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Bernie Sanders: Soviet socialism 'not my thing' but 'Denmark and ...

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BURLINGTON, Iowa — Sen. Bernie Sanders told an Iowa audience Saturday afternoon that he did not consider himself a Soviet-style socialist ...


Soviet socialism 'not my thing' but 'Denmark and Sweden do very well'

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BURLINGTON, Iowa — Sen. Bernie Sanders told an Iowa audience Saturday afternoon that he did not consider himself a Soviet-style socialist after being asked to clarify the difference between his espoused ideology of democratic socialism and the kind of socialism found in Venezuela.
“I think that countries like Denmark and Sweden do very well. I think it depends on what we mean by socialism. If we mean socialism is what the old Soviet Union was, that’s not my thing,” the Vermont senator said in Burlington.
“If you think of socialism as what China is, that’s not my view. My view is that you have an economy in which you have wealth being created by the private sector, but you have a fair distribution of that wealth, and you make sure the most vulnerable people in this country are doing well,” he added.
Since announcing his second presidential run, videos of Sanders resurfaced of his time in the Soviet city of Yaroslavl, during a self-described “honeymoon” in 1988. Sanders’ wife, Jane, remarked at the time about how people in the Soviet Union aren’t “compartmentalizing their lives into a job and hobbies, it’s all interrelated and all under the banner of community involvement.”
In the 1980s, Sanders also visited Nicaragua, then an ally of the Soviet Union. A number of Soviet satellite countries, including the USSR itself, faced food shortages.
“It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how a bad country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing. In other countries people don’t line up for food: The rich get food and the poor starve to death,” Sanders said in 1985.
In March, former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt criticized Sanders’ praise of socialism on Twitter, writing that Sanders “was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.”

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Where the investigations related to President Trump stand

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Where the investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him:
WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?
Democrats will "never" see President Donald Trump's tax returns, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday, as a new front opened in the confrontation between the administration and Congress.
Mulvaney accused Democrats of engaging in a "political stunt" and wanting "attention" after the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal, asked the IRS to provide six years of Trump's personal tax returns and the returns for some of his businesses.
"That is not going to happen and they know it," Mulvaney told "Fox News Sunday." Asked whether he believe Democrats would ever view the president's returns, Mulvaney replied: "Oh no, never. Nor should they."
Last week, Massachusetts Democrat Neal, one of only three congressional officials authorized to request tax returns, requested Trump's personal and business returns in a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. He asked for returns covering 2013 through 2018. He also asked for the documents in seven days, setting an April 10 deadline.
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DID THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN COLLUDE WITH RUSSIA?
According to special counsel Robert Mueller, the answer is no.
In his letter dated March 24, Attorney General William Barr quotes from Mueller's report saying the investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
The letter does not detail what Mueller learned about a broad range of Trump associates who had Russia-related contacts during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition period. It also doesn't answer why several of those people lied to federal investigators or Congress during the Russia probe.
Barr is confronting concerns that his four-page letter unduly sanitized the full report in Trump's favor, including on the key question of whether the president obstructed justice. House Democrats have approved subpoenas for Mueller's entire report and any exhibits and other underlying evidence that the Justice Department might withhold.
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IS TRUMP OUT OF THE WOODS?
No.
Trump also plays a central role in a separate case in New York, where prosecutors have implicated him in a crime. They say Trump directed his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to make illegal hush-money payments to two women as a way to quash potential sex scandals during the campaign. New York prosecutors also are looking into Trump's inaugural fund.
Congressional investigations also are swirling around the president. Democrats have launched a sweeping probe of Trump, an aggressive investigation that threatens to shadow the president through the 2020 election season.
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Other View: Trump's Anti-press Rhetoric Is Now Codified in a Scary New Russian Law | Editorial

