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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Rolling Stones says Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm said in a statement. The notorious war criminal was 100. Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white-supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb at the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. The government killed McVeigh by lethal injection in June 2001. Whatever hesitation a state execution provokes, even over a…

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Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 Al Jazeera says Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish teenager who fled the Nazis, a self-confessed “secret swinger” who dated pin-ups, a Machiavellian adviser to United States presidents who changed the course of history and a workaholic who remained active beyond his last birthday. The debate about whether the former US…

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US foreign policy giant Henry Kissinger dies aged 100 Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut. He had served as America’s top diplomat and national security advisor during the Nixon and Ford administrations.  During this time he pursued the policy of détente which thawed relations with the Soviet Union and China. He was accused of – at the very least- tacit support for the bloody coup that overturned a leftist government in Chile. He was a polarising figure in the US, whilst he had been awarded the Nobel…

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Inflation puts US Black Friday crowds in a bargain-hunting mood FT says Bargain-hunting Americans are expected to turn out in record numbers for the start of the US holiday season, but their fatigue at higher prices is making retailers cautious and putting strain on the nation’s economic engine. Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving — traditionally kicks off America’s biggest annual shopping spree with retailers touting alluring discounts. This year, some are planning steeper markdowns to draw inflation-weary consumers into stores. The National Retail Federation expects 182mn people to shop between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. That would be 16mn…

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