Speaker 1: Good morning, keep send, Welcome to Look f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl. Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy fuck It Friday. It is amazing when we make
Speaker 1: it to the end of one of these weeks in America,
Speaker 1: and you know, today I would have spent a little
Speaker 1: bit of time, which I'm sure you all have seen,
Speaker 1: on the passing of Henry Kissinger. And why do I
Speaker 1: want to do that? Because I think that it's very
Speaker 1: interesting to look at this man who lived to be
Speaker 1: one hundred years old, who had such an extraordinarily her
Speaker 1: terrific impact on American foreign policy, and yet has been revered,
Speaker 1: hailed as a genius, was protected from experiencing the trials
Speaker 1: that war criminals should be facing after they have contributed
Speaker 1: to the deaths of millions of people. And yet I'm
Speaker 1: sure as you've been watching the news, you've seen you know,
Speaker 1: memoriams done that talk about his genius, that talk about
Speaker 1: his patriotism and say that, oh he had, you know,
Speaker 1: a controversial sentiments about him and around him, but all
Speaker 1: in all, he was a good American And isn't his
Speaker 1: story incredible? As family escaped Germany during the height of Hitler,
Speaker 1: they fled to the United States, and then he has
Speaker 1: this storied career as an academic at Harvard and then
Speaker 1: moving on to be Nixon's top guy. Right, And I
Speaker 1: just I gotta tell you, history is a funny thing.
Speaker 1: And there's a piece that I'm going to read from
Speaker 1: that I think is important. And if you're a subscriber
Speaker 1: to the Rolling Stones, you are the Rolling Stone. You
Speaker 1: must and I always call it the Rolling Stones like
Speaker 1: the band. If you are a subscriber to Rolling Stone,
Speaker 1: you should read it. If not, go on one of
Speaker 1: those sites that allows you to read subscription only pieces,
Speaker 1: because it is absolutely one thousand percent worthier time, and
Speaker 1: it's long, and it is brilliant in its description of
Speaker 1: who Henry Kissinger actually was. His absolutely just disgusting policies
Speaker 1: that would lay the groundwork for the way that the
Speaker 1: United States operated in Iraq, operated in Afghanistan, and the
Speaker 1: way that we have allowed right Israel to operate in
Speaker 1: its current war. So here's the piece and the title
Speaker 1: of it at Rolling Stone is Henry Kissinger, war criminal
Speaker 1: beloved by America's ruling class, finally dies. Just the title
Speaker 1: alone brings me in, Okay, And it's written by Spencer Akerman,
Speaker 1: and this is what he writes. Henry Kissinger died on
Speaker 1: Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. His consulting firm said
Speaker 1: in a statement, the notorious war criminal was one hundred. First,
Speaker 1: let me just pause there, because wow, I wish that
Speaker 1: we all had the access to the kind of healthcare
Speaker 1: that the federal government and our tax dollars go to provide,
Speaker 1: right to representatives, to presidents, to state officials, and what
Speaker 1: have you. I know that Henry Kissinger is a wealthy man,
Speaker 1: and once he left government work, probably you know, had
Speaker 1: his own health care. But let us understand that what
Speaker 1: would America look like and what would our life expectancy
Speaker 1: rate be if, in fact, we all had access to
Speaker 1: the same kind of healthcare that our representatives do. Just
Speaker 1: a little food for thought, maybe it wouldn't be seventy
Speaker 1: three and declining, just putting it out there. He goes
Speaker 1: on to write, measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst
Speaker 1: mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the
Speaker 1: white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April nineteenth, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murah federal building
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, killing one hundred and sixty eight people,
Speaker 1: including nineteen children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection
Speaker 1: in June two thousand one. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes,
Speaker 1: even over a man such as McVeigh, necessary questions about
Speaker 1: the legitimacy of killing even an unrepentant soldier of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: His death provided a measure of closure to the mother
Speaker 1: of one of his victims. Quote. It's a period at
Speaker 1: the end of a sentence, said Kathleen Treynor, Who's four
Speaker 1: year old McVeigh killed. McVeigh, who was, in his own
Speaker 1: psychotic way, thought he was saving America. Wherever you heard
Speaker 1: those words before, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger,
Speaker 1: the most revered American grand strategist of the second half
Speaker 1: of the twentieth century. The Yale University historian Greg Grandon,
Speaker 1: author of the biography Kissinger's Shadow, estimates listen to this
Speaker 1: that Kissinger's actions folks from nineteen sixty nine through nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger
Speaker 1: made Richard Nixon and then Gerald Ford's foreign policy as
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor and Secretary of State meant the end
Speaker 1: of between listen to this. I need to just say
Speaker 1: this again. Eight brief years nineteen sixty nine to nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six, when Kissinger was both Nixon and then after
Speaker 1: the resignation, would become Jered World Forwards foreign policy advisor
Speaker 1: as their National security Advisor and Secretary of State. He's
Speaker 1: the only person to have held both of those positions
Speaker 1: simultaneously in the Nixon administration. He is responsible for the
Speaker 1: deaths of between three and four million people, not three
Speaker 1: and four hundred, not three and four thousand, Three and
Speaker 1: four million fucking people, not just numbers, mothers, fathers, uncles, sisters, brothers, children,
Speaker 1: in eight years. Let me go on. That includes quote,
Speaker 1: crimes of commission, he explained, as in Cambodia and Chile,
Speaker 1: and omission like green lighting Indonesia's bloodshed in East timor
Speaker 1: Pakistan's bloodshed in Bangladesh, and the inauguration of an American
Speaker 1: tradition of using and then abandoning the Kurds. Quote. The
Speaker 1: Cubans say there is no evil that lasts one hundred years,
Speaker 1: and Kissinger is making a run to prove them wrong,
Speaker 1: Grandon told Rolling Stone not long before Kissinger died quote,
Speaker 1: there is no doubt he'll be hailed as a geopolitical
Speaker 1: grand strategist, even though he bungled most crises leading to escalation.
