The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.
As young men facing the draft in the 1960s learned about the conflict, they began protesting the war in massive numbers, and a critical literature developed that...
This week marks the 50-year anniversary of the end of the U.S. war against the country and people of Vietnam. Americans refer to the war as the Vietnam War, but it was actually an American war.
This war had a huge impact on me, my generation and, of course, the...
Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnam’s premier from 1954 to 1963, was a Cold War version of Volodymyr Zelensky, an American-subsidized ruler who was fawned upon by leading U.S. politicians and the U.S. media despite causing the ruin of his own country.
Lyndon B. Johnson at one point compared Diem to...
Collusion by the White House, the Pentagon, and the mainstream media resulted in disparagement, denial, and suppression of eyewitness testimony confirming that most POWs were actually well-treated by their North Vietnamese captors (in contrast to the brutal torture and death often meted out to North Vietnamese POWs by U.S....
Of course he did. And a look at the film’s funders helps to explain why.
In the fall of 2017, more than 60 million people tuned into PBS to watch Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary on the Vietnam War, which was ten years in the making and cost $30...
How the Dulles brothers, the CIA and the U.S. Navy conspired to turn a decent man into a deceitful spreader of disinformation in support of the Vietnam War
The Cold War birthed imaginary nations like East Germany and West Germany, North Korea and South Korea. By 1954 Hồ Chí Minh...
The best spies work for everyone.– Lucien Conein, legendary CIA operative.
Colonel Nguyen Mau was director of the Special Branch of the Republic of Vietnam’s national police force from 1968 to 1972. Created, funded and advised by the CIA, the Special Branch consisted of professional interrogators and agent handlers who maintained...
Called them “propagandists” and “communists trying to discredit the U.S.”
Got off the plane in Vietnam;It didn't seem like war.With all I saw, I started to wonderWhat I had come there for.Oh, the Army tried some fancy stuff,To bring them to their knees;Like Agent Orange defoliants,To kill the brush and...
A few weeks ago, an extraordinary Vietnamese war hero and a great friend of mine passed away at the age of 102. I used to play tennis with him until he was about 90 years old. Unsurprisingly, as a former tennis champion of Vietnam of the late eighties, the...
This article addresses one of the most consequential and deliberately obscured chapters in American history: President John F. Kennedy’s potentially planned strategic withdrawal from Vietnam, its abrupt reversal under Lyndon B. Johnson, and the documentary evidence suggesting foreknowledge of policy transformation.
The focus centers on National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM)...
