice of forcibly removing Indigenous youth from their homes and sending them to “residential schools”—where tens of thousands were subjected to abuse, malnutrition, substandard education, illness, and often death—amounts to nothing short of “cultural genocide,” charged the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which on Tuesday released its …
For the mere act of submitting documents to the International Criminal Court detailing Israel’s ongoing human rights violations and history of war crimes on Thursday, the Palestinian Authority is now facing a barrage of threats and rebukes from U.S. lawmakers and the White House. The warnings followed the PA Foreign Ministry’s submission of documents to …
