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Friday, September 29, 2017


Vietnam '67 

Historians, veterans and journalists recall 1967 in Vietnam, 

a year that changed the war and changed America.


Opinion - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/column/vietnam-67?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=Collection&region=Marginalia&src=me&version=column&pgtype=article
  1. The Tiger Force Atrocities

    In 1967, a single Army platoon killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians, and no one was held responsible.
    By MICHAEL SALLAH
    Sept. 26, 2017
  2. How Vietnam Killed the Great Society

    By the fall of 1967, Lyndon Johnson had finally realized that he could not fund guns and butter.
    By MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE
    Sept. 23, 2017
  3. Discussing ‘The Vietnam War’

    What do you think of the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick?
    Sept. 19, 2017
  4. How Not to ‘Win Hearts and Minds’

    America’s failure to understand Vietnam’s culture and people doomed the war effort.
    By GEORGE C. HERRING
    Sept. 19, 2017
  5. What Trump Needs to Learn From Vietnam

    The stalemate strategy didn’t work there. It won’t in Afghanistan either.
    By DAVID ELLIOTT
    Sept. 16, 2017
  6. The Forgotten Victims of Agent Orange

    The United States has acknowledged the horrifying effects of Agent Orange on its military veterans. Why won’t it do the same for Vietnamese citizens?
    By VIET THANH NGUYEN and RICHARD HUGHES
    Sept. 16, 2017
  7. South Vietnam Had an Antiwar Movement, Too

    Like most students in the United States, most South Vietnamese students only wanted the violence and fighting to stop.
    By VAN NGUYEN MARSHALL
    Sept. 15, 2017
  8. See Beautiful Vietnam!

    In 1967, South Vietnam was at war — but it was also busy promoting itself as a tourist destination.
    By SCOTT LADERMAN
    Sept. 12, 2017
  9. What I Saw on the Way to the Revolution

    In 1967, I dropped out of college to be an artist. Six months later, I was a violent radical. What happened?
    By JONATHAN LERNER
    Sept. 12, 2017
  10. The Cold Warrior Who Never Apologized

    Walt Rostow, an M.I.T. professor turned national security adviser, epitomized the overweening confidence of the civilian strategists of Vietnam.
    By JONATHAN STEVENSON
    Sept. 9, 2017












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Vietnam War Protesters have NOTHING to Apologize For 
When patriotism and pro-war become synonymous.

By David Zeiger
Published on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Common Dreams

(Photo: Author David Zeiger with active duty GIs demonstrating on Armed Forces Day, 1971)


How many times have you heard, or even said yourself, something like this: It was beyond cruel what was done to Viet Nam vets. I protested the war but not the soldiers who'd been thru hell.

That’s a comment made on my Facebook page when I posted Jerry Lembcke’s very insightful review of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s series, The Vietnam War. Lembcke points out that the series promotes the established narrative that for Vietnam vets, the experience of coming home to a “hostile” public was “more traumatic than the war itself.” 

As I will discuss here, Lembcke, a Vietnam veteran and Associate Professor Emeritus at Holy Cross College, has dedicated much of his life to countering and disproving that narrative.

Now take a close look at the above statement. I protested the war but not the soldiers who’d been thru hell. The implication is, of course, that while this person didn’t do it, others must have “protested the soldiers,” referring to the ubiquitous stories of soldiers and veterans being harassed, hounded, called baby killers and spat on by a variety of protesters and, as the stories usually go, “long haired hippies.” Actually, this particular comment was part of a string of responses to someone who claimed he was “urinated on while in uniform.”

That the returning Vietnam veterans were “spat on and called baby killers” has now reached the level of gospel truth, most distressingly among those who were themselves part of the very movement being vilified by those claims. No one saw or was a party to such attacks, yet everyone “knows” it happened. Someone must have done it, or why would so many people claim it was done to them?

