China Blasts US for 'Brazen' Human Rights Abuses at Home and Abroad

Deidre Fulton @ Common Dreams - In a report that covers everything from police violence to income inequality to government surveillance, China has blasted the United States for its "grim problems of racial discrimination," use of "cruel tortures indiscriminately," and "terrible human rights record."

The lengthy report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency and issued on Friday in response to U.S. criticism of China's human rights record, says the U.S. is "haunted by spreading guns," while suffering from "serious racial bias...in the police and justice systems."  Read more.