When Henry Kissinger died, various obituaries struggled to sound respectful while recounting his long history of war crimes and dastardly deeds. Woke Points, on the other hand, will not be burdened with that struggle.

Ted and Marni are joined by Danae Hendrickson of Legacies of War to discuss the Secret War that Kissinger led in Laos and Cambodia during the (far-from-secret) war in Vietnam. Together we discuss the devastating impacts that 2 million tons of bombs dropped on Laos in the 1960s and '70s still have to this day.  Danae shares her personal history with The Secret War and the important work of Legacies of War and other NGOs striving to shed light on, and ameliorate the continued harm of,  the war and its aftermath.

Resources from this episode:

• The New England Review of Henry Kissinger Obituaries
• Henry Kissinger, the Devil at the Dinner Party
• Henry Kissinger Dead at 100
• Why Laos Has Been Bombed More than Any Other Country
• Kennedy and Khrushchev Agree on Neutrality for Laos
• Tham Piew Cave
• Biden: sending cluster munitions to Ukraine was ‘difficult decision,’ but ‘they needed them'
• Convention on Cluster Munitions
• Mother of Five Killed by UXO
• Legacies of War's The Originals

Books:

• Jessica Pearce Rotondi, What We Inherit
• Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine
• Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

Who to Support:

• Legacies of War
• MAG International
• COPE
• APOPO

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

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