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A picture taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023, shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian territory amid ongoing battles with the Hamas militant group. Israel pressed on early December 12 with its bombing of Gaza after saying its campaign to destroy Hamas has left the Palestinian militant group on the "the verge of dissolution". (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and groundbreaking interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses.

The archive offers previously unpublished, unreported, and underappreciated evidence of hundreds of civilian casualties that were kept secret during the war and remain almost entirely unknown to the American people.

Previously unpublished interviews with more than 75 Cambodian witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks reveal new details of the long-term trauma borne by survivors of the American war.

Experts say Kissinger bears significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.

When questioned about these deaths, Kissinger responded with sarcasm and refused to provide answers.

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Random cellphone subway photos... where was I going?  And why?  Sadly, I can't recall...

#nyc #subway #photos #stand clear of the closing doors #bing bong #of course #this is the 1 train #so they don't play that on this line #but I digress...

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Back in the 1970s, my late friend Gloria Emerson, who covered the Vietnam War for the New York Times, wrote: "If, years from now, Americans are willing to read any books about the war, let them be The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half by Jonathan Schell. They tell everything."  I long believed this was the greatest blurb anyone could write or receive.  That was before Jonathan Schell offered a quote for for my next book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.  Words fail me...

“A tour de force of reporting and research: the first time comprehensive portrait, written with dignity and skill, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings, hidden behind a screen of official lies and cover-ups all these years, are shocking almost beyond words.… Some thirty thousand books have been written about the Vietnam War. Many more will now be needed, and they must begin with Kill Anything That Moves.” —Jonathan Schell, author of The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War

#jonathan schell #gloria emerson #vietnam war #kill anything that moves #vietnam #history #lit #books #politics #wow

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Phan Thị Kim Phúc, known as Kim Phuc (born 1963) was the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam War. The picture shows her at about age nine running naked after being severely burned on her back by a napalm attack.

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11 May 1968, Saigon, Vietnam —- American Helicopter Over Saigon During Second Offensive —- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis

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Key Takeaways

The Intercept is publishing, for the first time, a Pentagon investigation of civilian deaths from a drone strike in Africa.

The probe acknowledged that a woman and child were killed in a 2018 attack in Somalia but found that standard operating procedures were followed.

After months of “target development,” a secret U.S. task force rushed to annihilate perceived enemies in a war Congress didn’t declare, mistaking a woman and child for an adult male. They never even knew how many people they killed.

The strike was conducted under loosened rules of engagement approved by the Trump White House, and no one was ever held accountable for the civilian deaths.

The Pentagon expressed doubt that the victims’ identities would ever be known. But in Mogadishu this spring, seven members of their family told The Intercept that, despite multiple pleas, they have never received compensation or an apology from the U.S.

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RT @Alec_Bowers: Fun #lunch with #friends. #sushi #cutfish #moscow #russia #healthy #makeamericagreatagain… https://t.co/u3CdKQa9PX

Fun #lunch with #friends.#sushi #cutfish #moscow #russia #healthy #makeamericagreatagain… https://t.co/u3CdKQa9PX

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