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Donald Rumsfeld is the former US secretary of defence, part of administration that took US to an illegal war against Iraq. He was a founder and active member of the [[Project for the New American Century]] and a signatory to the 1998 PNAC letter urging Bill Clinton to bring about "regime change" in Iraq. | Donald Rumsfeld is the former US secretary of defence, part of administration that took US to an illegal war against Iraq. He was a founder and active member of the [[Project for the New American Century]] and a signatory to the 1998 PNAC letter urging Bill Clinton to bring about "regime change" in Iraq. | ||
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| + | Rumsfeld is president of the [[Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation]], which has given grants to a handful of US organisations involved in the Islamophobia network, alongside a range of other think tanks and groups. | ||
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Latest revision as of 06:13, 15 November 2016
Donald Rumsfeld is the former US secretary of defence, part of administration that took US to an illegal war against Iraq. He was a founder and active member of the Project for the New American Century and a signatory to the 1998 PNAC letter urging Bill Clinton to bring about "regime change" in Iraq.
Philanthropy
Rumsfeld is president of the Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation, which has given grants to a handful of US organisations involved in the Islamophobia network, alongside a range of other think tanks and groups.
Affiliations
External resources
Books
- Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, Scribner, Feb. 2007, (ISBN-10: 1416535748).
Articles
- Bill Berkowitz, Rumsfeld Redeploys to Right-Wing Think Tank, Inter Press Service, 13 September 2007
- John Pilger, The Liberal War on Democracy, CommonDreams, 15 March 2007.
- Errol Morris, The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld, New York Times, 25-28 March 2014.
