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Ukraine conflict: Henry Kissinger warns against a new world war
In the midst of war fever in the US, the former secretary of state and infamously ruthless cold warrior has warned against attempts to split up Russia and allow the situation to slip into all-out global conflict, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
Directly involved in the 1973 coup in Chile, Vietnam, and many of the cold war's darkest moments, Henry Kissinger's warning is particularly significant, coming from inside the US war machine.
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
WHEN it comes to foreign policy, Henry Kissinger is one of the most important voices in the US.
For many years he was the national security adviser. He also served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
In the early 1970s, he masterminded the rapprochement between the US and China to isolate and weaken the then-USSR.
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