5: Hacked Audio Reveals Hillary Clinton Sees Herself Occupying “Center-Left to Center-Right”
IN THE HACKED recording of a private conversation with campaign donors in February, Hillary Clinton distanced herself from progressive goals like “free college, free healthcare” and described her place on the political spectrum as spanning from the center-left to the center-right.
Clinton has been inconsistent in the past about espousing political labels. She has at times touted herself as stalwart liberal. For instance, she said last July: “I take a backseat to no one when you look at my record in standing up and fighting for progressive values.” But a few months later, she told a group in Ohio: “You know, I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.”
The newly disclosed comments came in audio, apparently from hacked emails, that was revealed this week by the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative blog run by a Republican communications strategist. Clinton was speaking at a Virginia fundraiser hosted by Beatrice Welters, the former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, and her husband Anthony Welters, the executive chairman of an investment consulting firm founded by former Clinton aide Cheryl Mills.
The Intercept
4: Canada legalized assisted suicide, but there aren’t enough doctors to keep up with demand
Months after Canada legalized medically-assisted death, one province is seeing such high demand that it is searching for more doctors who are willing to help people end their lives.
Hundreds of people across the country have chosen to die with the help of a physician since it became legal to do so in June. In the western province of Alberta, 29 people have sought the service — 14 in the capital city of Edmonton alone.
And while those numbers might not seem so dramatic, the man in charge of Alberta’s assisted dying file says he’s shocked by the demand and the department is trying to find more doctors to offer assisted dying.
“I thought what would happen would be is we’d have a bubble of people and then it would settle down. But we’re seeing it’s not,” Dr. James Silvius, the province’s lead for medical assistance in dying, told VICE News.
Vice News
3: Syrian army advances as ‘Aleppo carnage’ sparks fury
Syrian forces and their allies are pushing forwards in a major ground offensive to recapture Aleppo’s rebel-held east, as international outrage grows over the fierce bombardment on the city’s besieged areas.
Dozens of Russian and Syrian government air strikes continued pounding the devastated city overnight, targeting battlefronts and residential neighbourhoods, according to activists. At least six people were killed in the raids on Sunday morning, activists told Al Jazeera.
The ferocious air campaign “helped regime forces to advance in the north of the city”, where they reached the outskirts of the al-Heluk district, Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group, told AFP news agency.
Aljazeera
2: As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change
“We are under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII,” says Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, in an extended interview in our New York studio. “It’s not that we need to go to war with climate change, it’s that we are under siege.” This comes as 2016 is on track to be the hottest year ever on record and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said if he is elected, he will weaken the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, abolish President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, promote fossil fuel exploration and recruit oil and gas executives to lead his Cabinet.
Democracy Now
1: Trump campaign faces biggest crisis yet after tax documents published
Donald Trump was reeling from the biggest crisis of his campaign on Sunday, after the publication of documents suggesting the wealthy Republican nominee may have been able to escape paying income tax for nearly two decades.
In a direct challenge to his claim to be a successful businessman and a champion of America’s hard-working middle class, the anonymously leaked tax returns reveal how Trump used aggressive accounting tactics and the failure of several businesses to claim a loss of $916m in his 1995 personal filing.
Independent experts say under US rules, this could be large enough to legally shelter hundreds of millions in income from years of federal tax – despite Trump’s high-rolling lifestyle and criticism of others for avoiding tax.
The Guardian
