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  • Part One: Kissinger

    Part One: Kissinger

    · Behind the Bastards

    We begin our epic six part series on Henry Kissinger: the Forest Gump of war crimes.

    FOOTNOTES:

    https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-1923-1968-Idealist-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594206538 https://www.amazon.com/Kissinger-Biography-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743286979 https://www.amazon.com/Kissingers-Shadow-Americas-Controversial-Statesman/dp/1627794492 https://www.amazon.com/Henry-Kissinger-American-Power-Political/dp/0809095378 https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/145552297X https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Genocide/dp/0307744620 https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabombing_oct06.pdf https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/khmer-rouge-cambodian-genocide-united-states/ https://www.history.com/news/nixon-war-powers-act-vietnam-war-cambodia http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Nixon%20Administration/Nixon%200958.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-myth-of-henry-kissinger https://etan.org/issues/kissinger.htm https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/kissingers-green-light-suharto/ https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/news/ford-and-kissinger-had-bigger-problems-we-will-understand-and-will-not.html https://newrepublic.com/article/78704/yet-another-disgrace-east-timor-genocide https://www.history.com/news/the-last-hours-of-the-nixon-presidency-40-years-ago https://www.tni.org/en/article/september-the-cruelest-month-in-chile https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/genocide-us-cant-remember-bangladesh-cant-forget-180961490/ https://www.thedailystar.net/views/opinion/news/the-kissinger-yahya-plot-against-bangladeshs-liberation-2124321 https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kissinger-nixon-tape-declassified-how-us-saved-west-pakistan-as-india-liberated-bangladesh-2655016 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/23/unholy-alliances-3 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/henry-kissinger-jimmy-carter-chile-214603/ https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/16/archives/rhodesian-response-to-kissinger-hinged-on-an-ambiguity.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/10/13/kissinger-has-words-of-sympathy-for-ian-smith/6bed019f-2125-4027-9a91-2070de8609c6/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/angola-civil-war-1.htm https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB487/ https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/22/2/58/95278/We-Are-Not-a-Nonproliferation-Agency-Henry https://www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/DannerHenryKissinger.pdf https://nymag.com/news/people/24750/index3.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/12/kissinger-vs-rumsfeld.html https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/1018/101896.opin.column.1.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/14/us-kurdish-relationship-history-syria-turkey-betrayal-kissinger/ https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=applebaum_award https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/04/07/1975-background-to-betrayal/aa973065-ea5e-4270-8cf9-02361307073c/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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  • EP64: Paul Kagame

    EP64: Paul Kagame

    · The Hated and the Dead

    Paul Kagame has been President of Rwanda since 2000. He can be blamed more than any other person for the unsatisfactory way in which the 1994 Rwandan Genocide has been remembered, both inside Rwanda and across the World.

    Kagame has centralised power around himself, painting himself as the man who stopped the terrible events of 1994 in their tracks, and telling Rwandans that only he can bring stability to a country that in most of our lifetimes tore itself apart in the worst way imaginable.

    As my guest today tells us, this is not only fatuous, but worse, the West believes Kagame. Kagame is seen as a reliable ally of the governments in Washington and London. The West has chosen not to delve into the conflicting narratives surrounding the genocide, and lazily believes the one that suits its interests best: that Kagame, whilst a little rough around the edges, is a consummate stabilitocrat. He wouldn’t hurt a fly; a person perhaps, but as long as he doesn’t present problems for them, they’re willing to turn the other cheek.

    My guest for today’s conversation is Michela Wrong, a British journalist and author who focuses on Africa, previously working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC and the Financial Times. Her recent book, Do Not Disturb, details the terrible lengths to which Kagame has gone to remain in power.

  • Lawfare Archive: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End

    Lawfare Archive: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End"

    · The Lawfare Podcast

    From October 22, 2016: This week, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End.” He argues that we’ve moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses, rather than a focus on preventing war’s outbreak in the first place. And in his view, the human rights community shares culpability for this problem. It’s an issue that will be of great consequence as the next president takes office amidst U.S. involvement in numerous ongoing military interventions across the globe. 

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