The cold war has concluded nearly everywhere and is not going to restart. Dmitri Medvedev-Vladimir Putin's Russia is often disgruntled, and seeking to expand its influence, but no longer aggressively ideological; China is likely to continue behaving, as the current financial crisis demonstrates...
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On 29 July 2008, President George W Bush
appeared at the Lincoln Electric Company in Euclid, Ohio, where he spoke about
energy and then asked the audience for questions. The opportunity for people in
a small town in the midwest to pose a question directly to the president of the
United States is ...
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Isn't it time to draw the line when Mary Beard, whom I greatly
admire, inanely supposes on Women's Hour
that Sarah Palin deserved ‘half a feminist vote'? Which half: what feminist?
What on earth did she mean?
There have been various attempts to equip with arguments
American Republic...
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10:55 minutes (10 MB)Intro - Bush admin as a regime, rather than administration. He goes on to describe the some of the personalities involved, the mis-management of the Iraq project, and the illegitimacy of the foundation of Bush govt on 2000 election.
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