The only overweight 100 year old I have ever seen.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Nov 30 2023 13:11 utc | 4

Next up: an epic spectacle of state-sponsored media madness, as reflexive hagiography is layered over an incomparable genocidaire. Quite a silk-purse-from-sow’s-ear procedure! Imagine if it were your job to write this eulogy, without breaking any rules of the rules-based order… There are times I’m mighty glad I did not chose such a career path.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 30 2023 13:17 utc | 6

“Never forget September 11th”
I luv that one (snark).
How the heck can you remember
when you don’t know what the F happened?
Never forget that after September 11th
the guilty party fought tooth and nail to have no investigation whatsoever.
No investigation – remember that!
The 9/11 Families raised hell and finally the Cheney/Bush administration relented.
And what did they do?
Remember
They formed an investigation committee with
Henry Kissinger as the chairman.
Remember that!
The 9/11 Families knew Henry was doing business with the Saudis
so they smelled a rat
and raised hell again.
The Cheney/Bush admin found another rat to lead the investigation
one without a clear known history of being scum.
“Never forget September 11th
and Henry Kissinger”

Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2023 13:22 utc | 8

Amen.
Luckily he and Nix-on skipped India for their pre-WEF project and found money starved dictator Mao ready to offer Chinese slave labor plus law bending to establish thousands of new factories. No unions allowed at all, no pensions to be paid etc: super profits.
By the way, China also has its protected sexual predator celebraties like Jeffrey Epstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEPTCQUEI0
There was a difference: Epstein’s victims were under-aged city girls while Song Chang Mu went for young countryside women. Another difference: abused women are taken serious the West, India and Russia, not at all in China.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 30 2023 13:36 utc | 10

Extract from one Lyndon Larouche Editorial december 1 2006
“there is little of the evil in U.S. foreign policy which cannot be traced back to the influence of Kissinger, as a leading representative of the Anglo-Dutch imperial outlook, on the American body-politic.
In addition to his Middle East policy, which was dedicated to maintaining a permanent state of warfare between various groups in the region, Kissinger in 1974 put in place the infamous National Security Study Memorandum 200, which declared that it was in the U.S. “strategic interest” to contain the population growth of states which controlled raw materials to which the West wanted unrestricted access—a policy that has amounted to outright genocide against minerals-rich African nations, among others.
This policy is still in effect today!
Perhaps most notable in summarizing the intent of Kissinger’s policy was his May 10, 1982 speech at Chatham House, London, where he took direct aim at the American “idealism” of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and declared himself in favor of the Churchillian approach—that of a Hobbesian (each against all) imperial balance of power.”
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2006/3348henrys_hell.html

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 30 2023 13:48 utc | 12

From the Ukraine open thread, William Gruff | Nov 30 2023 12:02 utc | 102
Kissinger died without being tried and convicted of crimes against humanity. How unfortunate. Now the stain of his crimes is indelibly part of America
Yeah, bad enough that the nobel committee awarded Henry the peace prize after he carpet bombed Cambodia, they awarded Obama the prize before he expanded imperial aggression. Before he dressed his disposition matrix in legal jargon, thus granting the commander-in-chief the power of life and death.
And apparently the whole sordid affair has been rechristened under Joe as the PPM Process. A sort of minority report where foreknowledge is provided by psychotics.

Posted by: john | Nov 30 2023 14:15 utc | 14

“If there is a hell, it waits for them not us”
——Frank Zappa

Posted by: Chevrus | Nov 30 2023 14:30 utc | 16

On the other hand Kissinger was among the first to realize an off-ramp was going to be necessary in Ukraine. He was attacked by Zelensky suggesting it.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 30 2023 14:37 utc | 18

Should Henry Kissinger be reviled, hated and loathed for what he was, or what he did?
Necessity is the mother of invention, and if HK did not exist, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Given especially that Washington was in a perceived existential struggle with the Red bloc then.
Kissinger exceeded the brief with the most horrific campaigns, notably in South East Asia; part of the job but likely also his own ruthless persona.
On a light note, Arnaud Bertrand posted a short video of Mao absolutely rocked by statuesque Nancy Kissinger beside her hubby.
Recalls the joke about ex wife of short billionaire who replies to friend’s observation about her former Napoleon as he struts by with new squeeze.
‘ Oh, he is very tall when he stands on his WALLET’.
Power and money tower over everything in this world.

