Few Westerners, particularly Americans, understand the ugly history behind the Nazi-affiliated movements that have gained substantial power in today’s U.S.-backed Ukrainian regime. Western propaganda has made these right-wing extremists the “good guys” versus the Russian “bad guys” in the Ukraine Conflict, as Jonathan Marshall explains.
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Not only are young voters more likely to support Democrats than Republicans, they are also more likely to support the most left-wing Democrats. In recent polls of voters under 30, self-declared democratic socialist Bernie Sanders beats the more mainstream Hillary Clinton by almost six-to-one.
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Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz has said of the upcoming Concert for Valor:
Armed French and Belgian police are involved in a major operation in Brussels after gunmen wounded four officers during a raid on Tuesday. A manhunt is under way on the streets of Forest district after shots were fired in a raid related to November’s Paris terror attacks. ITV reports: Two suspects in the raids in Brussels are still at large after one was “neutralised”, local media has reported.
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Hans-Georg Maaßen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV), warned that the Islamic State was deliberately planting jihadists among the refugees flowing into Europe, and reported that the number of Salafists in Germany has now risen to 7,900. This is up from 7,000 in 2014 and 5,500 in 2013.