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Donald Rumsfeld: neocon hawk and cheerleader for war
LINDSEY GERMAN looks back at the career of US Republican Donald Rumsfeld, who has died aged 88
US warmonger Donald Rumsfeld with Tony Blair in 2002, ahead of their invasion of Iraq
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
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After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
“THE evil that men do lives after them,” says Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
It is a fitting epitaph for Donald Rumsfeld, who has died in the US aged 88.
Rumsfeld was secretary of defence in George W Bush’s presidency from 2001-06.
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