Posted by: LittleWhiteCabbage | Nov 30 2023 14:49 utc | 20

Concerning Kissingers mentors within the British Round Table context
Quote
In 1943, Kissinger’s plans to become an accountant were interrupted by the draft, and he was assigned, due to his German-language skills, to the AIp1y Specialized Training Program that was designed to creat(1 a core of military personnel for occupied Germany.
Eventually, the program was disbanded, and he was transferred to the 84th Infantry Division at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, where he met the first of several mentors: Fritz Kraemer.
Kraemer was in the Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) at Camp Claiborne, and although of low rank, he was actually in an important position to recruit future intelligence operatives.
He could get Kissinger safe jobs, all the while lecturing him in history, particularly that of the Holy Alliance.
Kraemer himself had studied at the London School of Economics,and, upon his return to Germany, he had joined the same German National Party out of which came Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s economics minister, the man who designed the concentration camps as a slave labor system.
Kraemer referred to Henry affectionately as “my little Jew”.
By outlook and training, Kraemer was an Anglophile to
the core. Thus was Kissinger drawn into the orbit of British intelligence, via Kraemer, before the end of World War II.
On Kraemer’s insistence, Kissinger applied to Harvard and was accepted.
There he met his second mentor, William Yandell Elliott, the head of Harvard’s Government Department and a deep-dyed British agent.
Elliott tutored him, Pierre Trudeau, and McGeorge Bundy as “adopted sons”.
For Kissinger, Elliott set up the International Summer Seminars to which aspiring leaders from around the world were brought for recruitment and training.
unquote
Read the document to gain an appreciation of the extent to which the British elites were aspiring to change the US constitution.
A British agent since his youth by Scott Thompson
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1995/eirv22n38-19950922/eirv22n38-19950922_027-a_british_agent_since_his_youth.pdf

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 30 2023 14:52 utc | 22

I was initially surprised by Rolling Stone‘s having a piece that’s highly critical of HK, given that I recall the publication’s being a cheerleader for policies of the World Economic Forum and other entities that intend harm to most of humanity. Then I recognized its familiar tactic of drawing attention to the government’s sins of decades ago, in order to distract the reader from what the present administration is doing.

Posted by: David Levin | Nov 30 2023 14:55 utc | 24

As I told my son when Madeline Albright died,
“Don’t worry Massimo, she’s with Adolf Hitler now.”

Posted by: GuardYourHumanity | Nov 30 2023 15:01 utc | 26

One notes that when the ruling class was pushing to subsidize (no taxes, below-market political risk insurance, etc) the export of America’s industrial base to communist China, Kissinger was vigorously writing Op-eds in the New York Times etc. saying we HAD to do this. Never mind that the United States strength as an industrial power was based on protectionism, never mind that ‘free’ trade has only ever brought ruin to industrialized economies, and never mind that Kissinger was paid millions by communist China via “Kissinger Associates.”
I mean, a retired high government official being paid by a foreign power for his ‘expertise’ (secret knowledge?) and to flack for them, in less progressive eras we would have called that treason. But now it’s just business.

Posted by: TG | Nov 30 2023 15:10 utc | 28

Villain that he was, Kissinger’s actions were at least tempered by considerations of reality. Some years ago when Trump derangement syndrome was in full bloom he said (quoting from memory here) that ‘a foreign policy that consists solely of vilification of Russia isn’t much of a policy.’ Nowadays the people running Western foreign policy are both genocidal AND delusional.

