Hi, I'm Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now.

Please support our independent journalism at democracy now.org.

That's Democracy Now.

Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. Thank you so much. From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I think the word war criminal should not be thrown around in the domestic debate.

It's a shameful, it's a reflection on the people who use it.

Henry Kissinger has died at the age of a hundred.

To many in the Washington establishment, Kissinger is held as one of the nation's most influential

and famous diplomats.

But around the world, from Chile to East Timor, Bangladesh to Cambodia and Laos, Henry Kissinger is remembered as a war criminal whose actions led to massacres, coups, and the deaths of millions.

We'll speak with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Brandon, author of Kissinger's Shadow, the

long reach of America's most controversial statesman.

So Kissinger's trajectory from Cambodia, from being the architect of the secret campaign to bomb a country the United States wasn't at war with to the state we are in now governed by

national security state is what I think is most instructive about Kissinger's life

and most important about him other than

Describing him as a war criminal which which he is but first as the true sin Gaza is extended another day, we speak with Avrile Benoit, Executive Director of

Doctors Without Borders, and Human Rights Lawyer Raji Serani, the Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

He's now left Gaza.

He'll join us from Cairo.

All that and more coming up. Coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now. Or the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

...