Tag: Vietnam War
The CIA Owns the US and European Media
Aug 20, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
The last thing the Washington Post can afford to do is disabuse readers of the “Russian Threat” when its owner is a CIA contractor.
Read MoreThe Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
Jan 25, 2018 | Viewpoints, Politics, US
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.
Read MoreParallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine
Dec 1, 2017 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Palestine, Politics
Empowering and charismatic resilience is the core identity of the Vietnamese and the Palestinian people, their point of most profound convergence.
Read MorePBS’s Vietnam Acknowledges Nixon’s Treason
Oct 13, 2017 | Viewpoints, Asia Pacific, Reviews
One redeeming thing about PBS’s documentary ‘The Vietnam War’ is its acknowledgment of how Richard Nixon treasonously prolonged the criminal violence.
Read MoreVietghanistan’s New Year, War Lies’ New Millennium
Oct 6, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
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.
Read MoreCambodia Targeted by Globalists for “Color Revolution”?
Oct 2, 2017 | Essays, Asia Pacific, Politics
Prime Minister Hun Sen has acted to prevent Cambodia from becoming subservient to Washington, which makes his government a target for regime change.
Read MoreOur Age of Folly
Mar 10, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US
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.
Read MoreWartime 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.
Read MoreIs the Middle East America’s to Lose?
Jun 15, 2015 | Middle East, News & Analysis, US
The colonialist idea of the US “losing” a country or a whole region should be banned from the political discourse of the 21st century.
Read MoreVICTORY IN VIETNAM! (History and Reflections)
Apr 30, 2015 | Asia Pacific, US, Viewpoints
The US has been the world’s principal mass killer since the end of WWII, but Americans support or are indifferent to its violence.
Read MoreOn Burning People Alive
Feb 10, 2015 | US, Viewpoints
When we revile ISIS, we should remember the magnitude of our own massive premeditated murders and our own original sins.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreVietnam Replay
Oct 13, 2014 | US, Viewpoints
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?
Read MoreISIS, Militarism, and the Violent Imagination
Sep 20, 2014 | Middle East, News & Analysis
Militarist geopolitics seems destined to lead to yet another Western catastrophe in the tormented Middle East.
Read MoreThe Death of a Giant: Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap
Oct 16, 2013 | Asia Pacific, Essays, US
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.
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