Новости за 08.03.2018

Lissa Lucas, a progressive Democrat running for the West Virginia House of Delegates, captured the national spotlight February 9. At a public hearing on House Bill 4268, which would open up private land for oil and gas production, Lucas read aloud a list of industry donations to delegates supporting the bill. Security guards interrupted her allotted 105 seconds and dragged her out.

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the most powerful human rights organizations in the world, are declining to endorse a new political push to end U.S. participation in the catastrophic Saudi-led war on Yemen.