More languages
More actions
Madeleine Albright | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Marie Jana Korbelová May 15, 1937 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| Died | March 23, 2022 (aged 84) Washington, D.C., United States |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Political orientation | Imperialism |
| Political party | Democratic |
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was a Statesian politician and diplomat who served as Secretary of State of the United States from 1997 to 2001 under Bill Clinton. Previously she served on the National Security Council under mentor Zbigniew Brzeziński and as US ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.
Albright is lauded in bourgeois media as a feminist champion due to her being the first female Secretary of State, but in reality she shared the same policies as her white male colleagues. She is an example of gender being used to whitewash imperialism, with Albright having been involved in bombing Iraq and Yugoslavia among others and pushing for further U.S. military action.[1]
Early life
Marie Jana Korbelová was born on May 15, 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to a Jewish family, although Albright claims that she was unaware of her Jewish heritage until later in life. She was the eldest of the three children of Anna Spieglová and Czech diplomat Josef Korbel, and experienced a privileged bourgeois upbringing despite the challenges of travel. Following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, the family fled to escape persecution, arriving in the UK in 1939. Her father worked in Edvard Beneš' Czechoslovak government in exile for the duration of the Second World War.[2]
Secretary of State
In 1996, she said that the sanctions against Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of children, were "worth it."[3]
Albright was also involved in the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia and was accused of hate speech against Serbs.[4]
References
- ↑ Liza Featherstone (2022-03-24). "Madeleine Albright Was a Killer" Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2024-12-18.
- ↑ Godfrey Hodgson (2022-03-23). "Madeleine Albright obituary" The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2024-12-19.
- ↑ Gloria Oladipo (2022-03-23). "‘A trailblazer’: political leaders pay tribute to Madeleine Albright" Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ↑ Deana Kjuka (2012-10-29). "Madeleine Albright's Scrap With Pro-Serbian Activists in a Prague Bookstore" The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-03-24.