I've realized over the past 24 hours just how many of my fellow Americans do not know about the millions of violent deaths than #Kissinger was responsible for, across the world.
And that is reinforced by the fawning tributes played by our mainstream media.
This, and @theintercept's excellent articles are some of the few places that you will read about this man's #warcrimes this week - while outlets like Reuters continue to gaslight us.
Apathie dit en général pas mal de merde. Et puis, ponctuellement, parfois, paf, éclair de génie... Il va finir par se faire dissoudre par Darmalsain lui 😆 « #Kissinger était un salaud ! » #Quotidien#JeanMichelApathie
My grandma, in #Bangladesh lived, despite #Kissinger, and now she’s survived him, the young woman wrote, or words to that effect.
It was a people’s obituary of a sort for Kissinger, a particularly bitter one. Its extraordinary power perhaps lies in the fact that Bangladesh’s foreign minister soon enough, also expressed criticism of the man who’s described as one of #America’s most powerful secretaries of state. https://www.rashmee.com/henry-kissinger-a-peoples-obituary-from-bangladesh/
Not to distract from the literal millions of deaths in Southeast Asia he's responsible for, but: #Kissinger also exerted ruinous influence in Angola, Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), and South Africa.
This piece is a summary of Kissinger's history with Africa published around his centennial in May; the retrospectives I've seen today, even those which frankly discuss his crimes elsewhere in the world, do not mention Africa:
I'm starting to see some criticism of the gleeful celebration of #Kissinger's death. Y'all, just shut the fuck up. He was the most horrible of the horrible. We're gonna celebrate and you're going to drag your glum asses somewhere else. We get to have this.
Thinking of #Trump and #Kissinger, I have no patience anymore with the idea villains don't realize they're #evil. BULLSHIT.
Because usually they do, and they like the power that gives them, being willing to do things lesser, "decent" people would feel bad about doing. They believe it's their lack of conscience that MAKES them better than others, that conscience is just a hangup, at best resulting from naivete. #henrykissinger
#Kissinger’s Bombing Campaign Likely #Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Cambodians and Set the Path for the Ravages of the Khmer Rouge
The bombing resulted in the direct #deaths of hundreds of thousands of #Cambodians. With the #us keeping the bombings secret at the time comprehensive data and documentation are limited. But estimates on the number of deaths range from as few as 24,000 to as many as a million. Most estimates put the death toll in the hundreds of thousands
He was many terrible things, but when I found out he was a dead bootlegger too... I didn't think I could have any more contempt for the man... but now I do.
(Husband is the real dead head, but if you marry one you learn... he has been cracking up about this clip for 24 hours... )
Holy shit! White House PR knocking it out of the park with their statement about #kissinger . I fully expected they'd do the normal platitudes when an elder statesman dies, but this statement is brutally cold blooded (within the boundaries of what they're going to be permitted to say politically).
"I send our condolences to ... all those who loved him."
The tea had spilled before it started steeping, the toast had jumped off my plate before I could add jam and the milk smelled rather off despite being brand new. At that point I began to feel my morning was being actively sabotaged rather than being a collection of clumsiness on my part.
I checked my luck reserves and found an IOU. I braced, hoping for some balance soon.
The morning after, I and many others awoke to wonderful tidings.
A tortured and deadly legacy: Henry Kissinger and realpolitik in U.S. foreign policy.
@TheConversationUS reports: "When Kissinger entered government as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, he espoused a narrow perspective of the national interest ... primarily centered on maximizing the economic and military power of the United States."