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  Henry Kissinger page
BBC Documentary - The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger, about the genocide in Cambodia perpetrated by the U.S.-supported Pol Pot regime
Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon and Destruction of Cambodia
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Kissinger/HKissinger.html   (329 words)

  
  identity theory | the narrative thread - christopher hitchens
Well, Henry Kissinger, partly because of the implosion of that regime, was for its closing years, the president as far as foreign and defense and security policy was concerned.
Kissinger, you were in the room with the Indonesian General Staff, the General Staff of the Indonesian dictatorship, on the day the order for their invasion of East Timor was given.
Henry Kissinger is one of the great exemplars of celebrity culture, he was one of the founders of the idea of celebrity culture.
www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum22.html   (8852 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - New York 2002 - The Trials of Kissinger
He states boldly that Kissinger should be tried for war crimes, and his arguments are examined by filmmakers Gibney and Jarecki in their new documentary.
Hitchens, who wrote a book with the same title, focuses his case against Kissinger based on his role in the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970, the secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, and the sale of U.S. weapons to Indonesia, which were used in the East Timor massacre of 1975.
But Henry Kissinger is the poster child of the pursuit of accountability for Americans in international law.
www.hrw.org /iff/2002/ny/trials.html   (1181 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On Sept. 13, 1989, the day Henry Kissinger ended his tenure as a paid analyst for ABC News, he became the newest member of CBS's board of directors.
Kissinger's ties to the TV networks have always been close; no other "expert" is as ubiquitous on TV, commenting on what U.S. policy should be toward countries from Eastern Europe to the Middle East to Latin America.
In a column alluding to FAIR's study that found Kissinger to be Nightline's most frequent guest, the Washington Post's Richard Cohen (8/29/89) sounded an urgent appeal: "Will someone please ask Henry Kissinger the 'C' question?" The "C" stands for conflict of interest.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=1528&printer_friendly=1   (301 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger - war criminal on the run? - World's alleged number one state terrorist at large - Responsible for the ...
Henry Kissinger gave his approval to the "dirty war" in Argentina in the 1970s in which up to 30,000 people were killed, according to newly declassified US state department documents.
Kissinger is also facing a passel of legal troubles related to the 1970-1973 rule in Chile of Salvador Allende, the first socialist president elected there in a popular vote, and U.S. support for an army coup against him that installed a military dictatorship that ruled until 1990.
Kissinger's position, of course, is different: He thinks he acted for the good of the US to defend the security and the values of his country.
www.bilderberg.org /kissing.htm   (19042 words)

  
 The American Experience | Nixon's China Game | People & Events | Henry A. Kissinger
An unlikely celebrity who drew fire from across the political spectrum, Henry Kissinger is widely recognized as one of the great American statesmen of the twentieth century.
Kissinger returned home in 1947 to a brilliant academic career at Harvard University, where he became a professor of government and international affairs in 1957.
Kissinger served as a part-time foreign policy adviser to the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and was the main intellectual force behind JFK’s "flexible response" strategy, which advocated maintaining both conventional and nuclear forces to respond to Communist aggression, rather than resorting to threats of massive nuclear retaliation.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/china/peopleevents/pande02.html   (663 words)

  
 The secret life of Henry Kissinger
Whatever one thinks of Kissinger's deeds on a substantive level, the "most favored expert" status that the U.S. media have bestowed on him is odd, if only because of his demonstrated record of contempt for an independent press and the free flow of information upon which it depends.
Kissinger, of course, was hardly opposed to leaks in principle; he spent a good portion of his working days spoon-feeding such influential denizens of the Washington press corps as Time's Hugh Sidey and CBS's Marvin Kalb.
Kissinger was upset with his subordinates on two counts: first, with their conclusion that the Indonesians had broken the law (and thereby made suspension of additional aid politically necessary on Capitol Hill); second, and most important, that they had dared notify Kissinger of this in a cable sent before his return to Washington.
www.etan.org /news/kissinger/secret.htm   (2577 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Pursuing the Past -- February 20, 2001
HENRY KISSINGER: As far as we were concerned in the White House, this thing ended on October 15th.
Kissinger insisted he had told the CIA to cut off support and that the documents indicating otherwise are misleading.
HENRY KISSINGER: I don't think this is what one administration should do to its predecessor because when you have 23,000 documents -- many that are capable of some many interpretations -- this is not the way to judge history.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/latin_america/jan-june01/chile_2-20.html   (2051 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger
Kissinger is now useless as a statesman or envoy for even the most benign tasks of State, thanks to his now all-too-apparent monied interests.
During a state visit to Indonesia, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reassure dictator Suharto that his impending invasion of East Timor will not be opposed by the United States.
Kissinger is later forced to withdraw once it is realized exactly how much conflict of interest he has accumulated in the last several years of consultation work.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/henry-kissinger   (579 words)

