Free Download Bhaskar Sunkara, "The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger"
English | ISBN: 1788730305 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB | 243 KB
"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."
-Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post
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.
The world Kissinger wrought is the world we live in, where ideal investment conditions are generated from the barrel of a gun. Today, global capitalism and United States hegemony are underwritten by the most powerful military ever devised. Any political vision worth fighting for must promise an end to the cycle of never-ending wars afflicting the world in the twenty-first century. And breaking that cycle means placing the twin evils of capitalism and imperialism in our crosshairs.
In this book,
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