Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill

This is a good example of who the bad guys are and whom they portray as being bad!
Look at which side of the line  your foot is on, it may be straddling the line.
Countries that use "Homeland" usually use the military against it's citizens!
(Nazi Germany).. which leaders work for their citizens and which against?



Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
Published: January 16, 2016

Source: The Nation

Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
wtromp@operamail.com (WT)

Recruits of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion Azov regiment take part in tests after training at the Azov Battalion base, in Kiev, Ukraine, November 28, 2015. (Photo by STR / NurPhoto)
In mid-December 2015, Congress passed a 2,000-plus-page omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2016. Both parties were quick to declare victory after the passage of the $1.8 trillion package. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters “we feel good about the outcome, primarily because we got a compromise budget agreement that fought off a wide variety of ideological riders.” The office of House Speaker Paul J. Ryan touted the bill’s “64 billion for overseas contingency operations” for, among other things, assisting ”European countries facing Russian aggression.”
It would be safe to assume that one of the European countries which would stand to benefit from the omnibus measure—designed, in part, to combat “Russian aggression”—would be Ukraine, which has already, according to the White House, received $2 billion in loan guarantees and nearly $760 million in “security, programmatic, and technical assistance” since February 2014.
Yet some have expressed concern that some of this aid has made its way into the hands of neo-Nazi groups, such as the Azov Battalion. Last summer the Daily Beast published an interview by the journalists Will Cathcart and Joseph Epstein in which a member of the Azov battalion spoke about “his battalion’s experience with U.S. trainers and U.S. volunteers quite fondly, even mentioning U.S. volunteers engineers and medics that are still currently assisting them.”

Read More...

Share This Article...