  
 AlterNet: Kissinger and bin Laden: Takes One To Know One
Henry Kissinger has contempt for the south, which would include all Islamic countries, as inconsequential players in world history.
Henry Kissinger was overthrowing governments and aiding and abetting the murder of civilians to protect us.
But the message that Kissinger's appointment sends the rest of the world is so poisonous and antithetical to our announced intention of promoting justice and democracy that I wish President Bush had exercised a bit more wisdom before taking this drastic step.
www.alternet.org /story/14681   (869 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger - Biography
Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975.
Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943.
From 1943 to 1946 Dr. Kissinger served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and from 1946 to 1949 was a captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html   (334 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Kissinger is on film in repeated denial of any involvement, but the paper record shows him managing the affair from afar and trying to maintain secrecy.
Kissinger and Nixon went on to cement a three-way Cold-War stalemate that was actually a model of diplomacy, and lasted until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Critics of The Trials of Henry Kissinger can use the argument that fighting a cold war is messy, and we were lucky to have leaders that knew they had to use secrecy to get the job done, as 'the people' would never have understood.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=7462   (1055 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger News
Richard Avedon on photographing Henry Kissinger: 'A photographic portrait is...
Richard Avedon on photographing Henry Kissinger : "A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as...
Henry Kissinger, who as Richard Nixon's secretary of state learned something about secret plans, went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to argue that Bush, too, has such a proposal.
www.topix.net /who/henry-kissinger   (710 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger WAR CRIMES
Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalized a United States citizen on June 19, 1943.
Kissinger is married to the former Nancy Maginnes and is the father of two children [Elizabeth and David] by a previous marriage.
Henry and Nancy Kissinger have a house in Kent Connecticut.
www.zpub.com /un/wanted-hkiss.html   (1103 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger - Biography
Henry Alfred Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs which he first assumed in 1969 until 1975.
Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943.
From 1943 to 1946 Dr. Kissinger served in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps and from 1946 to 1949 was a captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve.
www.nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1973/kissinger-bio.html   (334 words)

  
 The Memory Hole > The Photos Kissinger Doesn't Want You to See   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The photographs of Kissinger [taken by Adriana Lorete], seen pondering affairs at a trade conference in Brazil, originally appeared on the front page of Jornal do Brasil, a major Rio de Janeiro daily, on November 13, 1992.
A few years later, Kissinger's lawyer sent Jornal do Brasil a letter saying the former secretary of state would file a lawsuit for damages if the newspaper did not immediately cease and desist from selling the photos.
One purchaser of the photos was the advertising agency Woolward and Partners, which bought the pictures of Kissinger for use in an ad for computer equipment.
www.thememoryhole.org /pol/kissinger-nose.htm   (178 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger: jeden "z nejvýznačnějších mozků", anebo "válečný zločinec"?
Kissinger prý "dokazuje, že patří k nemnoha nejvyšším americkým představitelům, kteří mají i dlouho po odchodu ze své funkce co říct nejenom k politice USA, ale i k dalším problémům současného i budoucího světa," píše recenzent.
Když byl loni v květnu Henry Kissinger v Paříži, kde bydlel v hotelu Ritz, navštívili ho příslušníci pařížské kriminální policie a odevzdali mu obsílku.
Zase to protiřečilo všemu, co kdy Kissinger řekl či napsal.
www.blisty.cz /2002/8/9/art11215.html   (1023 words)

