Click:全国楼凤论坛 Hillary Clinton’s interventionist record in Latin America is being called into question after Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate saw her and rival Bernie Sanders sparring over the U.S.’s role in the region. “Is Hillary Clinton a credible voice for condemning support for despots and human rights abusers?”—Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept When asked about his past support for Latin American leaders Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Fidel Castro in Cuba, and to explain “the difference between the socialism that you profess and the socialism in Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela,” Sanders declared: Clinton, on the other hand, “was at her all-out reactionary best, expressing contempt for the likes of Cuba and…

As a new report shows an estimated 650 million of the world’s poorest people still lack access to water that is safe to consume and 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation, warriors from the frontlines of this global crisis—many of them women and girls—are gathering in New York on Tuesday to affirm that water is a human right. The World Water Day event is being billed as an alternative “People’s Summit” to the invite-only White House Water Summit also taking place Tuesday, and will “ensure the voices of those directly impacted and working on the ground as advocates on the human rights to water and sanitation are heard,” according to organizers.…

“What business did the Bureau of Prisons have with a torture site in Afghanistan?” So asks Carl Takei, staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, as his organization on Thursday filed suit against the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) over documents related to a visit to a CIA detention site code named COBALT. The ACLU had sought, under a Freedom of Information Act request, records of BOP visits to and involvement with the torture site, but the human rights and civil liberties organization’s request was denied, with the BOP saying no such records could be found. That’s highly unlikely, ACLU says. As the group states in its complaint, filed…

Formula 1 has confirmed that 10 members of the F1 community recently tested positive for COVID-19, but the cases were not linked to spectator attendance at the Russian Grand Prix. As part of F1’s ongoing safety protocol, a total of 1,822 tests were conducted on teams, drivers and personnel between Friday 25th September and Thursday 1st October, with ten individuals – labeled as ancillary personnel – diagnosed as positive. “Those cases have been managed quickly and effectively without impacting the event,” stated F1. “The presence of fans has not affected that situation as the public was not allowed to enter the F1 bubble as per our protocol in force.” Last…

Fashion designer Telfar Clemens has been awarded the National Design Awards for Fashion Design accolade from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The awards, which celebrate design innovation and social impact, held a virtual gala to honour the recipients across nine categories including fashion, design, climate action, architecture, communication, digital, landscape architecture and product design.  Telfar Clemens, who was recently honoured with the CFDA’s Accessories Designer of the Year award, was presented with the Fashion Design award, which is given to an individual or firm for the design of apparel, accessory, jewellery, footwear or textiles. In a self-description included in the Cooper Hewitt’s press material, Clemens wrote: “Become a queer,…

Rep. Mo BrooksMorris (Mo) Jackson BrooksOvernight Defense: Senate confirms US military’s first African American service chief | Navy to ban display of Confederate flags | GOP lawmakers urge Trump not to cut troops in Germany Republicans urge Trump to reject slashing US troop presence in Germany Conservative lawmakers press Trump to suspend guest worker programs for a year MORE (R-Ala.) is locked in the race toward a contentious August primary to fill the Senate seat once held by 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. But Brooks’s previous…

Ugly, shuttered strip mines leftover from coal’s heyday are scattered across the American landscape from Appalachia to Illinois—and the industry’s plummeting fortunes means that companies may skip out on their obligations to clean up those toxic eyesores, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under 1977 federal legislation, coal companies are required to rehabilitate the landscape—both aesthetically and environmentally—once the mine is no longer in use. However, as the coal industry dies, looming bankruptcies could allow companies to evade that law. “Bankruptcy restructuring could provide coal companies with a way of escaping obligations to restore land,” the Post observes. The suffering, sickened communities left in coal’s wake would then be left…

The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s historic trip to Hiroshima should not be seen as an apology to victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, doubling down on what anti-nuclear advocates say was already a hypocritical gesture. Press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters during a press conference that if people see Obama’s visit as an apology, “they’ll be interpreting it wrongly.” “The president intends to visit to send a much more forward-looking signal for his ambition of realizing the goal of a planet without nuclear weapons,” Earnest said. However, as Pulitzer Prize-winning national security and military reporter Mark Thompson wrote for Time on Tuesday, Obama’s…

Doctors Without Borders said Thursday that a hospital it supported in the Syrian city of Aleppo was bombed, destroying the key pediatric facility and killing at least 14 people. The medical humanitarian aid group, also known by its French acronym, MSF, said in a statement that two doctors were among the casualties, including one of last pediatricians in Aleppo, and that other medical structures in the city had also been attacked this week. Witnesses said the Al Quds hospital was hit by a missile from a fighter jet Wednesday, according to CNN. “MSF categorically condemns this outrageous targeting of yet another medical facility in Syria,” said Muskilda Zancada, MSF head…

Backed by key women’s health and civil liberties groups, 178 House Democrats on Tuesday sent a letter to Republican Speaker Paul Ryan demanding he disband an anti-choice investigative panel that has been issuing subpoenas to abortion providers and medical researchers around the country. The so-called “Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives” was created to look into fetal tissue research in the wake of last summer’s video smear campaign by anti-abortion activists that purported to show Planned Parenthood officials admitting to selling fetal body parts. In January, a grand jury empaneled to investigate those charges indicted the anti-abortion activists for fraud instead. “ Women’s health and academic freedom advocates have long…