Why indeed. Answering that one question sheds a lot of light on how and why the relationship between the antiwar movement and the veterans of that war has been widely, and very effectively, rewritten–a rewrite that has gone virtually unchallenged by those who were there and who, frankly, know better. 

Today, four generations after the Vietnam War, the mythology of mistreated veterans continues to play a profoundly powerful role in stifling protest against America’s wars in the name of “supporting the troops.” And with Donald Trump threatening to “Completely destroy North Korea” while unleashing the military in the Middle East, nothing could be more urgent than confronting that myth.

First, some personal background. From 1970 to 1972 I was on the staff of the Oleo Strut, a GI Coffeehouse in Killeen, Texas, just outside of Ft. Hood, home to tens of thousands of Vietnam returnees who still had six months or more left to serve. The Oleo Strut, like dozens of GI Coffeehouses near bases around the country, was a place where soldiers could find literature about the antiwar and Third World liberation movements, discuss and debate the war with both civilians and fellow GIs, and, most significantly, build their own movement against the war and the military. 

For two years I helped them distribute their underground paper, The Fatigue Press, with a monthly press run of 5,000. In 1971, I helped plan and organize an “Armed Farces Day” demonstration against the war right outside the gates of Ft. Hood that over two thousand GIs participated in.

Statistics and a wealth of documentary evidence from that time show that my experience at Ft. Hood was the norm, not the exception. The GI Movement of 1968-1973 was so all-pervasive that Col. Robert Heinl famously wrote that it had “infected the entire armed services.” 

Historian James Lewes has documented over 500 different GI underground newspapers (available online at the Wisconsin Historical Society), along with dozens of organizations from GIs United Against the War to clandestine Black Panther chapters in the military. 

A 1972 study commissioned by the Department of Defense found that 51% of all troops in Vietnam had engaged in “some form of protest,” from wearing a peace sign on uniforms, to desertion (over 500,000 “Incidents of desertion” in the course of the war), demonstrations, and outright mutiny (including the widespread practice of “fragging”–troops killing their own officers). 

And by 1972 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a highly visible, major force across the country. The widespread picture of a military full of soldiers “doing their duty” while privileged civilians protested and hurled insults at them is, to put it bluntly, a lie.

In 2005, at the height of Iraq war, I made the film Sir! No Sir! That film, broadcast in over 200 countries around the world, told the story of the GI Movement, a story that had been erased from just about every history of the Vietnam war. 

In Sir! No Sir!, Jerry Lembcke makes the point that the reality of thousands of GIs and veterans opposing the war had been replaced by the myth of hippies spitting on them, and it was that contention that drew the ire and attacks from pro war veterans who hounded several critics who had praised the film.

But Lembcke is the only person I am aware of who has thoroughly researched the claims of veterans being spat on and the broader insistence that they were shunned and attacked by the antiwar movement. He wrote about his findings in his 1998 book, The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam, a must-read for everyone who wants to know how veterans were actually treated by the antiwar movement. 

Here are just a few tidbits of what his research revealed.

To begin with, over the entire course of the war there is not a shred of documentary evidence that any spitting incidents occurred. No articles in newspapers or magazines, no letters to the editor, no television news stories, no FBI reports, no arrests or complaints filed with police. Nothing. Not even Stars and Stripes, voice of the military, reported on any spitting incidents. And in an era that was heavily documented with photographs, including by the GIs themselves (Lembcke points out that Pentax cameras were sold at PXs and were the camera of choice among the troops, not unlike cell phones today), not one photo of a veteran being spat on exists.

The stories that are told almost always happen in public, usually at airports and coming from crowds of demonstrators whose goal is to humiliate the returning troops. We are told that commanding officers warned GIs they’d be spat on when they returned home, that they should throw away their uniform to protect themselves. Yet no one alerted the cops, or military authorities, or the press? We’re talking about assault here. Wouldn’t the FBI, whose goal throughout the nineteen sixties was to thwart and undermine the antiwar movement, have arrested at least one spitter? There were, if the stories are to be believed, hundreds—even thousands—of them. And what about the press? Soldiers at airports being routinely abused and spat on would certainly have gotten to the media, who would, as Lembcke points out, “been camping in the lobby of the San Francisco airport, cameras in hand, just waiting for a chance to record the real thing–if, that is, they had any reason to believe that such incidents might occur.”

