Tag: Henry Kissinger

Did Henry Kissinger Hate the Jews?

The former group spanned the political spectrum, from the democratic socialists Irving Howe and Michael Walzer to neoconservatives such as Seymour Martin Lipset and Norman Podhoretz. There was no room for disagreement between the two poles, however, because the only issue discussed was Israel’s security and how to best ensure it. Kissinger posed as Israel’s […]

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Accurately Remembering How Henry Kissinger’s Foreign Policy Produced A Series Of Destructive Outcomes

NewsOne Featured Video (original caption) U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Jean Nguza Karl-I-Bond, Zairian Foreign Minister, on April 28, 1976, in Kinshasa, Zaire. | Source: CILO / Getty Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023, at age 100, exercised more than 50 years of influence on American foreign policy. I am a […]

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Henry Kissinger Only Cared About One Thing

Far from blemishing his record, Kissinger’s willingness to inflict remorseless violence in the service of an abstract conception of U.S. grand strategy was precisely his appeal. Kissinger’s crimes—a nonexhaustive list would include the illegal carpet-bombings of Cambodia and Laos, the extermination campaigns in Bangladesh and East Timor, and the support for right-wing military juntas from […]

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Widely Loathed Ex-Nixon Guy Henry Kissinger Finally Died At 100 And People Have…Thoughts

Henry Kissinger spent a full century, plus a few months more for bad behavior, on this planet, but he left his mark. As Secretary of State under two Republican presidents, he helped topple Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. He approved of the secret carpet bombing of Cambodia, killing at least 50,000 civilians. He and […]

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