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Anyone who wonders what would be the logical conclusion to President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the free press were he unrestrained need only look to Russia. There, a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin gives him sweeping authority to limit Russian media and quash criticism.
They claim it’s to address what Putin himself now calls “fake news” — which is Trump-speak for negative news. What a testament to Trump’s autocratic instincts: No longer is he merely taking his lead from foreign dictators; now they’re taking their leads from him.
Fake news is a genuine problem on social media. But Trump has promoted a dangerous new definition for it: He cites the phrase any time journalists report something he doesn’t like. Period.
He cried “fake news” to revelations about his porn star payoff. And his role in covering up the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian operative. And his communication of classified information to a Russian diplomat in the White House.
That it was all borne out doesn’t matter to Trump and his base. There’s a tacit understanding that the “fake news” mantra has nothing to do with whether the information is true or false; it’s all about whether it’s good or bad for Trump.
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Trump’s cynical strategy is now official Kremlin policy. The law Putin signed would use fines and jail time to punish distribution of information that shows “blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia.”
Consider the problem with that wording: Information can be accurate and still express “disrespect” for the government; accusing the government of misdeeds is by definition disrespectful, even if true. Yet “disrespect” in itself, according to the Kremlin, is what Putin is calling “fake news.” He has, it seems, adopted the Trumpian definition of the phrase.
Russia has never been a beacon of press freedom, but the new law is onerous even by Russian standards. For the crime of spreading “fake news” — which, again, the Russian government, like Trump, conflates with unpleasant news — one can be fined the equivalent of more than $20,000. Insulting an official (even, presumably, one who richly deserves it) can mean jail time.
How envious Trump must be. Each time he tweets out “Fake news!” or complains about soft libel laws or whines about “Saturday Night Live” making fun of him, this is exactly the kind of solution he seems to yearn for.
Sure, the U.S. Constitution would appear to prohibit it here. But the Constitution would also appear to prohibit profiting from the presidency, obstructing justice and spending money Congress refuses to appropriate — yet Trump’s Republican enablers have let him do it all. Any Americans who aren’t used to saying nice things about Trump might want to start practicing.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report has not been released to the press.
All of this recent news stories about the special counsel investigation’s completion, every single one of them, are jumping to conclusions and speculation based off of a four-page summary released by President Donald Trump’s attorney general.
This is the same attorney general that stated the president cannot be indicted, the special counsel investigation was unconstitutional and the president should not be investigated for obstructing justice — all claims that are wholly untrue.
Remember that US Attorney General William Barr asserted all of those claims before he was nominated by the president to serve as the attorney general.
Think of it this way: Does the special counsel report say whether collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and Russia? Or does it sift through the details of the Trump Tower meeting, Trump’s firing of then FBI Director James Comey and/or other pertinent issues and defer judgment of said details to Congress or the attorney general without subjective commentary?
Exactly: we don’t know.
We don’t know what the report says because we haven’t read it, and neither have the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post or NPR.
The American people deserve to see the full results of this special counsel investigation. If it truly exonerates Trump as the president claims, then the report should be released in as full and pure a form as possible so that we can go forward in an informed and responsible manner.
Or, Sen. Mitch McConnell can just block the full report that supposedly vindicates and exonerates the most controversial American president in living memory after a resolution to release it passes unanimously in the House of Representatives (420-0).
For as much controversy as this investigation has stirred, you would think everyone, regardless of party, would want to see its contents and get to the bottom of what exactly Russia did to our election process ... and how to stop them in 2020. Or at least how to mitigate the damage.
By the way, Russia’s interference into U.S. elections is real. It was confirmed by the special counsel, it was confirmed by Comey and it was confirmed by Barr in his very summary that claims Trump did not collude, collaborate or conspire with the Russian government.
That special counsel investigation, the one at the center of this heated and surreal spectacle, brought indictments against 34 people and three entities.
Five associates of the president were convicted and a sixth, longtime Trump confidante and America’s original political bully pulpit incarnate, Roger Stone, is on his way to trial.
Let’s see the actual report before celebrating that the president wasn’t determined to have committed conspiracy, treason or obstruction of justice after two full years of intense investigation that he fought against the entire way.
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Did Putin have anything to do with the return of Baumel‘s body to Israel?

