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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
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
“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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