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Texas, California prefer socialism to capitalism, Sanders to Biden, new poll says Democratic voters in America’s two most populous states have indicated they actually prefer socialism to capitalism in a new poll that also showed Bernie Sanders taking over Joe Biden ahead of crucial vote. The latest poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of the CBS says that more than half of Democratic voters in California and Texas – two states with the biggest population that also award the most delegates for the primaries –  harbor “positive view” of socialism. Support for the traditional foundation of the US economy was particularly weak in Texas, where only 37 percent said they saw it as a preferred option. Not surprisingly, most of them also plan to give their vot...

Unfadable courage: Putin, Shoigu commemorate paratroopers who heroically died in battle against extremists two decades ago Twenty years after heroic but vastly outnumbered Pskov paratroopers bravely battled jihadist forces in the Russian republic of Chechnya, President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu have honored the fallen. “Today… we commemorate the brave paratroopers, pay honors to their courage and their heroic deed,” Putin said as he reviewed the troops of the Pskov Airborne Division. He and Shoigu arrived in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov, the hometown of Russia’s oldest and most elite airborne division, to lay flowers at a memorial for those who fell in Russia’s second anti-terrorism campaign in the early 2000s. The...

‘Apartheid-like conditions’: Former UNGA president slams Trump-Netanyahu ‘deal of the century’ plan for Palestine Trump’s plan to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will bring anything but peace to the region, former Danish FM and UNGA President Mogens Lykketoft told RT, as it only cements apartheid-like conditions for the Palestinians. Lykketoft is among a large group of former high-ranking European officials who published an open letter warning about the dangers of the Trump plan and urging the EU to firmly reject any US attempts to somehow implement it. The plan was pompously unveiled by US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu last month, but it was immediately condemned by Palestinians and many countries worldwide. While c...