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There ain‘t no such thing as a free lunch for Russian President Vladimir Putin. If it is Russia that helped bring Zacharia Bauman‘s body, he will sooner or later collect the debt for the assistance that the intelligence services and his army lent to Israel to help locate the body. If Israel has not already paid. More than a hint of Russia‘s involvement in the operation can be found in a statement issued by the Defense Ministry spokesman in Moscow in September 2018, following the downing of a Russian spy plane by a Syrian missile fired near the Iranian air force targets in Syria. The Russian spokesman accused Israel of ingratitude and discovered that his country was helping to search for the bodies of missing IDF soldiers.
Israel refuses to give details on how Baumel‘s body was found so as not to reveal intelligence sources. But the fact that the body was flown to Israel can point to Russian aid. Since the battle in which Baumel and his comrades fell took place in Sultan Yacoub, it can be assumed that the body was found on Lebanese or Syrian soil, and from there it had to be flown through a third country to Israel. The fact that the IDF defines the process of locating and returning the body as an "operation" indicates that this is a military-intelligence operation. For 37 years, the defense and intelligence establishment worked tirelessly to find the bodies of the three missing from Sultan Yacoub. The mission was entrusted to the Mossad, Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet. They asked international leaders and even foreign and Israeli journalists, including the author of this article, to try to obtain information, even the faintest. The Oslo Accords of 1994 allowed Israel to use Yasser Arafat and the PLO, which provided information and findings. There was no stone unturned and millions of dollars spent on exploration, but without any results.
It can be assumed that the great turning point began with the civil war in Syria. The loss of control of Bashar Assad and the central government in Damascus over large areas of the country, dominated by rebel groups, opened new opportunities for Israeli intelligence. According to foreign reports, some of these organizations, assisted by Israeli intelligence, have also been recruited for the mission. About a year ago, the Mossad managed to obtain the watch of Eli Cohen, an Israeli intelligence spy who was hanged in Damascus in 1965.
Now, the combined efforts of Israeli intelligence officials have brought another achievement to Israeli intelligence. The result is mainly humanitarian and important to the family. It is also an encouraging sign for the rest of the families of those missing. It attests to the deep commitment to bring bodies of fighters for burial in Israel. One must not be cynical.
There is no doubt that the IDF and intelligence, whose commitment and conduct is state, did not consider the elections. Their decisions were purely operational, intelligence, and professional. But just as on the eve of the elections in June 1981, the date for the destruction of the nuclear reactor in Iraq was determined on the basis of operational considerations that helped Prime Minister Menachem Begin to be reelected, bringing back the body of Zechariah Baumel to the grave of Israel will not harm Benjamin Netanyahu, who is now on his way to Moscow, even if it has nothing to do with it, to another meeting with Putin.
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“Nationalism, particularly on the far right, is re-emerging,” he told a packed auditorium. “We know where that leads. Europe knows better than anyone where that leads.”
“It leads to conflict, bloodshed and catastrophe,” he said.
"But former President Barack Obama had not come to speak about the past. He came to speak to the future: some 300 young leaders from across Europe, who had gathered for a town hall-style meeting in the German capital.
It did not take long for Mr. Obama to touch on one of his main concerns — and the reason he had come to what he called “the heart of Europe.”
Europe, Mr. Obama suggested, is one of the main battlefields between liberal democracy and far-right populism.
“Nationalism, particularly on the far right, is re-emerging,” he told a packed auditorium. “We know where that leads. Europe knows better than anyone where that leads.”
“It leads to conflict, bloodshed and catastrophe,” he said.
Mr. Obama did not mention his successor’s name. But the contrast with President Trump, issue by issue, was plain."

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Obama Evokes Nostalgia in Germany, but Message Focuses on Future Struggles