Speaker 1: He'll get credit for opening China, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: he won a Nobel Peace Prize for ending somehow opening
Speaker 1: China and ending the war in Vietnam after bombing Cambodia,
Speaker 1: which was by the way, a neutral country at the time,
Speaker 1: but because as I learned in this article, the ho
Speaker 1: Chi mintrail went through Cambodia, he gave the green light
Speaker 1: to just bomb it to smitherees a country that had
Speaker 1: no involvement in the Vietnam War, but nonetheless killed one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand of its seven hundred thousand people. I just
Speaker 1: want to pause here because as I was reading this
Speaker 1: article and I'm getting into it, something seemed eerily familiar
Speaker 1: as the author is explaining some of the actions that
Speaker 1: were taken, particularly in Cambodia and Chile. In Chile was
Speaker 1: to oust have the United States develop a coup to
Speaker 1: oust a democratic socialist who was bringing together the people
Speaker 1: of Chile. And they didn't like that because now there
Speaker 1: was going to be tariffs placed on the copper that
Speaker 1: is abundant in Chile that was owned largely by American corporations.
Speaker 1: There was going to be taxes and penalties placed on
Speaker 1: it by the new leader of Chile in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: and Kissinger came up with a planet said, ad, that
Speaker 1: doesn't sound great. You know, then we won't have control
Speaker 1: over the extraction that we're doing in that country. So
Speaker 1: let's get rid of him, which would then usher him. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, decades plus of a military occupation by
Speaker 1: a murderous general that would kill and torture tens of
Speaker 1: thousands of people at the behest of Kissinger who decided
Speaker 1: to oust the Democratic socialist who wanted reparations from the
Speaker 1: countries that were extracting their abundant natural resource of copper.
Speaker 1: So just a little tidbit here, going now back to Cambodia,
Speaker 1: this neutral party, this neutral country that the Vietnamese were using,
Speaker 1: you know, and I use quotation marks as a trafficking
Speaker 1: thoroughfare for weapons. So Kissinger said, oh, well, we'll get
Speaker 1: a handle on this war by bombing this peaceful country
Speaker 1: because oh they're harboring, right, this trail that's being used
Speaker 1: does has sound familiar? To you, because it does to
Speaker 1: me when being told most recently about Hamas you know,
Speaker 1: using hospitals and their underground areas for their tunneling systems
Speaker 1: to justify the bombings and decimation of hospitals which are
Speaker 1: filled with innocent wounded people, doctors, nurses, and administrators. But
Speaker 1: you know, necessary evils and crimes of commission. Okay, History
Speaker 1: repeats itself when we decide not to learn it the
Speaker 1: first time over, or you know there are no checks
Speaker 1: and balances. We go on in this piece to talk
Speaker 1: about how kiss and over his decades long grip on
Speaker 1: American foreign policy, because it didn't end with the Ford administration,
Speaker 1: it would continue, and he would act as an advisor
Speaker 1: to many, a secretary of state to many of president Right,
Speaker 1: this article goes on, no infamy will find Kissinger on
Speaker 1: a day like today instead in a demonstration of why
Speaker 1: he was able to kill so many people and get
Speaker 1: away with it. The day of his passage will be
Speaker 1: a solemn one in Congress, and shamefully, since Kissinger had
Speaker 1: reporters like CBS Marvin Kahb and The New York Times
Speaker 1: Hendrick Smith wiretapped news rooms. Kissinger a refugee from the
Speaker 1: Nazis who became a pedigreed member of the quote Eastern
Speaker 1: establishment Nixon hated, was a practitioner of a men American greatness,
Speaker 1: and so the press lionized him as the cold blooded
Speaker 1: genius who restored America's prestige from the agony of Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Not once in a half century that followed Kissinger's departure
Speaker 1: from power did the millions the United States killed matter
Speaker 1: for his reputation, except to confirm a ruthlessness that pundits
Speaker 1: occasionally find thrilling. America, like every empire, champions its state murderers.