  
 Henry Kissinger aprobó la represion en Argentina y la invasión de Timor Oriental por parte de Indonesia
Kissinger fue ase- sor de seguridad nacional del presidente Richard Nixon, luego su secretario de Estado y finalmente desempeñó ese mismo cargo en la administración de Gerald Ford, tras la renuncia de Nixon en agosto de 1974 por el escándalo de Watergate.
Kissinger fue llamado a declarar en varios juicios presentados por víctimas o fa miliares de víc- timas de la tortura, las desapariciones y los asesinatos a manos de regímenes militares de Améri-ca Latina, incluida Argentina, a mediados de los años setenta.
Kissinger expresó reiteradamente al general Pino-chet el respaldo de Washington a su junta y al "derrocamiento del gobierno de tendencia comunista", según un memorando de la reunión obtenido y publicado hace 18 meses por el Ar- chivo de Seguridad Nacional.
www.rebelion.org /ddhh/kissinger280302.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Henry Kissinger - astrology chart
While Kissinger privately referred to Nixon as "meatball mind" and "a basket case," he became the foremost American figure in negotiations to end the Viet Nam War during the Nixon administration.
In the mid '80s, Kissinger was granted a five-year $350,000 loan from Goldman Sachs and three other banks to open his own consulting firm of "Kissinger Associates," with offices in New York and Washington, where he is a "statesman for hire" and purveys strategic advice to private corporations.
Henry Kissinger, a man renowned for sponsoring covert operations and keeping secrets, has been hired to find out how Al Qaeda was so successful in keeping their covert operations a secret.
www.astrodatabank.com /NM/KissingerHenry.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | Henry A. Kissinger
When the Bush administration chose Kissinger to head the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks, observers charged that he had insurmountable conflicts of interest deriving from the work of his firm Kissinger Associates.
The Washington Post reported that in his resignation letter to the president, Kissinger wrote that the decision to quit was "a moment of disappointment for me. For over half a century, I have never refused to respond to the call from a president.
Reported the Post, “[Kissinger] said that ‘in the end’ he would have abided by whatever financial disclosure rules were applied to other members of the commission.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1251   (1072 words)

  
 Nixon Fellowship Launches at Event with Henry Kissinger
On January 17, Whittier College welcomed former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to campus for the formal inauguration of a new student initiative, the Richard M. Nixon Fellowship.
Kissinger’s critical role bringing about these events and his personal relationship with Richard Nixon made him an optimal speaker for the public launch of the Fellowship Program.
Kissinger’s appearance at the fundraiser, combined with an anonymous large gift made prior to the event, generated more than $140K-- enough to endow the program and begin implementation as early as summer 2007.
www.whittier.edu /pr/Nixon%20Fellowship%20&%20Kissinger.html   (477 words)

  
 Still mixing it after all these years? Henry Kissinger can run, but he can’t hide. | August 2002 | New ...
Henry Kissinger can run, but he can’t hide.
The case against him was recently boosted by the publication of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, journalist Christopher Hitchens’; masterful account of the man’s felonies.
Last April, Kissinger was about to fly to London when he discovered that a Spanish judge and a French magistrate were both requesting permission from Britain to question him about ‘Operation Condor’ – a 1970s plan by seven South American dictatorships to wipe out leftist opposition in Latin America with behind-the-scenes support from Washington.
www.newint.org /columns/worldbeaters/2002/08/01/henry-kissinger   (1370 words)

  
 Christopher Reilly: Henry Kissinger, Wanted Man
While Kissinger was speaking in Britain at the UK's Institute of Directors annual conference on April 24, Tatchell attempted to have him arrested for committing war crimes under the Geneva Conventions Act.
Kissinger was also responsible for the "premeditated, wholesale destruction of the environment using chemical defoliants such as Agent Orange," as Tatchell wrote in The Guardian.
Kissinger seems to have forgotten that most administrations are not responsible for tens of thousands of dead innocents.
www.counterpunch.com /reilly0429.html   (1250 words)

  
 The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It is telling how enthralled these directors were with their alternative cult of personality that they should try to bring down Kissinger with their own charismatic nutbar — Michael Tigar.
Never mind that Tigar's story has nothing to do with Kissinger, except to suggest this is the time to nail him.
I half expected a stuttering Charlton Heston to appear and defend Kissinger, although Alexander Haig is a good substitute.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0326306   (566 words)

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