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HISTORICAL FACTS: 5 - Caught on Camera

My convos with Kissinger, a man I hated

The last time I spoke with Kissinger, he rambled on about Playboy, Hugh Hefner and how great it all was “back then"

Salon

Letters to The Editor — December 1, 2023

Readers’ mail to The Hindu’s Letters to The Editor

The Hindu

Bourdain's Kissinger takedown goes viral

"Once you've been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands"

Salon

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Henry Kissinger: tributes to ‘old friend’ and ‘giant of history’ mix with criticism of controversial legacy – as it happened

Leaders of China, France, Russia and Italy pay tribute amid critical statements over his record in Latin America and Cambodia

The Guardian - US

Revisiting Anthony Bourdain’s long-time hatred of Henry Kissinger

Late chef and author was no fan of the Nixon-era secretary of state

The Independent UK

OPINION - Henry Kissinger: Globe-trotting diplomat superstar headed off World War III

Kissinger paved the way for President Nixon to go to China and retooled the policy of détente with Russia, writes Robert Fox

Evening Standard

Henry Kissinger death: Influential US diplomat, dead at 100

Former diplomat left major impact on US policy around the world

The Independent UK

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For All Mankind: space drama's alternate history constructs a better vision of Nasa

Great art is often difficult to quantify. Apple TV’s series For All Mankind is a case in point, running the risk of being too sci-fi for drama fans (rockets, moon bases, Mars) and having too much naturalistic drama for sci-fi aficionados (jealousy, divorce, institutional politics).

The Conversation

Labor to prioritise new asylum seeker claims as part of $160m package to tackle backlog

Shift to ‘last in, first out’ processing aims to break the business model of those making unmeritorious claims, immigration minister says

The Guardian - AU

Media is winning war against “fake news"

Why “factual truth” matters so much in fraught times

Salon

A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now

The legal field is in need of serious redemption

Salon

Criminal indictments are not enough

But even defeating Trump at the polls will be insufficient to secure the future of American democracy

Salon

Meet the They Cloned Tyrone cast: who's who in the Jamie Foxx comedy

They Cloned Tyrone is Jamie Foxx's new comedy film. Here's more information about the all-star cast joining him and the characters they play.

WhatToWatch

The Blacklist Said Goodbye To Reddington In A Tear-Jerking Series Finale, And One Scene Made It Work For Me

The Blacklist has ended after ten seasons, and the goodbye to Reddington might not have worked for me if not for one very specific and powerful scene.

Cinemablend

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The Week

Daniel Ellsberg: whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers

The “most important whistleblower of our times”, Daniel Ellsberg was the military analyst who smuggled hundreds of pages of top secret material about US actions in Vietnam out of his office at the Rand Corporation, and shared them with a reporter from The New York Times, said The Guardian.

The Conversation

The New York Times worried that publishing the Pentagon Papers would destroy the newspaper — and the reputation of the US

The late Daniel Ellsberg was a former government contractor who leaked the classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.

The Independent UK

Like Daniel Ellsberg, others who leaked US government secrets have been seen as traitors and heroes

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House

The Hindu

60-day freeze on prices imposed in U.S.

Fifty years ago, U.S. President Nixon ordered a 60-day freeze on all prices, including those of food, in a bid to arrest the nation’s worst bout of peacetime inflation in 25 years

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The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: The heartbreak of losing a beloved dog like Nixon

On Monday I tested positive for COVID. On Tuesday my dog died. It sounds like the start of a country and western song.

The Independent UK

Richard Snyder, ‘warrior-king’ of publishing who presided over rise of Simon & Schuster, dead at 90

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died

ABC News

Language app Feed the Monster the latest tool in battle to save endangered Warumungu language

A language app designed to help children in Syria learn Arabic is now preserving an endangered First Nations language. As a cartoon monster in the app grows, so too do children's literacy skills — and the number of people who speak Warumungu.

The Independent UK

White House Plumbers review: Woody Harrelson is terrific company but fails to lift buddy comedy out of Watergate fatigue

In the pantheon of American political calamities of the 20th century, Nixon’s scandal looks increasingly quaint

Reason

Why the Debt Limit Is (Still, Really) Constitutional

Biden still wants to explore the 14th Amendment—but it isn't a presidential authority, and the debt limit doesn't create a constitutional "trilemma."

The Guardian - US

Henry Kissinger turns 100 this week. He should be ashamed to be seen in public

Much of the world views Kissinger as a war criminal – yet in the US, surrounded by powerful friends, he is feted as a celebrity

Reason

Justice Kavanaugh's "Principal Concurrences"

On the Supreme Court, there is a hierarchy for listing opinions. The majority opinion always comes first. When the Court is fractured, and there is no clear majority, the opinion with the most support is usually listed first. When the case is an absolute cluster, sometimes the opinion by the…

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