"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer." - Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger Page

 

Websites

KissingerWatch / International Campaign Against Impunity
Bilderberg Conferences / Kissinger page
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Appeal to revoke Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize
Wanted for War Crimes - Henry Kissinger

"It is firm and continuing policy that [the democratically elected government of] Allende be overthrown by a coup.... We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end utilizing every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG [United States Government] and American hands be well hidden."

October 1970 cable to CIA operatives in Chile from Henry Kissinger's "Track Two" group

 

Books

The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchins
BBC Documentary - The Trials of Henry Kissinger

Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon & Destruction of Cambodia

The Price of Power - Kissinger in the Nixon Whitehouse

" Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?"

Henry Kissinger, about the genocide in Cambodia perpetrated by the U.S.-supported Pol Pot regime

 

Articles

Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' (10/87)

The Case Against Henry Kissinger - Hitchins - Part 1
The Case Against Henry Kissinger - Hitchins - Part 2
The Fugitive - Christopher Hitchins
Court Time for Henry - Christopher Hitchins
Take Him Away - book review
The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction - by Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Declassified
Pol Pot and Kissinger
Kissinger and Pinochet

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people."

Henry Kissinger commenting on Chile, prior to Augusto Pinochet's U.S.-supported / CIA-facilitated military coup against Chile's democratically-elected President Salvador Allende

Can Henry Kissinger be Extradited? (10/98)
Name That Criminal - Kissinger & Pinochet (8/99)
With Friends Like These - Kissinger does Indonesia (4/00)
Henry Kissinger: Portrait of a Serial Killer (5/01)
Kissinger's Crimes - Henry Kissinger orchestrated global repression (6/01)
Pushovers of the Press - media elite review Kissinger book with fawning gullibility (7/01)
Manhattan's Milosevic (Henry Kissinger) (8/01)
On World Court, U.S. Focus Shifts to Shielding Officials (9/02)
Henry Kissinger: Enlightened Statesman or Odious Schlumpf? (11/02)
Kissinger Declassified (12/04)
CIA documents link Kissinger to 1970s coups - CIA's 'Family Jewels' (6/07)
New Transcripts of Kissinger's Role in Chilean Coup (9/08)

Henry Kissinger - USA - Zero

" Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty..."

U.S. Ambassador to Chile, three years before the US-supported coup against Chile's elected President Allende

 

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International War Crimes

Home Page

Xe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Worldwide

Blackwater Worldwide

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Xe Services LLC

Type	Private military security firm
Founded	1997
Founder(s)	Erik Prince Al Clark
Headquarters	Moyock, North Carolina, USA[1]
Industry	Private military and security contractor
Divisions	Nine
Website	http://xecompany.com/

Xe Services LLC (pronounced /zi/) is a private military company founded as Blackwater USA in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark.^[2][3]
In October 2007, the company was renamed Blackwater Worldwide and was colloquially referred to as "Blackwater". It has drawn controversy,^{[4][5][6][7][8]}
and has a wide array of business divisions, subsidiaries, and spin-off corporations.

Based in the U.S. state of North Carolina, Xe operates a tactical training facility (36°27′N
76°12′W / 36.45°N 76.2°W / 36.45; -76.2) which the company claims is the world's largest, and at which the company trains more than 40,000 people a year, mostly from U.S. or foreign military and police services. The training consists of military offensive and defensive operations, as well as smaller scale personal security.

The company announced on February 13, 2009, that it would operate under the new name "Xe". In a memo sent to employees, President Gary Jackson wrote that the new name "reflects the change in company focus away from the business of providing private security." A spokesman for the company stated that it feels the Blackwater name is too closely associated with the company's work in Iraq.^[9]
Spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said there was no meaning in the new name, which the company spent over a year to arrive at in an internal search.^[10]

Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors. Of the 987 contractors Xe provides, 744 are U.S. citizens.^[11][12] At least 90 percent of the company's revenue
comes from government contracts, of which two-thirds are no-bid contracts.^[13] Xe provided security services in Iraq to the United States federal government, particularly the
Department of State^[1] on a contractual basis. They no longer have a license to operate in Iraq: the new Iraqi government made multiple attempts to expel them from their country,^[14]
and denied their application for an operating license in January 2009.^[15] However, the company is still under contract with the State Department and some Xe personnel will likely remain in Iraq at least until September, 2009. ^[16]

(a lot more)

British PM tells families hostages probably dead - CNN.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/29/british.hostages.iraq/
(abridged)

British PM tells families hostages probably dead

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Two British hostages held in Iraq since 2007 are probably dead, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told the families of two hostages that they are probably (read: they are) dead.

• UK hostages confirmed dead after bodies identified

Five men were kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad in May 2007 -- computer analyst Moore and security guards ( Iraqi FM needing British guards?) McMenemy, MacLachlan, Creswell and Swindlehurst.

The security guards worked for Canadian-based security firm GardaWorld, according to the company. (Mercenaries...)