Posted by: Mike R | Nov 30 2023 15:13 utc | 30

“Don’t worry Massimo, she’s with Adolf Hitler now.”
Posted by: GuardYourHumanity | Nov 30 2023 15:01 utc | 29
There’s another way of looking at that, lol.

Posted by: jeffry | Nov 30 2023 15:16 utc | 32

“On the other hand Kissinger was among the first to realize an off-ramp was going to be necessary in Ukraine. He was attacked by Zelensky suggesting it.”
Posted by: Jonathan W | Nov 30 2023 14:37 utc | 19
The old Demon knew his geopolitics.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 15:27 utc | 34

It’s a great disgrace for the Western world that Kissinger wasn’t dragged into an international court and subjected to the humiliation of a trial, conviction and a lifetime of imprisonment at hard labour. However, we can take some small comfort in that he lived long enough to see the goal of his life’s work, the US Empire begin to collapse under the idiotic leadership of these inferior inheritors. Kissinger make a completely reasonable suggestion at the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine/NATO and then watching all the political parasites in the West heap scorn and loathing on him until he did a complete 180 and pledged his enteral loyalty to project Ukraine, watching him squirm while giving interviews after that was so satisfying, he knew what he was now recommending was stupid, disastrous and would torch his reputation for strategic brilliance in the long term. But he was too weak willed to resist the pressure to conform, compare Kissinger’s actions to his hero Otto Von Bismarck’s who always stood up against stupid plans by an incompetent Wilhelm II and ultimately resigned rather than confirm to stupidity. But then, Kissinger always was a poor man’s Bismarck and his final actions show why he will never emerged from Bismarch’s great looming shadow

Posted by: Kadath | Nov 30 2023 15:30 utc | 36

Sean the leprechaun @14:54
You nailed it. Adrenochrome. Being a tad higher up the scrotumpole, Devious David Rottenfeller kicked the bucket at the ripe old age of 101. Betcha $oro$ gets his daily dose.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2023 15:31 utc | 38

@Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2023 13:22 utc | 8
Curious nexus found.
I wrote of Henry Kissinger and the 9/11 Commission.
After the protests of the 9/11 Families had Henry Kissinger removed from the Commission
Henry was replaced by Philip Zelikow.
Nexus: We, at the bar, have been discussing the 60th anni of the JFK assassination.
Zelikow had been involved in a very public dispute over the JFK tapes.
Their transcription by Zelikow really messed with history.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/22023
And of course historical accuracy of the 9/11 Commission is a well known stain upon Washington.

Shenon ignores this nuance, perhaps because it clashes with his major theme, which is a very dramatic one: that the commission’s ability to report the truth was neutered and neutralized by an executive director, Philip Zelikow, who was allowed to serve despite deep conflicts-of-interest, as well as surreptitious ties to the White House, including with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. Although there are other revelations, the book’s axis of criticism is almost entirely about Zelikow, a University of Virginia professor and former director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Shenon’s book is a blistering critique of Zelikow’s performance, and a not-very-veiled criticism of the commission co-chairmen (Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton) who hired him in the first place, and then allowed Zelikow to stay on even after his multi-faceted conflicts-of-interest were fully revealed under oath.

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/47379
There is another curious smaller nexus. In 1999 Philip Zelikow had written (***who commissioned him?!***) a lengthy Review Essay
about Henry Kissinger’s latest book.

Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2023 15:32 utc | 40

@Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 15:32 utc | 43
I’ll second that (or is it third?), that the US was fertile ground
for producing a Henry Kissinger.
“A Henry Kissinger
by any other name
would smell as sweet.”
“The Devil keeps a spare”
– unknown
If Hitler had died in WWI
there was a known spare –
Julius Streicher.

Posted by: librul | Nov 30 2023 15:41 utc | 42

Sorry, screwed up the blockquote mechanism again.
Posted by: Honzo | Nov 30 2023 14:54 utc | 26
No probs; for once huge block letters were accompanied by huge thoughts; usually the louder the print the weaker the voice.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 15:57 utc | 44

To paraphrase an expression from a video game I’m keen on, “May his corpse rot where it fell forever.”
Yes b, a true ghoul; literally steeped in the blood of millions.

