2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis final message, from one of those affected by Henry Kissinger's "liberal" worldview:
(These are the last words Victor ever wrote, after being arrested for singing truth by the Kissinger imposed military junta that replaced the democratic socialist government led by Salvador Allende in September of 1973-Chile's 9/11.....the poem ends abruptly, as the soldiers take Victor away to beat and torture him to death-a task they spent two days completing. he was also making a tune for the song at the moment the guards lead him off).
(on edit: The words are being read on the recording by Adrian Mitchell, who would later be the Poet Laureate of Britain).
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)They did the same thing to Che Guevara and Salvador Allende!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Don't forget Kissinger REVERSED JFK's policies and for that matter LBJ's anti apartheid policies under Nixon
This one is documented too....... talk about a racist asshole.
Kissinger's 'Tar Baby' memo: http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=1215
He also wanted to bomb Cuba for their support in Angola.
BBC : Henry Kissinger 'considered Cuba air strikes' in 1976
http://www.bbc.com/news/29441281
ISUGRADIA
(2,571 posts)Knr
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)during the attempted coups in Ecuador and Guatemala, and the successful coup in Honduras while she was SoS. Amy Goodman interviewed ousted Honduran president Zelaya who believes America's right wing hawks and the CIA are responsible. It certainly all sounds familiar in a 1970's sorta way.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/28/clinton_the_coup_amid_protests_in
polly7
(20,582 posts)But if Senator McCain was really concerned about physical intimidation, perhaps he should have conjured up the memory of the gentle Chilean singer/songwriter Victor Jara. After Kissinger facilitated the September 11, 1973 coup against Salvador Allende that brought the ruthless Augusto Pinochet to power, Victor Jara and 5,000 others were rounded up in Chiles National Stadium. Jaras hands were smashed and his nails torn off; the sadistic guards then ordered him to play his guitar. Jara was later found dumped on the street, his dead body riddled with gunshot wounds and signs of torture.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=edit&forum=1002&thread=6158064
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)If Hillary Clintons latest book, Hard Choices, was not an obvious enough sign of her presidential aspirations, then her recent Washington Post review of Henry Kissingers new book, World Order, seems to have sealed the deal. In it, Clinton builds on her already hawkish tenure as secretary of state to prove she can bang the drums of war harder than President Obama and that she can embrace a diplomatic approach so iron-fisted as to put her in the same league as a man that Christopher Hitchens called a war criminal.
Clinton begins by asserting that Kissingers view of the world is in line with hers and Obamas because it largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administrations effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century. She continues in this same vein later, proudly stating that what comes through clearly in this new book is a conviction that we, and President Obama, share: a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order.
Kissinger was Richard Nixons national security adviser and secretary of statea position he continued under President Gerald Ford. There have been books written (Hitchens, Gary J. Bass, Lubna Z. Qureshi), a film made by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney based on Hitchens book, and countless articles (such as this one), published on the subject of Kissingers criminality during his policymaking years. Yet Clinton calls him a friend whose counsel she relied upon while she served as secretary of state under Obama from 2009 to 2013. She makes no mention of how her opinion of him has obviously evolved from the critical views she held in her youth.
It appears as though Clinton worries about appearing soft on foreign policy. She explains how, as secretary of state, she us[ed] all the tools of foreign policy, even those sometimes dismissed as soft. Her review sends a clear message that she can be just as tough as Kissinger, and tougher than Obama.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)tremendously sad