5: Leaked Hillary Clinton Emails: Could Bernie Sanders Have Won Primary If Leak Occurred Earlier?
On Friday, WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of John Podesta’s emails, including excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s paid remarks to Wall Street firms. The emails showed Clinton’s closed-door remarks were starkly at odds with many of her public positions. In one speech to a housing trade group in 2013, Clinton spoke of needing “both a public and a private position” when crafting laws. In other speeches, Clinton largely absolved Wall Street firms for the crash of 2008 and said financial reform “really has to come from the industry itself.” The leaked emails also show Clinton openly boasted about her support of fracking while secretary of state. In a speech to Deutsche Bank in 2013, she said, “I’ve promoted fracking in other places around the world.” We speak to Lee Fang of The Intercept, co-author of the recent piece, “Memo Shows What Major Donors Like Goldman Sachs Want from Democratic Party.”
Democracy Now!
4: British Immigrants Are Going on Strike for a Day to Protest Brexit Racism
Britain sometimes feels like a very different place since the EU referendum. While the country struggles to work out what it voted for on June 23, anti-immigrant rhetoric is on the rise, and there’s been a spike in the number of hate crimes.
That said, xenophobic attitudes are as likely to be found in the corridors of Westminster as they are on the streets. Government ministers have taken to describing EU citizens living in the UK as bargaining chips. Companies have been warned they will be asked to produce lists of foreign workers.
Matthew Carr has had enough. He’s one of the organizers of One Day Without Us—a day of action aimed at reminding the public and politicians of the positive impacts of immigration on British society.
On February 20, 2017, migrants and their supporters are being invited to walk out of work and college, to shut down restaurants, and to make clear their contribution to British society through their absence. I caught up with Carr to find out more.
Vice News
3:Scores dead after Aleppo pounded in aerial onslaught
Syria’s Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a local rescue group said.
First responders said the divided city’s eastern sector was pounded by more than 50 Russian and Syrian government missile attacks throughout the day that also wounded more than 87 people – some in critical condition.
“Up until this moment the Civil Defence is still working to pull people from the rubble,” Ibrahim Abu Leith, an Aleppo-based spokesman for the rescue group also known as the White Helmets, told Al Jazeera.
Earlier in the day, air strikes on a busy marketplace in the Fardous neighbourhood killed at least 22 people.
Aljazeera
2: Chelsea Manning emerges from solitary confinement after suicide attempt
Chelsea Manning has emerged from seven days of solitary confinement as punishment for having tried to take her own life during a spell of despair related to her treatment as a transgender woman at the hands of her military jailers.
The army private, who is serving 35 years in the harshest sentence meted out to any source of an official government leak in modern history, announced her return to the general population of the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in a tweet.
The Guardian
1: Behind Closed Doors, Hillary Clinton Sympathized With Goldman Sachs Over Financial Reform
EXCERPTS OF HILLARY CLINTON’S previously secret speeches to big banks and trade groups in 2013 and 2014 show her exalting the work of her hosts, hardly a surprise when these groups paid her up to $225,000 an hour to chat them up.
Far from chiding Goldman Sachs for obstructing Democratic proposals for financial reform, Clinton appeared to sympathize with the giant investment bank. At a Goldman Sachs Alternative Investments Symposium in October 2013, Clinton almost apologized for the Dodd-Frank reform bill, explaining that it had to pass “for political reasons,” because “if you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it’s all the fault of Wall Street, you can’t sit idly by and do nothing.”
Clinton added, “And I think the jury is still out on that because it was very difficult to sort of sort through it all.”
The Intercept