Speaker 1: The only time I was ever in the same room
Speaker 1: as Henry Kissinger was at a twenty fifteen national security
Speaker 1: conference at West Point. He was surrounded by paining army
Speaker 1: officers and ex officials basking in the presence of a statesman.
Speaker 1: What's so unsettling about all of this is that this
Speaker 1: piece tells us the truth, the unvarnished truth, not the
Speaker 1: fairy tale of the immigrant who fled war and comes
Speaker 1: to the United States as a Jewish refugee to build
Speaker 1: a storied career in politics. That's the sanitized version, right
Speaker 1: that you learn in school. What you don't hear about, however,
Speaker 1: is the actual real consequences of this war mongering sociopath
Speaker 1: that would justify the killing of millions of people. As
Speaker 1: you know, crimes of commission and omission, sometimes the ends
Speaker 1: have to, you know, justify the means. And I think
Speaker 1: about this, and I think about how the United States,
Speaker 1: because of the actions of Kissinger, have gone into bombing
Speaker 1: other nations that we never declared war with, like Libya, Somalia, Syria,
Speaker 1: right as a preemptive measure. But we don't hear that
Speaker 1: story about America. We only hear the stories about American
Speaker 1: exceptionalism and the lengths that we go to around the
Speaker 1: world to protect democracy. When the moves that he was
Speaker 1: making Kissinger during his heydays had nothing to do with democracy.
Speaker 1: It had everything to do with capitalistic domination and ensuring
Speaker 1: that the United States, while creating laws around how other
Speaker 1: countries should move, would never actually be held to those
Speaker 1: same laws and rules. It's the same way that America
Speaker 1: moves now. So when we're looking right at these horrific
Speaker 1: death tolls, for instance, that are happening in Israel and
Speaker 1: Palestine at fourteen thousand plus people, I think that probably
Speaker 1: in the Pentagon. These motherfuckers are like, oh, that's light
Speaker 1: work compared to the millions that this man decimated in
Speaker 1: an eight year period, because the reality is that they
Speaker 1: are not operating. America is not operating and has never
Speaker 1: operated from a place of humanity. They've operated from a
Speaker 1: place of capitalistic greed, and they cover it up with
Speaker 1: the facade of holding on to quote unquote democracy. All
Speaker 1: of it is a lot, and this idea that somehow
Speaker 1: the ends justify the means, somehow we can continue to
Speaker 1: bomb our way to peace is also a lie, because
Speaker 1: all we do is create instability and chaos everywhere we
Speaker 1: fucking go. The reason why we find ourselves so on
Speaker 1: edge now is because the world has been made smaller
Speaker 1: thanks to social media, right that we can actually see
Speaker 1: in real time what is happening. No one fucking knew
Speaker 1: really what was going on in Vietnam. No one knew
Speaker 1: about the secret bombing of Cambodia. There was no one
Speaker 1: sending up write any messages. And frankly, one of the
Speaker 1: things that Kissinger was good for was saying that media
Speaker 1: outlets in these areas should be blocked, should be barred
Speaker 1: from sharing their content. Similarly, which is what Netanyahu has
Speaker 1: said in Israel and in Gaza, banning cameras so that
Speaker 1: the crimes that you are committing in dark will never
Speaker 1: come to light, not in real time, to have any
Speaker 1: real time consequences. This is the important, folks, of the
Speaker 1: moment that we are currently living in. When I say
Speaker 1: what is the purpose of journalism? The purpose of journalism
Speaker 1: is to be the eyes and ears for the people,
Speaker 1: not for clicks and for advertising. The reason why people
Speaker 1: are outrage and you're seeing the tone and tenor of
Speaker 1: our current president change shift around the actions in Israel
Speaker 1: and Palestine is because of our outrage. Why are we
Speaker 1: outrage because we are fucking trauma scrolling every single day
Speaker 1: because there's not a way for them to bar us
Speaker 1: and sanitize what it is that we are seeing. Sure,
Speaker 1: they put up one picture on mainstream corporate media, but
Speaker 1: your Twitter feed and your Instagram feed and your tiktoks
Speaker 1: are filled with the actual truth. I don't believe that
Speaker 1: if Kissinger was at his prime today that he would
Speaker 1: be hailed as a genius and a hero. I think
Speaker 1: that his feet would be held to the fucking fire
Speaker 1: in the way that it should have been, but was
Speaker 1: protected by the American infrastructure for him never to be
Speaker 1: held accountable for his crimes. That's why it is important
Speaker 1: for us to bear witness to what is happening, dear friends,
Speaker 1: because we have an ability to force the hand of
Speaker 1: this administration. That's why democracy is important and attention is important.
Speaker 1: We have more power than we know. I encourage each
Speaker 1: and every one of you to head to Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: to check out this article written by Spencer Akerman Henry Kissinger,
Speaker 1: war criminal beloved by America's ruling class finally dies. It
Speaker 1: is a mother fucking page turner, scroller and one of
Speaker 1: the brilliant pieces of writing that I have read lately.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today, dear friends on wokf
Speaker 1: as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.