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As Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Here Are Some of Its Worst Winners

Report: Kissinger Urged Trump Policy of Pursuing Russia to Contain China

Kissinger is known as the figure who pushed the U.S. into its devastating Cold War interventions in Angola, Cambodia, Chile, East Timor, Cambodia, and Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands died as a result of the actions of the U.S. Armed Forces and/or CIA.

President Donald Trump meets with Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under President Richard Nixon, in the Oval Office of the White House, May 10, 2017, in Washington. Evan Vucci | AP

WASHINGTON – As President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki last week faced withering criticism for everything ranging from his “fondness for strongmen” to alleged “treason,” the geostrategic objectives of his attempt to advance détente were largely ignored or taken at face value alone. Yet Trump’s own

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Is Trump’s “Friend” Kissinger Steering Him From Calm To Storm?

Henry Kissinger, seemingly returned from oblivion, has been in the ear of “old friend” Trump since mid-primary season, just after Trump declared himself open to negotiation with North Korea. Since that moment, Trump’s stance and rhetoric have veered inexorably toward war.

President Donald Trump meets with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump met with top defense officials Tuesday morning -- including Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Joseph Dunford -- in the White House Situation Room, to discuss potential options for responding to any North Korean “aggression” as well as how to prevent North Korea from threatening the

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Henry Kissinger’s Food Occupation Of Iraq Continues To Destroy The Fertile Crescent

Iraqi agriculture expert Dr. Nakd Altameemi joins Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline’ to discuss the devastating toll that war, sanctions and Western corporations have had on Iraq’s centuries-old agricultural traditions.

From left, farmers Mehdi Jassim, Jassim Omran and Hassan Hassin work in a farm field at dawn in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

The Iraq of today is associated with horrific violence, a refugee crisis and widespread poverty. The images we see flashed across the news show nothing but terror and misery. But it hasn't always been this way. Modern-day Iraq lies in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization where mankind flourished as it developed seed

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Kissinger Urging Trump To Accept Crimea As Part Of Russia

While Trump is eager to differentiate himself from Obama, such a reverse on Crimea would likely lead to a major backlash from Republican hawk.

Former Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger speaks at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

(REPORT) — Reports suggest that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has sought to advise President-elect Donald Trump on a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, and that a key aspect of that is encouraging Trump to accept Crimea as part of the Russian Federation. Crimea has a long complicated history, but has long served as

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Don’t Jump To Conclusions About Trump, War Criminal Kissinger Says

‘I hope and believe that in the decades ahead, the United States will continue to fulfill its history and tradition of building world peace,’ said Henry Kissinger, the American diplomat known for shaping some of the country’s most brutal foreign policy decisions.

Former Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger speaks at the Vietnam War Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Speaking to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Oslo, Norway, Henry Kissinger shared his hopes for the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. “Before postulating an inevitable crisis, an opportunity should be given to the new administration to put forward its vision of international order,” Kissinger said in the speech on Sunday.

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Groups Demand Arrest Of ‘War Mastermind’ Kissinger At Nobel Peace Prize Forum

Nobel Peace Prize committee honors Kissinger a second time with speaking engagement at new forum on world peace.

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The Nobel Peace Prize committee last month stunned many observers by choosing Henry Kissinger—the former secretary of state behind the secret American bombing of Cambodia and who supported Argentina's "dirty wars," among other things—to  speak at a forum on "The United States and World Peace after the Presidential Election." In response, on

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