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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20231 min read
SNAKE OIL SALESMAN - Henry Kissinger
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/01/henry-kissinger-snake-oil-salesman-of-gangster-realism/
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Kissinger's Ego
https://www.yahoo.com/news/henry-kissinger-only-cared-one-165154970.html
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Kissinger the Immoral
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-19872410
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Fraud of Kissinger
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4338279-in-vietnam-henry-kissinger-was-worse-than-a-fraud/
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Bitterness At Kissinger
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blood-boils-kissingers-bitter-legacy-130840488.html
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20234 min read
Kissinger Obsequies
FROM THE GUARDIAN ‘Aura of credibility’: why Democrats and elites revere Kissinger despite war crimes allegations Julian Borger in...
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20236 min read
ISRAELI LIES
DECEMBER 1, 2023 Mainstream Media Largely Ignore Israel’s Duplicity and Deceit BY MELVIN GOODMAN Over the years, particularly during the...
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richard lightner
Dec 3, 20234 min read
Henry Kissinger
The Global South hasn’t forgotten Kissinger By Eduardo Porter Columnist and editorial board member | December 3, 2023 I did not...
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richard lightner
Dec 2, 20236 min read
Henry Kissinger
The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry Kissinger. The Atlantic Lauded for his strategic insights, the former secretary of state is better...
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richard lightner
Nov 19, 20232 min read
Israel Based on a Myth
Shlomo Sand. The Invention of the Land of Israel: from holy land to homeland. 2012. Shlomo Sand is a Professor of History at the...
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richard lightner
Nov 18, 20234 min read
Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert. Israel: a history. 1998. “Since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in AD 70, the Jews, who were dispersed...
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richard lightner
Nov 13, 20232 min read
1948
Benny Morris. 1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli War. 2008. “The Jewish people was born in the Land of Israel, which it ruled, on...
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richard lightner
Nov 10, 20231 min read
Gaza on Fire (Introduction to Palestine)
The October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel was long time coming. The suffering of the Palestinians, ignored by the world, which...
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richard lightner
Nov 10, 20232 min read
David Ben-Gurion
Tom Segev. A State at Any Cost: the life of David Ben-Gurion. 2019. Ben-Gurion believed the deaths from the establishment of the State of...
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richard lightner
Nov 8, 20231 min read
We Do Not Have a Democracy by Gore Vidal
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/requiem-american-empire/
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richard lightner
Nov 4, 20231 min read
Fire in the Lake
Francis Fitzgerald. Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. 1971. Although victorious at Dien Bien Phu the Viet...
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richard lightner
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Scholars
The Viet-Nam Reader: articles and documents on American foreign policy and the Viet-Nam crisis. Marcus G. Raskin and Bernard B. Fall, ed....
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richard lightner
Oct 28, 20239 min read
General's Son
Miko Peled. General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine . 2016. The following is from the Introduction by Alice Walker. Peled’s...
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richard lightner
Oct 20, 20232 min read
Dien Bien Phu
Robert J. Donovan. Eisenhower: the inside story. 1956. Following Eisenhower’s inauguration the U.S. increased aid to the French and “set...
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