Tag: United States
Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism
On September 1, 1987, S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, was run over by a train outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Northern California while trying to block munitions shipments to the Nicaraguan...
April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, which lasted roughly from 1962 to 1975.
In the United States, a revisionism has long taken hold in which American soldiers have been imagined as victims of perfidious communist governments.
For the people of Indochina, however, the...
The assassin was in the pay of a police general trained by the CIA who functioned as the hatchet man of another CIA asset.
On April 1, 1963, Quinim Pholsena, Laos’s Foreign Minister and head of the “Peace and Neutrality” party, was shot and killed as he walked up...
Set the groundwork for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and torture chambers across the Middle East in the Global War on Terror
In the summer of 1970, Tom Harkin, a U.S. senator from Iowa from 1985-2015, was a congressional staffer invited to be part of a delegation that was sent to...
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...
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...
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...
Similar to the way American conscientious objectors were treated in World War I
On December 26, 2023, Tal Mitnick, then 18, entered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) enlistment center in Tel Aviv and publicly announced that he would refuse military service.
Subsequently, he was forced to serve 185 days in a...
Part I in a two-part series
In December, the rapid fall of the Syrian government to Western-backed jihadists stunned the world and sparked a wide range of reactions amid the fallout. Unsurprisingly, the collective West was quick to celebrate the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, a long-time U.S. foreign policy objective...
April 20th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, which killed 11 workers and spilled 134 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. For those who rely on fishing and related industries off the Gulf Coast, as well as for those who were involved in the recovery and cleanup efforts, real relief is still yet to come...
