War Without Reason
Henry Kissinger dismissed facts and data in favor of grandiose notions of moral power.
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Power for Capital’s Sake
The 1984 Kissinger Commission shows that American intervention is a bipartisan project.
All of Kissinger’s Friends
Last night's Democratic debate showed how thoroughly liberals have renounced the anti-interventionist tradition.
Henry in South Asia
Kissinger and the violent suppression of Bangladesh.
Could Henry Kissinger Possess the Pee Tape?
Many suspect Putin is blackmailing Trump. But could there be a different culprit? A plausible theory of mind-boggling confusion.
Henry in the Gulf
On the “cynical operation” of Kissinger’s Kurdish affair.
Elizabeth Holmes Swindled Henry Kissinger, and We’re Not Complaining
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is a living embodiment of what’s wrong with the Silicon Valley venture capital sinkhole. But we can’t get too mad at her for defrauding some of the worst rich people in the world.
Henry in Angola
Kissinger’s covert-ops misadventure with apartheid South Africa.
Brussels, Dec. 12, 1975
NATO leaders from across the political spectrum found common cause opposing Eurocommunism.
The Last Cold War Was Disastrous — We Shouldn’t Welcome Another
A new book uses poor history to urge the ruthless containment of America’s rivals — skirting Washington’s past failures and the millions of civilian dead.
The Apologia Olympics
Even before his corpse was cold, the rehabilitation of Henry Kissinger had begun.
He Got the Story
Seymour Hersh has gotten a few things wrong over his career. But his memoir shows a reporter with broad and brave consistency, exposing one atrocity and cover-up by the forces of American imperial power after another.
Seymour Hersh on Daniel Ellsberg, the Man Who Exposed the Pentagon Papers
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh writes about his 50-year relationship with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon Papers and exposed the scope of US crimes in Southeast Asia.
Salvador Allende Was in Washington’s Crosshairs
Fifty years on, more details on the US role in overthrowing Salvador Allende’s socialist government are being uncovered. Among the latest revelations: Richard Nixon knew that the 1973 coup was going to happen days before it did.
Making Victims Pay
The Trump administration is demanding that Cambodia pay the United States for the brutal, illegal war the US waged there.
The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program — it helped to engineer it.
Money Talks
The University of Chicago's opposition to safe spaces isn't about free speech. It's about fundraising.
Richard Pipes, Prosecutor of the Russian Revolution
Relentless anticommunism defined the late Richard Pipes as more propagandist than historian.
There Was an Iron Wall in Gaza
Addicted to territorial aggrandizement and encircled by enemies of its own making, Israel has freed itself of all moral constraints.