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      Barr reportedly removes national security official ahead of elections

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      The move comes after John Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist, told Congress his office would no longer give verbal briefings on election securityThe US attorney general, William Barr, has reportedly removed the head of a section of the justice department entrusted with ensuring the legality of federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities.The removal of deputy assistant attorney general Brad Wiegmann, first reported by ABC News, has not been explained, but it comes amid rising Democratic concerns that Barr and his justice department will seek to influence the conduct of the November elections in Donald Trump’s favour. Continue reading… More

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      The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump

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      The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be Donald Trump speaks as John Bolton, national security adviser, listens in August 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/EPA John […] More

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      John Bolton: judge declines to block tell-all Trump book

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      Trump says Bolton ‘must pay a very big price for this’ Former national security adviser’s memoir due out Tuesday Donald Trump, left, flanked by national security advisor John Bolton, right, speaks at the White House in April 2018. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images A federal judge has declined to block the publication of a tell-all […] More

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      Why Trump loves the US military – but it doesn't love him back

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      Donald Trump attempted to solidify his bond with the US army on Saturday, delivering the graduation speech to cadets at the United States Military Academy and boasting of a “colossal” $2tn rebuilding of American martial might. Trump’s West Point speech was studiously vapid, with only a modicum of partisan boasting. But the political setting crackled […] More

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      Trump orders fleet of icebreakers and new bases in push for polar resources

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      President orders plan for Arctic and Antarctic in 60 days Military experts sceptical of ‘icebreaker gap’ with Russia A Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker makes its way through the frozen waters of the Gulf of Ob, the Kara Sea. Russia has 40 icebreakers; the US has two. Photograph: Alexander Ryumin/TASS Donald Trump has ordered the construction of […] More

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      Trump's use of the military backfired – but will it back him if he loses? | Robert Reich

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      History teaches that mass protests against oppression can lead either to liberation or brutal repression. This past week, Donald Trump bet his political future on repression. Much of the rest of America, on the other hand, wants to liberate black people from police brutality and centuries of systemic racism. As of this writing, it looks […] More

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      The Inevitability of Tragedy review: a life of Henry Kissinger for our Trumpian times

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      As US-China relations deteriorate, Barry Gewen offers an unsparing biography of a man still at the center of events The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, shakes hands with the former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in November. Photograph: Jason Lee/Pool/EPA Only two of America’s secretaries […] More