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...“Justice Thomas was the sole member of the Supreme Court who would have allowed records from Trump, Meadows, et al to be withheld from House Jan 6 Committee,” Kaine said on Twitter....
...People in Trump’s orbit are fond of comparing coronavirus to the 9/11 attacks. George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks....
...James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington et al were politicians long before presidents shouted in all caps from Twitter accounts....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...said Daniel Byman, professor of security studies at Georgetown University....
...In 2004, he and Mr Comey threatened to resign after Alberto Gonzales, White House counsel to George W Bush, tried to persuade John Ashcroft, the attorney-general who was sick in hospital, to approve a spying...
...“They have systematically incited against Christians and blamed them entirely for the coup and for the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood,” says Mokhtar Awad, research fellow at George Washington University’...
...Corruption diverts precious government resources away from schools, hospitals and other essential services, and locks people into poverty....
...(Guardian) Isis ‘minister’ death The jihadi group has admitted that its “minister” of war, Abu Omar al-Shishani, has been killed in combat....
..., professor emeritus at the UK’s Sheffield university....
...… The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot, by Rebecca Mead, Granta, RRP£16.99/Crown, RRP$25 New Yorker writer Mead mixes biography, memoir and a close reading of George Eliot’s classic novel...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Women have not always supported the Democrats. In 2000, they were divided between George W. Bush and Al Gore, only turning away from the Republican during the Iraq war....
...Later, as a student at Delhi University, my own education in literature and history was largely shaped by the books from the same library. My uncle read V.S. Pritchett and A.J.P. Taylor....
...Ronald Reagan did the same, creating a new class of voters called “Reagan Democrats”. George W....
...Just weeks after he stepped down from Al Jazeera, Khanfar delivered the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture, at City University in London....
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Al Gore was widely ridiculed for his exasperated expressions and audible sighs in 2000, while Nixon famously came off badly in 1960, in part because he looked physically weak after a spell in hospital....
...“The role of large tribes has increased dramatically in recent years,” explains Nathan Brown, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush. America, we are better than these last eight years....
...There is no sign of Naveed in the jails, hospitals or morgues of Islamabad, nor any trace of his DNA....
...Sadly President George W. Bush did not; he had been to the hospital often enough, for photo opportunities with wounded GIs, and noticed nothing....
...This appears a common state of mind in current rightwing circles, viz Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al. An honourable man would have resigned by now....
...to the relocation of industry to China, et al?...
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