Posted by: robjira | Nov 30 2023 16:07 utc | 46

Today the US has no diplomats worthy to carry Kissinger’s jockstrap.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 13:16 utc | 5
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You have a point there canuck, Dr. Killinger, jockstrap, petrodollars, and all. Sure, he was always a diplomat when it came to right-wing dictators, war criminals, and rogue Presidents, perhaps he just respected their preferred methods of dealing with the unruly working-class and peasants; just kill them all. If you see something charming about that, then perhaps you should reevaluate your own ideas. As for me, I spit on his grave.
You admit that Dr. Killinger is a war criminal, a person who was responsible for the deaths of about a million and a half men, women, and children; largely workers and peasants in countries all around the world: Why not just stop there?

Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:12 utc | 48

His character came through, when I saw him eat his own boogers.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Nov 30 2023 16:27 utc | 50

Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:12 utc | 48
Agree, but I would not take the time to spit on him.
Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 30 2023 16:16 utc | 49
But you obviously have enough time to comment about, “not taking the time to spit on him.”

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 16:38 utc | 52

if the US would have had rapprochement with the USSR rather than China it would have hurt the ‘financial class’ helped the middle class which is a good thing in the long run and between US/Europe/USSR versus China in the long-term China would have been contained.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 15:52 utc | 43
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Tell me exactly why you want to “contain” China? You mentioned it in at least two comments on this string? As I understand it, the US beef with China is that it is a near pier economic competitor with the US on the international market: Isn’t competition the very essence of capitalism? Perhaps global monopolies, like the MIC don’t really compete because they own both parties in Congress, but their workers sure as hell do, because under capitalism workers must compete to make a living and therefore every worker’s hand must be on every other worker’s throat.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:41 utc | 54

“Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system” – H. Kissinger
That’s the crux of the current global crisis. Kissinger was one of the architects of the American Empire, and everything he did was justified in terms of enhancing American geopolitical power. Anyone believing in a morality separate from “Is it good for us?” gets nowhere near senior positions in the American foreign policy establishment. You wonder how neocons can survive one abysmal failure after another, well there’s the reason. If you’re not willing to kill innocent people wholesale for Uncle Sam, you’re not qualified for the job.
Of course, other countries don’t see things the way America sees them. So, American Empire implies constant war against the rest of the world. During the Cold War, there was an equilibrium of sorts. In 2023, things are much more dynamic. Sad to say, but I still think WW3 is in our future. Jesus blessed the peacemakers, but the people that run American foreign policy are not fans of him.

Posted by: Olly Garch | Nov 30 2023 16:43 utc | 56

Kissinger leading the opening to China was a follow on to the ending of the Reserve Currency gold standard in 1971.
Kissinger was one of the tools in The Great Game society is playing. The God Of Mammon elite made a bet that China could be corrupted by the West, at least the core finance part, and they are losing that bet after 50+ years.
When you think about Kissinger, think about the one China policy that the West agreed to and is still being forced to adhere to. Kissinger and the evil he projected from his life represents the “best” the West could throw at the rising China/Russia axis.
Kissinger represents the failure of the evil he projected of empire in his lifetime. It is that failure of acting as a bully in a sharing world that he will be remembered for….the end of barbaric empire.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2023 16:53 utc | 58

Ed, think you need to separate your emotion from your reason.
Was Kissinger an evil man; yes, I said that already.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 16:33 utc | 51
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My emotions are exactly as they should be. I suggest you go on You-Tube and find a video called “IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pibqRPi8Bo
I disagree with you about how great of a diplomat Dr. Killinger was, I think he and Nixon were a fucking disaster for the US, the World, and the international working class (including the US working class). So I will dance on his grave just before I piss on it.

Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:56 utc | 60

One down…so many more to go!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 30 2023 17:04 utc | 62

For those who missed it and are now catching up with history, Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Verso ©2001 ISBN 1-85984-398-0, has the bulk of the late’s crimes against humanity, peace and prosperity (except for som); not a lot of love lost between author and subject but no suites for defamation either. Engrossing reading yet. Should have been used as basis for ICC warrant for arrest but the bird has flown the cage.

Posted by: Formerly T-Bear | Nov 30 2023 17:15 utc | 64

I am inconsolable that he died a peaceful death. He’s always made me wish hell was for real.

Posted by: DuchessAndBob | Nov 30 2023 17:19 utc | 66

I will always think of him as Dr Strangelove….

Posted by: Gerry Bell | Nov 30 2023 17:23 utc | 68

This ghoul was a favorite of Xi Jinping, who had him as a guest for his 100th birthday. Kissinger’s realpolitik reasoning that allowed him to back dictators like Pinochet was the same mindset Trump used to embrace Xi, Kim Jong-Un and Putin, which this website praised.
Posted by: Inkan1969 | Nov 30 2023 17:22 utc | 67
Nice try, Inky. The Chinese hold their feeling in check and continue diplomacy for all imperialist scum so as to more efficiently defeat them, which they will.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 30 2023 17:33 utc | 70

I disagree with you about how great of a diplomat Dr. Killinger was, I think he and Nixon were a fucking disaster for the US, the World, and the international working class (including the US working class). So I will dance on his grave just before I piss on it.
Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:56 utc | 60
Hear, hear! And really, you’re a diplomat in the US post WW2, you’ve got tremendous wealth and military strength. He obviously wasn’t an absolute idiot, but that’s as far as I’d go.
There is a huge industry that dresses up these imperial mediocrities as geniuses and saints. So take what you’ve read with a grain of salt and remember the big picture.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 30 2023 17:38 utc | 72

Continuing the depopulation effort started by his late husband, Nancy Kissinger has asked in a statement that instead of flowers, people who want to say goodbye to the most famous diplomat of recent decades send donations to the Animal Medical Center veterinary hospital in New York. ( source Vanity Fair )
Bold mine….
Not a single penny for the Gaza hospitals or genocided Palestinians, ruined Argentinians, nor any other seriously damnified people by his husband´s criminal policies…
This couple, married for 50 years, had no children, instead, as it seems, they had dogs…
Is it of any surprise that this kind of “people” treat and kill children around the world in mass as if they were stray dogs?
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Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 17:46 utc | 74

Meanwhile, our bar is filled with righteous, intelligent, interesting elders who don’t get anything close to real healthcare.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 30 2023 17:13 utc | 63
more like Death Care. Who wants that.
If people would take care of their health. They would not need expensive healthcare. Somebody once said said “Your body is a temple”. Instead of treating it as such. People destroy their temples in every way possible then cry out for expensive pills and procedures to repair.
Big Pharma and big AG are joined at the hip. One produces food that makes you sick, and the other jumps up and says “We got a pill for that” Eat hearty!

Posted by: Golddigger | Nov 30 2023 17:47 utc | 76

Ghost of Mosgovy @17:01
Thanks for citing Kissinger’s role in the WEF. Klaus Schwab was to Killinger, a schoolboy on his lap…his creature. Now, though, it is time to celebrate the final reward for his services by unseen forces of dire intent. Yes, the Evil Dwarf is no longer haunting the halls of power…except, perhaps from the 4th Dimension as a spectre.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2023 17:58 utc | 78

His late wife was working for the Rockefellers when she met her…

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 18:03 utc | 80

How Kissinger sahped “democracy” in Spain…

NEWSPAPER LIBRARY | THE SPANISH NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
López Rodo gave Kissinger a document that established the new rules of Spain’s relationship with the United States, which made clear Carrero Blanco’s intention for Spain to be a nuclear power and his frontal opposition to the renegotiation of the agreement on the North American military bases in our country.
Kissinger told López Rodo: “Spain’s threats are always important.”
The next day, D. Luis was assassinated in Madrid and the following year Juan Carlos de Borbón signed the renewal and expansion of the US bases.