The simple fact is that between 1965 and 1975 no one was claiming to have been spat on. Okay, so maybe they were spat on metaphorically, as the increasingly popular expression goes. I have seen several people who initially claim they were spat on, when challenged, change the story to a version of “Well, I wasn’t literally spat on, but I may as well have been.” When the gentleman who claimed on my Facebook post to have been urinated on was challenged by several people, his story became “I ducked into a bar to get away from the jerks.” Who the “jerks” were was never explained.

But again, that’s not what vets were saying back in the day. As Lembcke writes, “A U.S. Senate study, based on data collected in August 1971 by Harris Associates, found that 75 percent of Vietnam era veterans polled disagreed with the statement, ‘Those people at home who opposed the Vietnam war often blame veterans for our involvement there.’ Ninety-nine percent of the veterans polled described their reception by close friends and family as friendly, while 94 percent said their reception by people their own age who had not served in the armed forces was friendly. Only 3 percent of returning veterans described their reception as ‘not at all friendly.’” (Emphasis added)

And just like the spitting stories, there is no documentary evidence of antiwar activists screaming “baby killer!” at soldiers and veterans. In fact, as every activist who looks honestly at their history can attest, it was the government and military machine that was consistently targeted, not the soldiers. “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?!” was one of the most popular chants, until it was Richard Nixon doing the killing.

So where did this idea of vets being called “baby killer” come from? A plausible source is the My Lai massacre poster. 

In March of 1968, over 500 unarmed civilians–men, women, and children–were systematically gunned down by a company of GIs in the 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. The military covered up the My Lai massacre for over a year until it was exposed by journalist Seymour Hersh. Caught in their coverup, the military indicted 22 soldiers and Lt. Calley, the officer on the scene, for the murders. It was the military, not the movement, who “blamed the troops” when the results of their murderous policies were exposed.

In the wake of My Lai, the poster produced by the antiwar movement featured a horrific photograph of bodies piled up in the village. There were only two lines of text: “And babies? And babies.”


I know this powerful poster well because we had it in the Oleo Strut and reproduced it in the Fatigue Press to be seen by thousands of soldiers. Why? Because it embodied the criminal nature of the war they were forced to fight. I imagine some people took it personally, but it should go without saying that the intent was never to accuse all soldiers of being baby killers, but to confront them with the hard reality of the war and bring them into the movement. Should we, in the name of “Honoring the troops,” not have exposed and condemned the My Lai massacre?

Were there angry debates about the war, from dinner tables to street corners to campuses? Absolutely. Were there demonstrations outside military bases, as the purveyors of spitting stories complain about? Of Course–but, as in my own experience, those demonstrations were more often than not led by veterans and active duty soldiers who targeted the government, not their fellow GIs. 

Did antiwar activists argue with everyone, including veterans, that the United States was engaged in a criminal, genocidal invasion that targeted civilians? Most definitely, as well they should have. Did those arguments at times get more than a bit personal (“You support genocide!”)? Yes they did, and understandably so. That was the nature of the times, and the urgency of ending the slaughter that was the Vietnam War.

In one report I read recently, a veteran described how isolated and uncomfortable he felt at the college he attended. He couldn’t express his opinions in discussions about Vietnam, despite his service. It turns out the college he attended was Berkeley, and he supported the war. I was struck by this, because anyone who openly supported the war at Berkeley was bound to be verbally pummeled. It would be kind of like advocating slavery at an NAACP convention. But his discomfort most likely had nothing to do with the fact that he was a veteran, it was his support for the war that was under attack.

