5/26/23 Nick Turse on the Crimes of Henry Kissinger

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Scott talks with journalist Nick Turse about a series of articles he wrote to mark Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday. Scott and Turse reflect on all the destructive policies Kissinger helped enact during his long career in government and try to determine how many deaths he is responsible for. Turse also reveals some new information he discovered about the U.S. bombing campaign in Cambodia and talks about the time he confronted Kissinger directly about his war crimes. Discussed on the show: “Blood on his Hands: Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings” (The Intercept) “Notorious 1973 Attack Killed Many More Than Previously Known” (The Intercept) “U.S. Blamed the Press for Military Looting in Cambodia” (The Intercept) “Transcripts of Kissinger’s Calls Reveal His Culpability” (The Intercept) Nick Turse is a contributing writer for The Intercept. He is the author most recently of Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan and of the bestselling Kill Anything That Moves. Follow him on Twitter @nickturse This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. quite some time I've got our old friend Nick Turks he of course is the author of
0:55.2	kill anything that moves about the war in Vietnam and he has this really
1:00.1	important new series at the intercept about Henry Kissinger called
1:04.7	blood on his hands. Welcome back to the show Nick how are you doing?
1:10.1	I'm doing well thanks for having me on.
1:12.4	Very happy to have you here Mr. Hard to get I'm doing well. doing well. Thanks for having me on.
1:13.0	Very happy to have you here.
1:14.0	Mr. Hard to get a hold up.
1:15.0	I'll tell you what.
1:18.0	But man, you do good work and we follow every little bit of it over at anti-war.com. So Henry Kissinger and you know what David Rockefeller his patron to live to be 99 what is it with these guys don't tell me it's some weird thing where they drink
1:35.1	children's blood these people get to live to be a hundred years old it's it's
1:39.5	Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday huh and you're reminding everybody that he ain't so nice?
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