With war criminals growing like weeds in the good old U.S., we fix our gaze on the most prolific Henry Kissinger. Want to remove a democratically elected leader who threatens to upend the privileges of the country’s elites? Henry Kissinger is your boy. As he did in Chile in 1973, where he oversaw a military coup that led to the deaths of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Commander in Chief General Rene Schneider. Or how about his cheerleading the atrocities of the Argentine military junta with these words of encouragement — “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly.” Genocide was another one of Henry’s favorite things. And he got plenty of opportunity to hone his craft while he supported genocides in Cambodia, East Timor and Bangladesh. And let’s not forget the civil wars in South Africa, the coups and death squads throughout Latin America. All of them came with Kissinger’s seal of approval. Difficult to imagine but most estimate his murder spree extinguished the lives of three million around the world. To read more of this chronicle of an American official whose depravities have become the play book for US actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela and countless other countries who have felt the heavy hand of US militarism, check out “A US War Criminal Bites the Dust”
