Newspapers Are A Bunch Of Sluts

I don't know about them being sluts, perhaps in some instances maybe. I would never make that assertion like former President Nixon did a while back. Who the media are sluts to is another difference between Nixon and myself. Today I would say they are beholden to their corporate masters by and large. Thirty-five years ago the only thing that mattered was Nixon's enormous ego.

This information and more was brought to light by Vanity Fair's Robert Dallek. In addition to writing an article for the magazine, he is writing a book on the power struggle between Nixon and Kissinger. While both men agreed on the newspapers being sluts, the two sparred against each other in their own quests for power of the Nixon Administration.

From RawStory:

In next month's Vanity Fair, Robert Dallek illustrates how President Richard Nixon "was losing his epic power struggle with Henry Kissinger," a thesis drawn out in his upcoming book Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. He describes the two similarly as "paranoid and insecure, deceitful and manipulative, ruthless and strangely vulnerable."

Dallek bases his argument on a new analysis of Nixon administration archives -- what he calls a "real-time rendering of events often at variance with official portrayals" -- which includes diary entries, transcripts, tapes, records and official papers. "Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public," writes Dallek, "not while he was alive, at any rate. And for good reason."

The historian highlights "moments of high drama" and depicts Kissinger as "a man whose growing power derived from Nixon's deepening incapacity." Dallek also discusses how the archives "reveal Kissinger's troubling personality and methods across a broad front."

There'll be plenty more in the article and the upcoming book. Be sure to check it out, the pages should be exciting, even if you aren't a Presidential historian. The battle between these two paranoid and egocentric men is one for the ages.

Uruguayan Wants Kissinger Extradited

Henry Kissinger is mainly known for being an immigrant who made it big, the Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford and now an elder statesmen. For those that are aware of the more intricate details of his career however, they know a far different man. Outside of the U.S. there are plenty of people that see Kissinger's darker side in much more detail, especially in Southeast Asia and South America.

Kissinger is responsible for Operation Condor. This plan was not to save the giant bird, but to destroy leftist governments in Latin America (even if they were democratically elected) and replace them with more sympathetic elements towards the United States. Now a piece of the past is catching up with the elderly Kissinger.

From the AFP:

An attorney for a victim of Uruguay's 1973-1985 dictatorship has asked his government to request the extradition of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger over his alleged role in the notorious Operation Condor.

Condor was a secret plan hatched by South American dictators in the 1970s to eliminate leftist political opponents in the region. Details of the plan have emerged over the past years in documents and court testimony.

The Latin American dictatorships of the time "were mere executors" of a "plan of extermination" hatched in the United States by a group led by Kissinger, said attorney Gustavo Salle, who represents the family of Bernardo Arnone.

Arnone was one of many that were tortured and others who were executed for supporting leftist governments that Kissinger disapproved of. His actions led to many political changes throughout South America that left many people in horrendous situations that our government approved of and aided with money, weapons and other items of value.

With recent declassified State Department documents, Arnone sees an opportunity to expose Dr. Kissinger's role in these atrocities and show the world what he did that led to many deaths and victims of torture in the 1970s and 1980s. Kissinger may have acted in the 'interests' of the United States, but he did democracy no favors and is 'allegedly' indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions in South America and especially in Southeast Asia relating to the Vietnam War and its aftermath. It is about time someone hold him accountable.