David Alpher — Why the US has become fertile ground for right-wing militants

Storm brewing.

The Raw Story
Why the US has become fertile ground for right-wing militants
David Alpher | Adjunct Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

AP — Harry Reid Calls Backers Of Nevada Ranchers 'Domestic Terrorists'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling armed backers of a Nevada rancher "domestic terrorists" for using guns in a grazing rights battle with the federal Bureau of Land Management....

Reid says a federal task force is being formed to resolve the dispute.

The Huffington Post

Harry Reid Calls Backers Of Nevada Ranchers 'Domestic Terrorists'

Associated Press

David Edwards — Former sheriff: Women ‘need to be the first ones shot’ by feds in Bundy Ranch standoff (via Raw Story )

Former sheriff: Women ‘need to be the first ones shot’ by feds in Bundy Ranch standoff (via Raw Story )

A former Arizona sheriff who has taken the side of cattle ranchers in Nevada said this week that he would have allowed his own wife and daughters to be shot as human shields because it would look bad for the federal government on television. In a statement…

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Reuters — Oleksander Muzychko, Ukrainian Far-Right Leader, Shot Dead By Police

Conflicting reports.

The World Post
Oleksander Muzychko, Ukrainian Far-Right Leader, Shot Dead By Police
Reuters

Comment on France lifted from billyblog

Yanai from Paris says:

Monday, March 24, 2014 at 9:04

Sadly enough, what your blog predicted years ago has now come true in France: the far-right National Front has come out particularly high in the municipal polls taking place today. This is not to be underestimated as the National Front does not normally fare well in municipal elections, where the two-round system favours traditional parties like the Parti Socialiste or the conservatives. But worse is yet to come, according to every opinion poll, when the European elections take place at the end of May, the proportional system will help push the Front National to 25% of the ballot (if not beyond), thereby BECOMING THE FIRST PARTY OF FRENCH POLITICS.

Reading your narrative of the events which took place more than twenty years ago, I cannot help but think that things have not changed at all: mainstream politicians are ready to sacrifice their own people in the name of crazy beliefs or objectives: currency pegs, single market, European integration etc.

Twenty years since, and I cannot even say that we are stuck in the same quagmire: no growth, no perspective of growth, this is actually much worse!