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BERLIN — The man whom Chancellor Angela Merkel calls “dear Barack” was back in Berlin on Saturday, his lanky figure and easy smile a reminder for Germans of a different era that ended not so long ago.
But former President Barack Obama had not come to speak about the past. He came to speak to the future: some 300 young leaders from across Europe, who had gathered for a town hall-style meeting in the German capital.
It did not take long for Mr. Obama to touch on one of his main concerns — and the reason he had come to what he called “the heart of Europe.”
Europe, Mr. Obama suggested, is one of the main battlefields between liberal democracy and far-right populism.
“Nationalism, particularly on the far right, is re-emerging,” he told a packed auditorium. “We know where that leads. Europe knows better than anyone where that leads.”
“It leads to conflict, bloodshed and catastrophe,” he said.
Mr. Obama did not mention his successor’s name. But the contrast with President Trump, issue by issue, was plain.
“I believe that climate change is an existential challenge for all of humanity,” Mr. Obama said. “I believe that creating tolerance and respect in our countries is vital,” he added. “I believe deeply in gender equality.”
In a two-hour exchange with his young audience, Mr. Obama frequently returned to the issue of racism and immigration.
“Immigration issues are driving a lot of the political turmoil here in Europe and in my own country,” Mr. Obama said.
But he also urged his audience to view those unsettled by the newcomers with empathy. “We can’t label everyone who is disturbed by migration as racist,” he said.
Mr. Obama has long been popular in Germany. Even before he was elected, in July 2008, 200,000 Berliners flocked to see him speak at the Victory Column in the heart of the city. For many, the affection has not abated.
“Our President,” gushed a front-page headline in the liberal newspaper Tagesspiegel, before listing the policies that had made Germans feel at ease with Mr. Obama: His support for multilateral institutions and his willingness to fight climate change and deal with Iran on freezing its nuclear program.
“Obama felt like a president for the Germans, as if he was made for them,” Tagesspiegel wrote. “The feeling has stayed. The contrast with Donald Trump has even reinforced it.”
In Germany, Mr. Trump’s presidency is increasingly seen as a challenge to America’s commitment to Europe and the values that underpin the Western alliance.
Three times more Germans trust President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Xi Jinping of China to “do the right thing” than Mr. Trump, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center released last September.
Ms. Merkel, Germany’s first female chancellor, and Mr. Obama, America’s first black president, always had a special connection, their aides said. Outsiders in their own countries, they also often agreed on key political issues.
Mr. Trump and Ms. Merkel by contrast, clash both in style and on substance.
The meeting in Berlin comes after similar events in South Africa and smaller gatherings in places including Brazil and Indonesia hosted by the Obama Foundation and is central to Mr. Obama’s post-White House effort to “partner with the next generation” to solve the big problems of the day.
“It was a call to action for the next generation of European leaders and an effort to bring them together at a time when Europe’s social fabric is tearing apart,” said Julianne Smith, a former adviser in the Obama administration who is now a senior fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin.
The foundation’s approach differs from that of groups like the Clinton Foundation or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which seek to address specific issues. Some see in Mr. Obama’s approach a return to his roots as a community organizer — and that also is how many of the young activists, who gave him a standing ovation in Berlin on Saturday, described the ex-president.
“He was here as a former activist, he is a bringer of hope,” said Leonie Eland, a journalist from Germany who was among the 300 young leaders in the room. “He represents the other America, the progressive America and in a way the American dream.”
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US ambassador to Germany receives threats

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Real Reason Trump Wants to Ban Huawei: US Wants to Spy and ...

MishTalk-Mar 17, 2019
The American ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, wrote a letter a letter ... German Chancellor Angela Merkel responded Germany was ...
US Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist
International-New York Times-Mar 17, 2019
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Germany goes ahead with gas pipeline despite US protests

The Local Germany-Mar 28, 2019
Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, anxious to placate Trump, has ... Trump's US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, in January ...
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from Fox News

German politician calls on US Ambassador Richard Grenell to be ...

Fox News-Mar 27, 2019
German politician calls on US Ambassador Richard Grenell to be expelled ... confidant of President Trump, has rankled some German politicians and ... of Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing Christian Democratic Party and ...
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from Financial Times

Nato chief braced for renewed Trump pressure over military spending

Financial Times-Apr 1, 2019
Mr Trump has repeatedly criticised European Nato members for their ... Ms Hutchison said Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, had reassured Mr Trump in a ... The news triggered sharp criticism from Richard Grenell, the US ...
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Trump Dispatches Envoy to Germany to Keep Up the Heat on Huawei

Bloomberg-Mar 22, 2019
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said ... Richard Grenell, who said in a letter earlier this month that Trump's ...
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from Commonweal

Angela Merkel's Legacy

Commonweal-Mar 9, 2019
The general consensus remains that Merkel's days are numbered. .... Trump's new ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has kept up the animus; indeed ... Angela Merkel, who inadvertently provoked Trump to a revealing ...
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from Wall Street Journal

Germany Plans to Renege on Pledge to Raise Military Spending ...

