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Kissinger's crimes in context

Kissinger is finally dead. We've been waiting. Take a look our new book: The Good Die Young plus a selection of books that detail, or give context to, Kissinger's crimes.

Verso Books30 November 2023

Kissinger's crimes in context

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Kissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy endures.

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the ghoul haunting its hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive rounds of growing pains. For multiple generations of anti-war activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the American war machine.

In this book, Jacobin follows Kissinger’s fiery trajectory around the world — not because he was evil incarnate, but because he, more than any other public figure, illustrates the links between capitalism, empire, and the feedback loop of endless war-making that still plagues us today.

The ebook is now available for purchase. You can pre-order a print copy, which will be shipped on 19 December 2023.

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  • Governing from the Skies
    Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power. A power initially deploye...
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