Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christopher Hitchens. Show all posts
Apr 30, 2015
Foreign Authors on Vietnam: Christopher Hitchens - Le procès de Henry Kissinger
Le procès de Henry Kissinger est l'examen de Christopher Hitchens des crimes de guerre présumés de Henry Kissinger, le conseiller en sécurité nationale et plus tard Secrétaire d'État des États-Unis pour les présidents Richard Nixon et Gerald Ford. Agissant dans le rôle de la poursuite, Hitchens présente des preuves de la complicité de Kissinger dans une série de crimes de guerre en Indochine, Bangladesh, Chili, Chypre et le Timor oriental.
Le livre a inspiré le film documentaire 2002, Le Procès de Henry Kissinger, qui a été co écrit par Hitchens et l'écrivain / réalisateur américain, Alex Gibney. Hitchens fait une apparition dans le film, étant interrogés sur Kissinger. Le documentaire comporte également un film de Kissinger mais seulement en images d'archives.
Dans les mots de Hitchens, Kissinger mérite poursuites "pour crimes de guerre, crimes contre l'humanité, et pour des infractions contre le droit commun ou coutumier ou internationale, y compris la conspiration pour commettre assassiner, enlever, et la torture." Il l'appelle en outre "un menteur magnifique avec une mémoire remarquable."
Le livre prend la forme d'un document de poursuite, que Hitchens limite sa critique à ces accusations comme il croit pourraient se tenir debout dans un tribunal international du droit suivant les précédents établis à Nuremberg et ailleurs. Ce lien Kissinger aux blessés de guerre au Vietnam, au Bangladesh et en massacres et les assassinats Timor au Chili, Chypre, et à Washington, DC Hitchens, un écrivain pour Vanity Fair et The Nation, avaient des antécédents d'embrocher démocrates ainsi que républicains.
Le livre est écrit d'une position d'auteur de l'indignation morale, et appelle les Américains à ne pas ignorer le record de Kissinger. Dans les mots de l'auteur, «Ils peuvent soit persister dans leur regard d'éviter l'impunité flagrante dont jouit une guerre criminel notoire et transgresseur de la loi, ou ils peuvent devenir saisis par les normes exaltées pour lesquelles ils détiennent toujours tout le monde."
Le livre a été re publié en 2012 par Atlantic Books et douze livres avec deux autres polémiques courts par Hitchens, le missionnaire Position, une attaque sur le statut et la célébrité de Mère Teresa, et plus personne pour Lie To, une critique de la politique manœuvres et le caractère personnel du président Bill Clinton.
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Foreign Authors for Vietnamese: Recommended Readings for 2014
The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Google eBook)
Book Summary
"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame."
Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.
Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER outlines atrocities authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the Iraqi Kurds, "including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture."
With the precision and tenacity of a prosecutor, Hitchens offers an unrepentant portrait of a felonious diplomat who "maintained that laws were like cobwebs," and implores governments around the world, including our own, to bring him swiftly to justice.
David Icke, The Lion Sleeps No More
Book Summary:
David Icke marks his 20th year of uncovering astounding secrets and suppressed information with the publication of his most amazing book yet. He takes the manipulation of the human race and the nature of reality to still new levels of understanding and he calls for humanity to rise from its knees and take back the world from the sinister network of families and non-human entities that covertly control us from cradle to grave. David has moved the global cutting edge so many times since his incredible awakening in 1990 until now.He describes what he calls the Moon Matrix, a fake reality broadcast from the Moon which is decoded by the human body/mind in much the same way as portrayed in the Matrix movie trilogy. The Moon Matrix has hacked into the human body-computer system, he says, and it is feeding us a manipulated sense of self and the world 24/7.
Huntington, The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order
Book Summary:
An insightful and powerful analysis of the forces driving global politics today and into the next century. In the summer of 1993 Foreign Affairs published an article entitled 'The Clash of Civilizations?' by Samuel Huntington. No article, according to the editors of that distinguished journal, had generated more discussion since George Kennan's 'X' article on containment in the 1940's. Now, Huntington expands on his article, explores further the issues he raised then, and develops many new penetrating and controversial analyses. In the article, he posed the question whether conflicts between civilizations would dominate the future of world politics. In the book, he gives his answer, showing not only how clashes between civilizations are the greatest threat to world peace but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war.
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine
Book Summary:
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
Duyen Nguyen, Behind the Smoke Curtain
Book Summary:
Behind the Smoke Curtain is a love story between an American journalist and a Vietnamese student at the Saigon University during the Vietnam War era. This work of romance will also provide readers with a panoramic view of the bloodiest and most gruesome war that America involved. While revealing the political lies and betrayals, its main purpose is to honor the young generation of American and Vietnamese soldiers who had sacrificed nobly and tremendously to fight for freedom and democracy.
R Stinnett, Day of Deceit (Pearl Harbour Story)
Book Summary:
In Day of Deceit, Robert Stinnett delivers the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and our worst military disaster. Drawing on twenty years of research and access to scores of previously classified documents, Stinnett proves that Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. By showing that ample warning of the attack was on FDR's desk and, furthermore, that a plan to push Japan into war was initiated at the highest levels of the U.S. government, he ends up profoundly altering our understanding of one of the most significant events in American history.
Barbara Honegger, October Surprise
Book Summary:
The author worked for Ronald Reagan during his campaign for the Presidency, then served on the White House staff, and the Department of Justice. In 1983 she was the first to resignation of conscience from the Reagan-Bush Administration. "Their guiding principles were that loyalty to a royalist version of the Presidency was more important than the Constitution, and that the truth was a 'problem' to be solved."
Let's pray for a better World in 2014
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Foreign Author on Vietnam: Christopher Hitchens - The Trials of Henry Kissinger with full documentary
The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001)
is Christopher Hitchens' examination of the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State for Presidents Richard Nixon and PresidentGerald Ford. Acting in the role of the prosecution, Hitchens presents evidence of Kissinger's complicity in a series of alleged war crimes in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus and East Timor.
Highlights from the book were serialized in Harper's Magazine in February and March 2001.
is Christopher Hitchens' examination of the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State for Presidents Richard Nixon and PresidentGerald Ford. Acting in the role of the prosecution, Hitchens presents evidence of Kissinger's complicity in a series of alleged war crimes in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus and East Timor.
Highlights from the book were serialized in Harper's Magazine in February and March 2001.
The book inspired the 2002 documentary film, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, which was co-written by Hitchens and the American writer/director, Alex Gibney. Hitchens makes an appearance in the film, being interviewed about Kissinger. The documentary also features film of Kissinger but only in archive footage.
In the words of Hitchens, Kissinger deserves prosecution "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture." He further calls him "a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory."
The book takes the form of a prosecutorial document, as Hitchens limits his critique to such charges as he believes might stand up in an international court of law following precedents set at Nuremberg and elsewhere. These link Kissinger to war casualties in Vietnam, massacres in Bangladesh and Timor and assassinations in Chile, Cyprus, andWashington, D.C. Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair and The Nation, had a history of skewering Democrats (he is the author of a provocative book on the Clintons, No One Left to Lie To) as well as Republicans.
The book is written from an authorial position of moral outrage, and calls for Americans not to ignore Kissinger's record. In the author's words, "They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else."
The book was re-issued in 2012 by Atlantic Books and Twelve Books along with two other short polemics by Hitchens,The Missionary Position, an attack on the status and celebrity of Mother Teresa, and No One Left to Lie To, a criticism of the political manoeuvring and personal character of President Bill Clinton.
(Source: wikipedia)
(Source: wikipedia)
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