Moore worked for U.S.-based BearingPoint.( CIA? MI5?)

In February 2008,Peter Moore appeared in a second video, pleading with the British government to perform "a simple exchange" of prisoners with his captors so "we can go home."

"It's a simple exchange -- release those that they want so we can go home. It's as simple as that. It is a simple exchange of people. This is all they want, just have their people released," he said.

(and? What did the UK do about that?)

The British Embassy in Iraq received a third video in March of this year but refused to disclose its contents. (must have been real embarrassing to the government...

How about exchanging the UK parliament for the hostages? That would work for me.)

AFP: Talks best way for peace in Afghanistan: president

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXuA913Hh43kpufYchoGOFqCQG8w
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that talks with the Taliban were the most effective way to end a bloody insurgency and welcomed Britain's new backing of these efforts.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, his country suffering heavy casualties in Taliban strongholds in the south, called Monday for negotiations with militants "who can be reconciled to live within the Afghan constitution".

But a spokesman for the insurgent group Tuesday reiterated there could be no talks without the withdrawal of the roughly 90,000 international soldiers based in Afghanistan to prop up the fragile government.

(more...)

http://cominganarchy.com/2009/07/03/microstate-madness-europe-in-2020/

There is a reasonable speculation that by 2020, Europe itself will  be reminiscent of the Balkans, by ever more and smaller "states" declaring their independence. Below is a map, which summarizes this fragmentation.

Your thoughts?

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(see the link for more)

Microstate Madness – Europe in 2020

(Click on the map for a full size version)

A dark chapter in the near past of Europe: Bosnian Serbs guilty of burning women and children alive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8159664.stm

Bosnian Serbs guilty of burnings

Milan Lukic (left) and his cousin Sredoje burnt Bosniak Muslims alive

Two Bosnian Serb commanders have been found guilty of war crimes, including burning women and children alive, during the Bosnian civil war.

Cousins Milan and Sredoje Lukic were members of a paramilitary group called the White Eagles, or the Avengers.

They were accused of murder, persecution, extermination and other inhumane acts against Bosnian Muslims near Visegrad between 1992 and 1994.

Judges at The Hague jailed Milan Lukic for life, and Sredoje to 30 years.

Judge Patrick Robinson, reading his verdict, said: "The perpetration by Milan Lukic and Stredoje Lukic of crimes in this case is characterised by a callous and vicious disregard for human life."

The burning alive of Muslims, he said, was extraordinarily brutal, and "exemplified the worst acts of humanity that one person may inflict on others".

Ringleader

The court ruled that Milan Lukic, the leader of the White Eagles paramilitary force, was the ringleader of the attacks.

WHITE EAGLES Paramilitary group in Bosnian conflict in early 1990s Accused of ethnic cleansing of Muslims near Visegrad Worked with Bosnian Serb police and army units Also known as the "Avengers"

He herded about 130 women, children and elderly men in to two houses - both in or near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad - before setting fire to them.

All those who tried to escape were shot.

He was also found guilty of murdering 12 Muslim civilian men, and beating Muslims at a detention camp.

Sredoje Lukic was found guilty of aiding and abetting one of the house fires.

Prosecutors told the tribunal that the White Eagles carried out a campaign of ethnic cleaning.

One prosecutor, Dermot Groome, said the cousins took part in a "widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population".

Top fugitives

The cousins had denied the charges at their trial at the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, which ended in May.

The defence had called for an acquittal because of what it called "inconsistencies" in the prosecution evidence.

But the court found the testimonies of surviving witnesses to be credible.

In 2005, Milan and Sredoje Lukic were two of The Hague tribunal's top fugitives.

Milan Lukic, 41, went on the run for seven years after being indicted on war crimes charges, but was arrested in Argentina in August 2005 and was handed over to the tribunal after being extradited.

Sredoje Lukic, 48, surrendered to the Bosnian Serb authorities the following month.

The ACLU is the reason we have Constitutional rights in America.

http://cosmicrat.multiply.com/journal/item/127/The_ACLU_is_the_reason_we_have_Constitutional_rights_in_America.
Many of us live in relatively free democratic countries, yet many may not realize how that freedom came about. Many Americans don't know the full story of ours. I'd be interested in hearing from others how their own country got the liberty they currently enjoy.
--cosmicrat

An Old Favourite

Iran: 'Persepolis' The Sequel

http://www.spreadpersepolis.com/
Two Iranian exiles, Sina and Payman, have created this update of 'Persepolis', a cartoon by Marjane Satrapi about the Iranian revolution of 1979; Satrapi's version won a trophy at Cannes in 2008.

The pair's new version deals with June's election and protests...

The Aardvark Magick Theatre Presents - Obama's First Coup...A Coming Of Age?

http://aaranaardvark.multiply.com/journal/item/209?mark_read=aaranaardvark:journal:209&replies_read=3&goto=3#reply3
Honduras, CIA and United States Intervention in South American Politics

Posted with permission. Fantastic article on recent events in Honduras and the training of the people involved...