Wall Street Journal-Mar 18, 2019
... defiance by Chancellor Angela Merkel toward President Donald Trump. ... allies,” said the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard A. Grenell.
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from Wall Street Journal

How a Russian Gas Pipeline Is Driving a Wedge Between the US and ...

Wall Street Journal-Mar 10, 2019
President Trump with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White .... U.S. Secretary of Energy RickPerry to complain about Ms. Merkel, said ...
Story image for richard grenell, obama, merkel, trump from TechCentral

Trump ratchets up pressure on Huawei

TechCentral-Mar 22, 2019
Chancellor Angela Merkel's interior minister Horst Seehofer said on ... Richard Grenell, who said in a letter earlier this month that Trump's ...
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Mar 20, 2019 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives the ambassador of U.S. to Germany, Richard Grenell, in Meseberg, Germany July 6, 2018.
Mar 12, 2019 - US Ambassador Richard Grenell has threatened that the US will ... USA Donald Trumpund Angela Merkel (picture-alliance/NurPhoto/C. May ...
US President Donald Trump nominated former UN spokesman Richard Grenell ... and the relationship between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Trump is ...
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Did Germany Request the Removal of US Ambassador Richard Grenell?

<a href="http://Snopes.com" rel="nofollow">Snopes.com</a>-Mar 26, 2019
In March 2019, reports emerged that Richard Grenell, the controversial U.S. ambassador to Germany, was facing mounting calls for President ...
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US ambassador to Germany receives threats

CNN-Mar 14, 2019
A photo of one letter seen by CNN which was sent directly to Richard Grenell in January told him to leave Germany or he would be killed.
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There's more to the story of German 'anger' at Ambassador Richard ...

The Desert Sun-Apr 5, 2019
The March 21 <a href="http://DesertSun.com" rel="nofollow">DesertSun.com</a> story “German politician calls for the expulsion of Palm Springs' Richard Grenell” seems to hinge on a single ...
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Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says ...

Deutsche Welle-Mar 19, 2019
Wolfgang Kubicki, the deputy chairman of the opposition Free Democrats (FDP), said Richard Grenell'srepeated interference in German ...
German politicians want to boot President Trump's ambassador ...
International-New York Daily News-Mar 20, 2019
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Opinion: Richard Grenell — Donald Trump's agitator in Berlin

Deutsche Welle-Mar 26, 2019
We have grown used to his sharp tone, and now United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell wants his voice to be heard yet again: ...
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Call for US envoy to Germany to be sent home over NATO spending row

POLITICO.eu-Mar 19, 2019
The deputy speaker of Germany's Bundestag has called for U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell to be sent home after he criticized Germany over ...
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New Bruneian law vindicates Ambassador Grenell's push to ...

Washington Examiner-Mar 28, 2019
Brunei's final cross into medieval horror shouldn't just draw international condemnation but global action. Richard Grenell, U.S. Ambassador to ...
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Richard Grenell, openly gay US ambassador to Germany, has ...

Metro Weekly-Mar 15, 2019
Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and highest-ranking out LGBTQ person in the Trump administration, has been receiving threats, ...
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Seeing danger in Ambassador Richard Grenell's strong words in ...

The Desert Sun-Mar 24, 2019
The danger here. Richard Grenell was allegedly forced out of Mitt Romney's campaign because of his sexual orientation. Now it seems that the ...

German Critic of US Amb. Ric Grenell Backed Russian Pipeline

Newsmax-Mar 23, 2019
A fierce critic of U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell who is campaigning to have him expelled from Germany has “possible links to lobbying on ...
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US ambassador causes Germany to deport PFLP terrorist from country

The Jerusalem Post-Mar 15, 2019
Richard Grenell told The Jerusalem Post on Friday “It was the right ... from US Ambassador Richard Grenell that was prominently featured in the ...
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Political Criminology - The Outline | Update: Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says FDP deputy leader - Wednesday March 20th, 2019

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Political Criminology - The Outline | Update: Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says FDP deputy leader - Wednesday March 20th, 2019

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Germany: US ambassador Richard Grenell should be expelled, says FDP deputy leader | News | DW

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