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Kissinger is Finally Dead! Goodbye to a War Criminal . . . and the war in Ukraine muddles along (G&R 261)

Kissinger is Finally Dead! Goodbye to a War Criminal . . . and the war in Ukraine muddles along (G&R 261)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


Kissinger is Finally Dead! Goodbye to a War Criminal . . . and the war in Ukraine muddles along (G&R 261)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

ratings:
Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Dec 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Henry Kissinger died last week after 100 years of death and destruction. More than most, he embodied the foreign policy establishment. Kissinger was an architect of liberal post-war foreign policy and perpetrator of many wars, coups and body counts. He advised every president from JFK to Joe Biden. While many liberals reviled him,
he mentored many policy makers in Democratic administrations including Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

In our latest episode, we talk about Kissinger's life and legacy. We talk about Vietnam and Chile and how the liberal world order still functions today as it did in the 60s and 70s when Kissinger was at his peak.

We also talked about the continuing bloodshed in Ukraine, more evidence that the U.S. and others scuttled peace talks in the past, and Biden's obsession with wars abroad rather than taking care of problems inside the U.S.

We also get into the radical history of the week with a couple examples of anti-Kissingers (including Abby Hoffman and Mario Savio). We close with tribute to the Pogues' late front man Shane MacGowan.
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Outro- "The Body of an American" by the Pogues


Links//
+ Rolling Stone: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100
(https://bit.ly/3uObUFm)
+NY Times: Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped U.S. Cold War History, Dies at
100(https://bit.ly/3GwwBYZ)

G&R describing the crimes of Henry Kissinger//
 + G&R: The 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War
(https://bit.ly/49XZhaN)
+ G&R: Chile's 9/11 50 Years Later (https://bit.ly/412GaZ6)

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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott
Released:
Dec 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.