Tag: Vietnam
CIA Oversaw Hideous Torture in Con Son’s Tiger Cages and Other Prison Facilities in Vietnam
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 2
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...
American Diplomats Dismissed Vietnamese Scientists Who Reported on Horrific Health and Environmental Effects of Agent Orange as Late as the Early 2000s
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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...
Did Legendary Filmmaker Ken Burns—Whose Documentary Revealed Harsh Truths About the Civil War—Intentionally Hide Harsh Truths About the Vietnam War to Whitewash the CIA?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 1
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...
Is Revival of Draft the Only Way to Revive Mass Antiwar Protests Capable of Ending America’s Forever Wars?
Jeremy Kuzmarov - 0
About ten years ago, I attended a lecture by noted anti-war author Andrew Bacevich, a professor of international relations at Boston University and former Army colonel whose son died in Iraq.
Bacevich provided critical commentary on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and then advocated for restoring the draft...
Fifty Five Years Ago, Toronto College Students Enacted a Covert Operation That Led the Canadian Government to Admit Vietnam War Deserters Into Canada
Bob Waller - 0
Who Says That Young People Cannot Affect Change
The war in Vietnam was a defining event from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s for university students in Canada, especially young men, including those of us at Glendon College.
We watched as our American contemporaries were drafted and sent to fight in...
Murder of Anti-Vietnam War Monk Thomas Merton in 1968 Was a CIA Hit Linked with Assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, New Book Argues
Phillip F. Nelson - 3
Famous Black Like Me author John Howard Griffin, who was recruited under CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, appears to have played an important role in the cover-up
For five decades, the circumstances of the sudden death of the famed anti-Vietnam War monk Thomas Merton have remained cloaked in the confusion of assorted...
Vietnamese National Hero, Colonel Đặng Văn Việt, Who Helped Vietnam End Its Colonial Scourge, Dies at Age 102
Felix Abt - 1
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...