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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 05:22 AM Feb 2016

This 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).

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This final message, from one of those affected by Henry Kissinger's "liberal" worldview: (Original Post) Ken Burch Feb 2016 OP
What they did to Victor Jara was disgusting and it shook Phil Ochs to the core Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #1
K&R Mbrow Feb 2016 #2
KnR SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #3
For those not familiar with Victor Jara OldRedneck Feb 2016 #4
Kissinger, Apartheid, Cuba and Steven Biko Ichingcarpenter Feb 2016 #5
Knr ISUGRADIA Feb 2016 #6
I've wondered if Kissinger was advising Hillary... Oilwellian Feb 2016 #7
So sad. polly7 Feb 2016 #8
Unbelievable UglyGreed Feb 2016 #9
No words Hydra Feb 2016 #10
Hillary and Kissinger EndElectoral Feb 2016 #11
Powerful and excruciatingly painful. Kicked and Recced Arazi Feb 2016 #12
k&r Electric Monk Feb 2016 #13
 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
1. What they did to Victor Jara was disgusting and it shook Phil Ochs to the core
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:09 AM
Feb 2016

They did the same thing to Che Guevara and Salvador Allende!

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
5. Kissinger, Apartheid, Cuba and Steven Biko
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 08:35 AM
Feb 2016

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

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
7. I've wondered if Kissinger was advising Hillary...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:20 PM
Feb 2016

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)
8. So sad.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:24 PM
Feb 2016
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 Chile’s National Stadium. Jara’s 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

EndElectoral

(4,213 posts)
11. Hillary and Kissinger
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:20 PM
Feb 2016
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/12/hand-hand-kissinger-review-hillary-clintons-review

If Hillary Clinton’s latest book, “Hard Choices,” was not an obvious enough sign of her presidential aspirations, then her recent Washington Post review of Henry Kissinger’s 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 Kissinger’s view of the world is in line with hers and Obama’s because it “largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s 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 Nixon’s national security adviser and secretary of state—a 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 Kissinger’s 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.
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