And that’s exactly the point. The debate in society was about the war, and veterans were as much a part of that debate as everyone else, if not more so. Veterans were not a monolithic group. 

Those who opposed the war, and there were thousands, were welcomed with open arms by the antiwar movement, becoming a leading force in the country as Vietnam Veterans Against the War. 

It was veterans, particularly in VVAW, who exposed most vividly the policies of the government and military–carpet bombing, free fire zones, body count, and the unprecedented use of napalm and agent orange. These were the official weapons and strategies employed by the U.S. in Vietnam. And it was those strategies that made Vietnam a genocidal war filled with the atrocities so vehemently, and rightly, denounced by the antiwar movement.

So what happened? How did “The reception from my peers was friendly,” get turned into “I was spat on and traumatized?” 

This is the heart of the matter, and the question Lembcke devotes most of his book to answering. The short answer is that it was the result of a highly effective, decades long campaign by many forces in society bent on casting blame for America’s defeat in the war not on the government and the nature of the war itself, but on the supposed “betrayal” of the soldiers by the antiwar movement. By turning veterans into victims of angry mobs of protesters, those seeking more wars of conquest hoped to isolate and suppress any opposition in the name of “Supporting the troops.” And no one did more to advance that cause than Ronald Reagan.

Although the charge against the antiwar movement of “Disloyalty to the troops” was pushed by Richard Nixon as early as 1969, the spitting stories didn’t fully emerge until the mid-1980s, fifteen years after the war, which is itself strong evidence of their mythical nature. Most significantly, they sprang up while the Reagan administration was secretly funding reactionary armies in Latin America and railing against what he called the “Vietnam Syndrome”–the reluctance of most Americans to support sending troops into Third World countries. 

Shaming the antiwar movement was key to that campaign, and the spitting stories, eagerly told by a handful of pro-war veterans (the 3 percent of the above survey), did the trick.

Hollywood did their part as well, producing a wave of fantasy revenge films starting in the late seventies. Top of the heap was Sylvester Stallone’s wildly popular First Blood (1982) and Rambo: First Blood II (1985), in which a bulked-up, testosterone-filled caricature of a Vietnam vet single-handedly takes out his revenge first on an uncaring America, then on the bloodthirsty Vietnamese. First Blood featured the absurd scenario of Rambo, a former Green Beret and highly trained killer, whining that “hippies” spat on him at an airport. Those hippies sure were a powerful bunch!

The spitting stories hit their zenith when America did send large numbers of troops overseas, to the Middle East, for the first Gulf war in 1990. Iraq had occupied Kuwait, claiming it was part of their territory (Kuwait’s borders had been created by British colonialists in the early Twentieth Century). 

As the first Bush administration was flailing around looking for a justification to invade, huge demonstrations were held across the country demanding no invasion. But once the troops were sent, the media was filled with stories of young boys fearful–not of facing battle, but of the folks back home.

Once again, horror stories were spread about the treatment of Vietnam vets, along with dire warnings, including from protest leaders, to not repeat the “mistakes” of the nineteen sixties. Congressman John Murtha visited the troops in the Gulf and reported in the New York Times that troops repeatedly asked him whether the “folks back home” supported them. “The aura of Vietnam hangs over these kids,” he said. “Their parents were in it. They’ve seen all these movies. They worry, they wonder.” With that, the “reason” for the war became supporting “our boys in harm’s way.” The demonstrations evaporated, replaced by yellow ribbons.

And that, of course, has both continued and intensified to this day. I’m a baseball fan, and every Dodgers game I attend includes a “Salute to a hero” ceremony, with thousands of fans standing and cheering as the veteran’s deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are ticked off. You have to be blind to not see that, in the name of “honoring” this individual, it is the wars themselves that are being cheered. But woe to anyone who would actually say that. It’s okay to oppose those wars, as long as you are very careful to never imply that soldiers are committing war crimes and always say “Thank you for your service.” Is it surprising in this atmosphere that there is, today, no anti-war movement?

