May 27, 2012

Tony Blair's Decline and Fall Is Now Complete

Nick Cohen, The Guardian

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Tony Blair's willingness to prop up the brutal Kazakhstan regime shames the one-time champion of democracy.

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TAGGED: Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan, Tony Blair, UK

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