Tag: Vietnam War
Southeast Asia Was Hit By a Record-Breaking Disaster; It Was Called the United States
In the United States people call it “the Vietnam war.” In Vietnam and other souteast Asian countries, it’s called the American war.
The CIA Owns the US and European Media
The last thing the Washington Post can afford to do is disabuse readers of the “Russian Threat” when its owner is a CIA contractor.
The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
The legacy of Dr. King, as presented in mainstream media, has become about the whitewashing of a racist, militaristic and materialistic system, although King himself championed the exact opposite.
Parallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine
Empowering and charismatic resilience is the core identity of the Vietnamese and the Palestinian people, their point of most profound convergence.
PBS’s Vietnam Acknowledges Nixon’s Treason
One redeeming thing about PBS’s documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ is its acknowledgment of how Richard Nixon treasonously prolonged the criminal violence.
Vietghanistan’s New Year, War Lies’ New Millennium
If Ken Burns ever makes a documentary about the Afghanistan war, it will no doubt avoid acknowledging the wisdom of those who’ve opposed it from the start.
Cambodia Targeted by Globalists for “Color Revolution”?
Prime Minister Hun Sen has acted to prevent Cambodia from becoming subservient to Washington, which makes his government a target for regime change.
Our Age of Folly
As I read Lapham, every age has been one of folly, and America has been abandoning its democracy from day one, if America ever had a democracy to abandon.
Wartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
Omer wrote this book about Israel’s 51-day assault on Gaza in 2014 to tell the world about the war from the perspective of those enduring it.
Is the Middle East America’s to Lose?
The colonialist idea of the US “losing” a country or a whole region should be banned from the political discourse of the 21st century.
VICTORY IN VIETNAM! (History and Reflections)
The US has been the world’s principal mass killer since the end of WWII, but Americans support or are indifferent to its violence.
On Burning People Alive
When we revile ISIS, we should remember the magnitude of our own massive premeditated murders and our own original sins.
This is What War Does
For an institution which quite literally dominates human history, it is a remarkable that the real face of war is never seen by most people.
Vietnam Replay
As a proud draft dodger, who deplores the crimes committed by US policy and the US military, I simply must ask:. How long must this go on?
ISIS, Militarism, and the Violent Imagination
Militarist geopolitics seems destined to lead to yet another Western catastrophe in the tormented Middle East.
The Death of a Giant: Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who helped defeat Japan, then France, then the United States in a 35-year war for national independence, died in Hanoi on Oct. 4 at the age of 102.
