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Pompeo the poisoner
Trump’s right-hand man had a distinctly and disturbingly US rise to political power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
A GRIPPING article by the New Yorker’s Susan B Glasser tells us everything we needed to know about Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s secretary of state. And it tells us a lot about US conservatism along the way.
Glasser’s article is online — Google her name and you will find it. It is well worth reading the whole thing.
But I want to pick out three big points. Pompeo is Trump’s secretary of state. This is equivalent to our foreign secretary. In the US, the secretary of state is often seen as the most important government member after the president.
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