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workersolidarity · 11 months

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Watch "Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes Revealed in Secret Cambodia Bombing That Set Stage for Forever Wars" on YouTube

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Democracy Now! on Henry Kissinger's war crimes in Cambodia. Not that one good piece on an easy target like Kissinger makes up for years of unquestioning loyalty to the Democrats' Russiagate narratives, but it's a good piece nonetheless.

Kissinger's war crimes and non-stop attacks on Cambodian civilians helped the rise Pol Pot who used the attacks against civilians to elevate his rise to power under the guise of Marxism Leninism. Though in reality, little that Pol Pot advocated for had any resemblance to Socialism or Marxism Leninism.

Pol Pot would enjoy secret assistance from the US and China, each for their own reasons but largely to hobble growing Vietnamese independence, going on to slaughter some 2 million of his own Cambodian citizens, ruling instead like a Fascist dictator rather than a Revolutionary Working Class figure.

But what galvanized Pol Pot's support, what ultimately saw millions of Cambodians join his quest for power, was the very real, non-stop intentional slaughter of civilians on the border with Vietnam by the United States. The slaughter of Cambodians living in small rural villages who often didn't even have a basic frame of reference for what was happening to them. The barely understood aircraft and here these US military aircraft would fly into their villages and decimate them, killing most villagers and destroying all the buildings and infrastructure they could lay waste to.

This slaughter was a direct result of Henry Kissinger and Nixon's policy to destroy "anything that flies, anything that moves". In other words, a civilian genocide, no different than those ordered by Hitler.

The orders were clear: the US Military divisions in the area adjacent to the Cambodian border were given carte blanche to freely cross into Cambodian territory and bomb out of existence any human activity within measurable range. The complete and wonton slaughter of civilians was approved by Nixon and directed by Kissinger. There is no other word for this but genocide.

Of those who lived through this senseless destruction, they have vivid memory of the sound of US choppers before they'd enter their rural villages and lay waste to anything that moved. The trauma of those days etched into their very souls as they witnessed the deaths of so many of their friends, neighbors and families. They are still haunted to this day by those events that Kissinger so callously approved.

Yet here we are, decades have gone by and Kissinger is fat, happy and healthy in his mansion on his 100th birthday. Never even an ICC investigation launched let alone war crimes prosecuted.

Yet the ICC has the audacity to issue a warrant for the active head of state of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin for imaginary crime of "kidnapping" Ukrainian children to somehow propagandize them against their own people before sending them back to sow the seeds of Ukraine's destruction? Muahahahaha!

An elaborate scheme that would take years at best and affect a small portion of the Eastern Ukrainian population which already consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, and many do in fact want to be a part of the Russian Federation. So yeah, the whole ridiculous thing is just absurd, and really makes just no sense.

The reality is far more mundane and uninteresting, though it's far more positive for the children involved than it is a sinister propaganda effort. Remember, these same people who always claim the Russians are supposedly performing these elaborate propaganda schemes designed to trap unsuspecting wayward westerners and turn them against their government, they're also waging an information war and having far more success in that effort than anything the Russians are doing. Huge majorities of Westerners still support Ukraine, believe this entire episode has been uninstigated, no Nazis in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin somehow controls the internet.

Instead, as it turns out, these centers for children who live on or near the frontlines of the SMO zone are designed to help these children temporarily escape the ravages of war and spend time with other children their own age doing activities that children enjoy like music, the arts, and survivalist classes. Not only is this completely mundane and uninteresting, it's really actually a pretty positive program. I don't know about you, but getting these children as far away from the frontlines as possible, even if only temporarily, can only be a good thing for these students who are often displaced, have lost family members, a home, or an apartment. Sometimes they don't have a home to go back to, and anything seems better than shelters and refugee camps, especially if they get to enjoy activities, learn new skills, do some schooling, or learn and develop their skills with a musical instrument.

Most of these camps run anywhere from a few days to a few weeks and the children are promptly returned to their parents who've all given their permissions for their children to go, hoping to keep them safe and happy during these hard times.

Even if these children were receiving some kind of Russian propaganda at some point during these trips, and there's absolutely zero evidence for that, how would that negate the positivity of getting them away from the frontlines and keeping them safe and happy?

And how exactly do you justify this ICC Warrant when Kissinger is celebrating his 100th birthday free, happy, healthy, and rich beyond most workers' imaginations? When will Kissinger be indicted by the ICC?

Of course the answer is obvious: it will NEVER happen because the ICC is NOT an international body of Justice, it is in fact no more than a tool of Western Imperialism and operates as such.