As the saying goes, a lie repeated often enough becomes the “truth.” The Burns/Novick Vietnam War series ends with Nancy Biberman, a Columbia University student activist, asking forgiveness for calling veterans “baby killers.” 

I’ll go out on a limb and say that Ms. Biderman never called veterans baby killers. Maybe she now believes that even mentioning the thousands of civilians killed by U.S. forces in Vietnam is tantamount to doing just that. Maybe she thinks that others must have done those horrible things we have heard about and every antiwar activist should now atone for their sins.

Both are a surrender to the lie. And both are, despite intentions, an open door to more wars and more slaughter.

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David Zeiger
David Zeiger was a civilian organizer from 1970-72, for the GI Movement against the war at Ft. Hood, Texas. As a documentary filmmaker, he has produced and directed several award-winning features and series. His 2006 film, Sir! No Sir!, was broadcast in over 200 countries worldwide.
Check out his website:  http://www.displacedfilms.com/

 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/27/vietnam-war-protesters-have-nothing-apologize
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Thursday, September 28, 2017



Viet Nam: The Day Our War Began

By Lady Borton
September 24, 2017  
                                                                                               

For years, I wondered when the American War in Viet Nam began. I kept looking for documents showing who, what, where, when, and why.

The day our war began is August 22, 1945.





In this photograph from the Harry S. Truman Library, taken on the afternoon of August 22, 1945, French Provisional President General Charles de Gaulle is standing on the left with U.S. President Harry S. Truman on the right in front of the White House during the welcoming ceremony for de Gaulle’s state visit to Washington (August 22‒24, 1945). In the next row are two top-level military officers from each country, France and the United States. In the last row are two staff-level officers for de Gaulle and Truman, but all of them are Americans. The two Americans on the French side traveled with de Gaulle from Paris.

As soon as I returned to Ha Noi from the Truman Library, I showed this photograph to Mr. Pham Tran Long, deputy-director at The Gioi (World Publishers), Viet Nam’s foreign-languages press. Mr. Long has excellent English.

“I spy Johnson!” he said.

Look again. Lyndon Baines Johnson is on the right, standing in the wings.

    U.S. State Department records list de Gaulle’s priorities for his visit:

“1. The Pacific in general and Indochina in particular.”

    Another pre-visit cable notes that France would assure “ʻAmerican and British interest in the future of Indochina, … the only real foothold on the Asiatic mainland for the occidental democracies (France, Great Britain and the US).ʼ”

Until the end of World War II, “Viet Nam” and “Vietnam” did not exist in international parlance. World maps in the West labeled Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam as “French Indochina,” even though the Japanese invasion of Viet Nam in 1940 had toppled the French colonial regime. Provisional President General de Gaulle held that France was not France without her colonies. He wanted to take back for France Viet Nam’s lucrative raw materials, rice-basket deltas, and strategic location.

General de Gaulle, already a hero in the United States as a leader of the Free French, was famous for his magnetism and bravado. After his state visit in Washington, de Gaulle and his senior officers traveled with senior U.S. military brass to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, then to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, and then to New York City for a ticker-tape parade. Those trips cemented the French and American military leaders’ relationships, sealing the base for the nine-year (1945‒1954) French-American military partnership in Viet Nam.

Why did de Gaulle seal this partnership so easily?

A seldom named villain is Winston Churchill.

British National Archives for this period show the most time-consuming worry at British Cabinet meetings: Gandhi’s hunger-strike protest for India’s independence.

At Yalta, U.S. President Roosevelt suggested a twenty-to-thirty-year independence mentoring process for French colonies. However, his vision held implications for other mother countries. Roosevelt had not consulted British Prime Minister Churchill, who erupted at Yalta on February 9, 1945, announcing he would not tolerate other nations “interfering in the British Empire.” After Churchill's stand, international trusteeships became each colonial power's domain. De Gaulle asserted France's mother-country right to Indochina.

