Stephen Kinzer

@stephenkinzer

Author & journalist. Former NY Times foreign correspondent. Boston Globe columnist. Senior Fellow for Intl. and Public Affairs

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  1. 6 hours ago

    I will be moderating the discussion after this film -- tune in at 8 PM EST tonight for what promises to be a highly motivating evening.

    Wow, check out this trailer. Premieres tonight! 👇🏻
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    10 hours ago

    ⭐EXCITING NEWS⭐ A big thank you to who will be our moderator this evening for our Q&A part of the evening. An author & journalist Stephen is a former Foreign Correspondent & columnist JOIN US TONIGHT 🎫

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    Sep 19

    my least favorite journalism is scoop journalism sourced exactly on one anonymous intelligence official with something bad to share about a country that the US is hostile toward. it’s lazy yet professionally profitable journalism that is little more than indirect state propaganda

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  4. Sep 20

    Don’t quite know how to react to the way Turkish TV covers the NBA playoffs, which are hugely popular there. is an outspoken critic of President Erdogan so broadcasters are forbidden to mention his name—odd silence or irrelevant comments whenever he gets the ball.

    Enes Kanter has reached 200 career defensive rebounds in the Playoffs NBA Alerts
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    Sep 19

    One of my favorite Stephen Cohen moments is this 2018 debate w/ chickenhawk . Steve gave Boot (& ) a clinic in history & civil debate. Full interview here: Boot got humiliated for personal insults & trying to criminalize diplomacy:

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    Sep 18

    And they say the Slovenes have no sense of humor...

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    A new bronze statue of first lady Melania Trump was unveiled in Slovenia this week, after a wooden version of the memorial was burned in July.
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  7. Sep 19

    Loss of is bad for America but could have one benefit. Trump knows he's losing & desperately needs to divert attention away from the pandemic. Now he has the issue. This could mean he won't feel pushed to accept 's plans to bomb or invade

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    Sep 18

    book “Poisoner in Chief” should be required reading for all Americans.

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    Sep 18

    In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.

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  10. Sep 18

    Hard to imagine a more fulfilling lockdown diversion: full video reading of organized by . No book tells more about who and where we are as Americans. I read one chapter, "The Whiteness of the Whale," at 24:40 of Part 4.

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    Sep 17

    American efforts to paint socialist leader Nicolás Maduro as a bad leader for Venezuela have only contributed to impoverishing millions of Venezuelans, writes .

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    Sep 16

    Nowhere in the Western Hemisphere is the US more deeply complicit in making ordinary people suffer, with less reason, than in Venezuela Fine article by reminding us how the US can be a force for bad in places that already have plenty of bad

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    Sep 16

    Opinion piece by Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the at : Back off of Venezuela already via

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    Sep 16

    They should be. “Top American officials could be charged with war crimes for approving bomb sales to the Saudis and their partners.”

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    Sep 15

    Just about to finish "The Brothers" by . For anyone else who reads it, here is a handy map I made. The countries John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles screwed over in the 50s and 60s are highlighted in yellow.

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  16. Sep 15

    By a 169-2 vote, UN General Assembly has passed a non-binding resolution urging "intensified international cooperation and solidarity to contain, mitigate and overcome the pandemic and its consequences." Take a wild guess which 2 countries were opposed.

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  17. Sep 15

    Mayoral elections in are held in off-years, leading to low voter turnout and an electorate dominated by city employees, contractors and their families. That's why no incumbent has been defeated since 1949. An exciting challenger wants to beat those odds.

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    It’s official: I’m running for Mayor because Boston should be a city for everyone. Now’s the time for bold, urgent leadership. Help fuel our movement: 👐
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    Sep 14

    This is an insane story. The FBI tried to coerce an Iranian scientist in America into spying on Iran. When he said no, they accused *him* of spying. When a judge threw out the case, they threw him in ICE detention, where he caught coronavirus.

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  19. Sep 14

    "How Our Presidential Election Could Reshape the World" Join Foreign Correspondent and host Christopher Lydon via ZOOM, Tuesday, September 15, at 7:00 PM.

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    Sep 13

    I am reading Overthrow by and while I have always thought myself well versed in American imperialism, this book contains some shocking revelations for me.

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