It isn't designed to safeguard any kind of Principles of Justice or anything like that, it only exists to pursue the enemies of Western Imperialism and leave its victims incapable of operating outside their home countries or face prosecutions and incarceration. Effectively making it impossible for the victim to organize internationally. So if you have a charismatic Leftist leader in your country, and he crosses the US or one of the European powers, say by Nationalizing the oil & gas industry; if they choose to use the ICC against you, you no longer have the freedom to conduct your country's business in the international arena, handicapping your diplomacy, trade negotiations and banking system interactions, since you're also likely being sanctioned at that point.

And so the ICC is simply another tool of Western Imperialism. Kissinger will never face consequences for his war crimes but his victims will remember their lost loved ones for the rest of their lives and they will pass along those memories to their grandchildren.

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rthko · 5 months

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"Americans can't deal with death unless they own it. If they own it, they will celebrate it, like in the air force base museum of the atomic bomb, where whole families of camera-toting tourists gather after the required i.d. security checks. In the gray-carpeted rooms, they walk the mazes of portable screens and platforms and enlarged photographs of death and incineration as seen from a discreet distance. The distance is far enough so you can't see the bodies, only the architecture."

David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives, 1991

#with the united states' role in genocide the death of henry kissinger and world AIDS day i keep thinking about this passage

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genuinelyshallow · 5 months

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Kissinger had a horrifying list of crimes against many countries, Vietnam and Cambodia and many more. Words aren't enough to describe the horrors.

Though, one of which I find is not talked about much is the ones against Palestine.

The bastard is one of the main reasons why Israel was able to do all of those genocides

Suffer in Hell, Henry

#henry kissinger #palestine #free palestine #palestinian lives matter #gaza #genocide in gaza #Suffer in hell

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wearenotjustnumbers2 · 5 months

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A little girl lost her father by israeli air strikes in the middle of Gaza today 1.12.23

I really hoped I wouldn't have to go back to sharing videos of victims of genocide in Gaza, but Israel is bombing again and we have to share the footage or the world would still be blind. Thanksgiving is over so the genocide is not on pause anymore. Do you reckon the next "pause" would be on Christmas? Hospitals are not functioning, and there are plenty of hospitals that were invaded and taken by Israeli soldiers in the north. This is catastrophic. We need a permanent ceasefire for God's sake.

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ahaura · 5 months

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#REST IN PISS YOUR GENOCIDAL WAR CRIMINAL PIECE OF SHIT YOU WONT BE MISSED!#henry kissinger #<- GET ABSOLUTELY FUCKED #uspol #📁.zip

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hussyknee · 5 months

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I've taken down the Henry Kissinger booklet sold by Jacobin because I've since found out the organisation is a piece of shit that argued against lockdowns and praised eugenicist COVID protocols that's led to the genocide of disabled people in the countries that implemented them. Disabled genocide is every bit as devastating as ethnic, even though it tends to be quieter. If your leftist praxis makes you horseshoe around to neoliberalism and fascism, you're not only worthless, you're actively as harmful. I regret I may have motivated anyone to give these people money, and I apologise for promoting them.

Instead, you can download The Trials of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens from my gdrive (feel free to rummage around in it). I leave you with this:

#henry kissinger #free palestine #death to america #death to israel #us politics #decolonization #colonialism #imperialism #western imperialism #white supremacy #us war crimes #genocide #social justice #knee of huss #books #twitter #jacobin

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anarchistin · 11 months

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Kissinger’s diplomatic conniving led to or enabled slaughters around the globe. As he blows out all those candles, let’s call the roll.

#henry kissinger #white supremacy #racism #imperialism #genocide #war criminal

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his-heart-hymns · 5 months

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Why henry Kissinger is a War Criminal?

Henry Kissinger oversaw the illegal and secret carpet bombing of Cambodia.Under his leadership USA dropped an unfathomable amount of bombs on Cambodia.And Cambodia wasn't even directly involved in the Vietnam war.More than 100000 civilians were killed and millions were displaced.And a few years later he got a Nobel peace prize.😭😭😭

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focusonmy · 5 months

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Keep talking, posting, reblogging about Palestine. Your little deeds matter. Don't let them tire you.

#palestine #free gaza #gaza genocide #gaza strip #israel is a terrorist state #social justice #free palestine #imperialism #palestine resources #palestinian genocide #henry kissinger #jerusalem #yemen

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alantudykstan · 5 months

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HEY ASSHOLES!!!

QUIT IT WITH THE “RIVER TO THE SEA” BULLSHIT!

It’s antisemitic and it helps no one. Don’t claim to be tolerant and then continue doing something when people say it makes them uncomfortable.

Wanna take it a step further? Stop posting bullshit conspiracy theories and Hamas propaganda, because they are NOT sweet little rebels who treat their hostages nicely. Additionally you could try actually listening to Jews for once.

Damnit I’m actually gonna post this, there’s nothing to hold me back. Well I hope my inbox is flooded with screeches of anger tomorrow morning.