But what about the Vietnamese?

Look at another photograph, this one taken in Ha Noi one week after the image of de Gaulle and Truman in Washington.



Ho Chi Minh, proverbial cigarette in hand (he is said to have favored Marlboros), stands with the DRVN (Democratic Republic of Viet Nam) Provisional Government on September 3, the day after President Ho read Viet Nam’s Declaration of Independence. Five ministers or deputy ministers are not shown. Vo Nguyen Giap (later the victorious general over the French and the U.S. military) is on the left of the first row; Pham Van Dong (later Viet Nam’s longest serving prime minister in modern history) is on the left of the third row.

Everyone in the photograph was educated. Five ministers held law degrees, with one of those law degrees from France. Two held medical degrees, with one of those medical degrees from France. One held an advanced degree in the humanities, another in agricultural science, and another in engineering. One had attended Ho Chi Minh’s third political-training class in Canton (Guangzhou) in the mid-1920s. Two came from two different ethnic minorities and had studied through high school. At least four held “advanced degrees from prestigious French institutions,” which is Vietnamese slang for the classes that revolutionaries secretly organized while detained in French political prisons. Only two-fifths were communists; the majority came from other political parties.

Most important: All were patriots. All were capable. All were dedicated.

Ho Chi Minh had lived and worked overseas for nearly thirty years. He could speak and write in Cantonese, English, French, Mandarin, Russian, and Thai. He also spoke several of Viet Nam’s ethnic-minority languages. Interpreters must have extraordinary memories and know (or learn) the subject matter they interpret. Ho Chi Minh had learned foreign policy and had established international contacts while an interpreter in Moscow for the Comintern (Communist International) Executive Committee. He had learned Chinese and Russian military strategy while an interpreter for the Soviet advisor to Whampoa Military Academy in Canton. Ho Chi Minh was charismatic and carefully modest. Perhaps his least recognized attribute was the ability to attract patriots, discern their unnoticed skills, assign them to posts others would not have suggested, and then provide them with simple, clear guidance.

On August 19, 1945, before de Gaulle’s visit to Washington, the Viet Minh nationalist front, which Ho Chi Minh had established in May 1941, seized political power in Ha Noi. On the morning of August 21, Dang Van Viet and Cao Pha (two students active in the Viet Minh) raised the revolutionaries’ flag over the citadel in Hue, the imperial capital with the French-backed king. No one removed the revolutionary flag. With time-zone differences, Hue is a half day ahead of Washington. Thus, the Viet Minh flag flew over Hue early in the evening of August 20, Washington time, two days before the welcoming banquet for de Gaulle and his officers. The Viet Minh seized political power in the imperial capital, Hue, on August 23 at dawn Washington time of the morning after the formal de Gaulle – Truman welcoming photo but before the first formal French – American meetings began.

For the first time, a colonized nation with a competent provisional government had stood up and seized political power.

One can imagine the consternation, both hidden and expressed, among senior governmental leaders in the mother countries: If Ho Chi Minh and his government of competent, educated patriots successfully implemented independence, what would Gandhi and other nationalists do in the British Indian Empire (modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka)? What would nationalists do in other British colonies in Asia? What about nationalists in the British colonies in Africa (half of Africa)? What about nationalists in the French colonies in Africa (the other half of Africa)? What about nationalists opposing Dutch efforts to re-occupy the Dutch East Indies after Sukarno’s Declaration of Independence? What about Philippine nationalists, who had been active for decades but had not yet secured independence from the United States?

More than eight years later, on May 7, 1954, the Vietnamese victory over the French and the U.S. military at Dien Bien Phu sounded what General Vo Nguyen Giap called “the death knell for colonialism.” A month before, on April 7, 1954, during the battle, U.S. President Eisenhower had characterized communism with his falling-domino principle. However, the original touch point for the falling dominos was not communism. Instead, the original touch point was post-World-War-II nationalism.