https://t.me/espiritutemplario/69682
Through so called “Islero Project”, Spain, in joint cooperation with De Gaulle´s successor in France, related to nuclear technology, aimed at using production of Plutonio at nuclear facility “Vandellós I” ( which later curiously suffered an accident and whose reactor was sealed since then…) to try to produce a nuclear weapon with whcih the sovereignty of Spain would have been secured and would had never ended as it is today, being as it has been an imperial power, as vasal and de facto anglosaxon colony…
Those were the terms shown by the Spabish envoy to Kissinger and which took next day with the life of then PM of Spain Admiral Carrero Blanco.
This is how Spain, and the rest of Europe, lost their sovereignty, by state terrorism and installing spies and foreign agents at the helms of European governments once sovereignists of any fur eliminated through the past years.

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 18:23 utc | 82

fyi
https://twitter.com/freckle_red/status/1730114690616045828
Should we put a stake through his heart
you know
just to be sure?

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 30 2023 18:32 utc | 84

@Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2023 17:58 utc | 78
Yeah, is of little comfort that a 100 year old dies, the mnore evil he could be.
What is more important is what those who remain alive do, and more important even, why nobody answers my question possed to William Gruff at other thread when he mentioned Kissinger´s death ( which I tried to repost here, but was deleted, I fear, because of reposting? I ignorewhether this is a rule here…Thought it was more relevant here than in that thread on Gaza…) related to “why the alleged leader of the opossition to the NWO of Western globalists so much praise Kissinger?
Is it because it was thanks to him that the Liberal Burgueois Order arrived in Russia and the Yeltsyn family, to which Putin belonged, could take over the overwhelming riches which belonged to all the Russian people?
That was at the price of arpound 12 million Russians dead by misery, drugs and desperation…

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 18:37 utc | 86

From the right wing (aka Zionist) press:

“In his message, Xi said Kissinger was a world-renowned strategist and an old friend and good friend of the Chinese people,” Xinhua reported. “Half a century ago, with an outstanding strategic vision, Kissinger made historic contributions to the normalization of China-U.S. relations, which has not only benefited the two countries, but also changed the world, Xi said.”
Xi added that Kissinger would “always be remembered and missed by the Chinese people” and that Xi was “ready to work with the United States to carry forward the cause of friendly” that Kissinger represented.
At the Chinese Foreign Ministry, spokesman Wang Wenbin echoed the mourning and respect for Kissinger reflected in Xi’s letter.
“Dr. Henry Kissinger was a dear old friend of the Chinese people and a trail-blazer and contributor to China-US relations,” Wang told reporters, according to the English-language transcript of Thursday’s regular briefing. “Dr. Kissinger, who has long been showing care and support for the growth of China-US relations, visited China more than 100 times and has made historical contribution to the normalization of China-US relations. He will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by the people of China for his personal commitment and extraordinary contribution to China-US relations.”
Wang added that “both sides in China and the US need to carry forward Dr. Kissinger’s strategic vision, political courage and diplomatic wisdom.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/30/a-friend-of-ours-forever-chinese-communists-celebrate-henry-kissinger/

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2023 18:55 utc | 88

use to observe with attention people´s photographs and read about their life, since sometimes they offer interesting data on who those people really were, who they joined during their life, which were their hobbies, and so on…
In that aim, so that you can observe this “woman”, I post the link to the Vanity Fair article on Kissinger´s widow…
For being the wife of a man who was born to a teacher and a housewife, and who had to work while studying, she appears like an elitist woman related to the higuest tiers of power…
For him “power was the best afhrodisic”…
Both enjoyed being involved in geopolitics..wondering how deep she was involved and how many of his husband shenanigans in other countries were influenced by this “woman” and her boss
https://www.revistavanityfair.es/articulos/nancy-kissinger-la-viuda-de-henry-oscar-de-la-renta-familia-hijos

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 19:20 utc | 90

It’s very ironic that the death of Kissinger coincides with the “Fall of the US Empire”.
“The Fall of the US Empire” now live on your TV screens”.

