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      Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives to testify at a Senate hearing

      Henry Kissinger: A War Criminal Who Has Not Once Faced the Bar of Justice

      Kissinger took a passionate, personal interest in promoting despotic governments throughout the globe.

      Jerelle Kraus
      May 27, 2023

      On May 27, 2023, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will have lived one hundred years. For half of those years, he’s haunted my life.

      On a Tuesday lunchtime in 1979, my third day as the New York Times’s op-ed art director, Sydney Schanberg and I had just settled down on the burgundy benches of Sardi’s, the theater-district restaurant behind the Times, when Syd told me, “I don’t believe in capital punishment, but I’d go anywhere to see Kissinger hanged.”

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      Rampant Tropical Forest Loss Belies COP26 Deforestation Pledge: Report

      "Such losses are a disaster for the climate. They're a disaster for biodiversity. They're a disaster for Indigenous peoples and local communities."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 28, 2022

      The destruction of tens of thousands of square miles of Earth's tropical forests in 2021 underscores the challenge of fulfilling a pledge made by nations at last year's United Nations Climate Conference to halt deforestation by the end of the decade, a report published Thursday asserted.

      "We have to dramatically reduce emissions from all sources."

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      War, Herbicides, and Moral Disengagement

      What gives political leaders the wherewithal to violate basic human values—established moral standards—and perpetrate the inhumanity of war?

      Robert C. Koehler
      Aug 12, 2021

      And the least secret agent of all . . . Agent Orange!

      On August 10, 1961, the United States, several years before it actually sent troops, started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides. The purpose: to deprive our declared enemy, the commies of Ho Chi Minh, of food and ground cover that allowed them to trek from North to South. It was called, innocuously, Operation Ranch Hand.

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