Posted by: Mr. Market | Nov 30 2023 19:27 utc | 92

The hey owopeople of Chile celebrating this SOB ‘s late death. They owe to him 30.000 dead and no one knows how many tortured exiled.
Does this beast have any descendants?

Posted by: augusto | Nov 30 2023 19:31 utc | 94

pretzelattack (#37)
“Posted by: Ciaran | Nov 30 2023 15:14 utc | 34
you misread the comment. Kissinger didn’t want a rapprochement with China.”
Not so. It was Kissinger’s rapprochement plan that was implemented. That he did so in accord with Nixon’s preference for China over his own for rapprochement with the Soviet Union is immaterial.

Posted by: Ciaran | Nov 30 2023 19:46 utc | 96

The corolary from the so friendly obituaries by both China and Russia should be, for those “waiting for Godot” who think that any of those countries will come anytime in our help and rescue from the hands of Davos eugenicists, informing themselves that it will be you, united to your own people, the only ones who could save yourselves and that the multipolar order has few differences with the dying unipolar, instead for the slight difference that anyone out there who is a nuclear power will be able to be considered in the table where the riches and the people of the world will be pieced as tokens in areas of influence, no matter what the peoples of those countries think about it.
Anyone not owning the nuclear option, forget about being at the decissory table and prepare to be vasals to be exploited at will, once disarmed and empoverished enough by your alleged “ally” through “War of Ukraine”
As one intriguing commenter at Larry Johnson´s always states, it must be true the “hope is one of the greatest weaknesses”…
The digital panopticon is being installed in each and every of the multipolar countries, most advanced even in China, which was in fact the model to follow for the rest, out of its economic success, and Russia, where facial digital ID has been already installed in primary schools…
It is obvious that the social credit system at work in China was identified by the resto of the world corporatocracy as inevitably linked to the Chinese economic miracle, which they all look for replicating in their own countries before the somber prospects of capitalism at its last death rales and the debt astonishing pyramid about to explode….
While nobody has put his brains at work to come with a new more balanced and fair model, as Duguin points out ( why should they, if the current so much beneffit them?…) as the disintregation is very fast, the only solution which the leaders of the world have been able to think about is old fascism, this time based on high tech, a whole ferreous control of the population and its assests, and heavy crushing on dissent so that there is no revolt on the misery conditions which inevitably will come with the falling of the capitalist liberal order, off which the elites of all the countries in the world have beneffited and on which they have built obscene fortunes.

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Nov 30 2023 19:57 utc | 98

if the US would have had rapprochement with the USSR rather than China it would have hurt the ‘financial class’ helped the middle class which is a good thing in the long run and between US/Europe/USSR versus China in the long-term China would have been contained.
Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 15:52 utc | 43
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Tell me exactly why you want to “contain” China? You mentioned it in at least two comments on this string? As I understand it, the US beef with China is that it is a near pier economic competitor with the US on the international market: Isn’t competition the very essence of capitalism? Perhaps global monopolies, like the MIC don’t really compete because they own both parties in Congress, but their workers sure as hell do, because under capitalism workers must compete to make a living and therefore every worker’s hand must be on every other worker’s throat.
Posted by: Ed | Nov 30 2023 16:41 utc | 54
Your point of view, while valid as far as it goes, is that of an ideologue. But in the real world Great Powers will always strive for more power and more control. War, economic levers (tariffs, sanctions), containment (cold war, now cold war 2) and propaganda are their tools-that’s the game.
Its happened like that since history has been recorded.
If I had my druthers I would prefer your idealistic world but, unfortunately, that’s not in the cards-at least until human nature changes.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2023 20:18 utc | 100