In August 1945, American and French officials made key decisions for a French re-invasion.

The killing began on September 23, a month after the de Gaulle – Truman state visit and three weeks after President Hồ read Viet Nam’s Declaration of Independence. French troops traveling on British ships landed in Sai Gon. The United States had supplied the French with weapons and materiel. On October 7, French Commander Leclerc arrived in Sai Gon. He greeted a boisterous French crowd, announcing, “We have come to re-claim our inheritance!”        

The motivation of the mother countries (France, Great Britain, and the United States) was retention of the old world order and protection of each mother country’s pre-World-War-II empire. In short, the motivation was unmitigated self-interest writ large.

- By LADY BORTON

LadyBorton@gmail.com                                    Feel Free to Forward



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For arguably the best book on Viet Nam in English, see Huu Ngoc's 
VIET NAM: Tradition and Change, edited by Lady Borton and Elizabeth Collins:
www.ohioswallow.com/book/Viet+ Nam OR www.amazon.com/Viet-Nam- Tradition-Change-Southeast- ebook/dp/B01J7SYRIG/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490191978&sr=8- 1&keywords=%22huu+Ngoc%22+ Viet+Nam%3A+Tradition+and+ Change   






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Links to recommended Websites

  • tuoitrenews.com - The News Gateway of Viet Nam
  • 'After Sorrow' - Lady Borton
  • 'Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country!' - short video by William Blum
  • 'Demonic Superpower' - interview with Noam Chomsky (video)
  • 'Dirty Little Secrets' - Did the US use germ warfare in Korean War?
  • 'Gore Vidal interviewed by Patt Morrison' - critique of US today (YouTube)
  • 'Pentagon Papers' & US war in Viet Nam
  • 'SUPERPOWER' - a must watch movie! (video)
  • 'The Most Dangerous Man in America' (short video) – Daniel Ellsberg and ‘The Pentagon Papers’ of the American War in Indochina
  • 'They're selling postcards of the hanging' - Bob Avakian, clip from Revolution
  • 'US Department of Imperial Expansion' - by Tony Cartalluci
  • 'War and Empire Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life' - Paul L. Atwood
  • 'War is a Racket' by Major General Smedley Butler
  • "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" - Rev. Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967
  • "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" - John Perkins interview
  • "I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire": Johan Galtung
  • "Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?" - David Ray Griffin (radio, 2009)
  • "Overdose" - ABC doc. on the next, greatest financial crisis
  • "Psywar: The Real Battlefield is the Mind" - from Metanoia Films
  • "The Obama Deception": a hard-hitting video that completely destroys the myth of Barack Obama and explains his real agenda.
  • "The War on Democracy" - film by John Pilger
  • "The War You Don't See" - film by John Pilger (war & the media)
  • "Why Vietnam Truth Matters" - my response to Phillip Jennings
  • "Why We're at War?" - video talk byJohn Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
  • 10 False Flags that Changed the World
  • 2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World (Richard Rozoff)
  • 21st Century Socialism
  • 9/11 - ‘Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime’: PNAC – 9/11 (video)
  • 9/11 - "It Wasn't Muslims" (video & links)
  • 9/11 - "The 5 Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11"
  • 9/11 - 50 Questions, by Pepe Escobar
  • 9/11 - AE911Truth Experts Speak Out (excellent video)
  • 9/11 - Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
  • 9/11 - Blueprint for Truth (Richard Gage video)
  • 9/11 - Charlie Sheen's 'Twenty Questions to President Obama' Elicits Another Media Character Attack; Still No Coverage of Questions (Video, Sept 2009)
  • 9/11 - Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake, Dr. Alan Sabrosky
  • 9/11 - how 911 was done (blog)
  • 9/11 - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 (video)
  • 9/11 - The “BuildingWhat?” NYC Television Advertising Campaign
  • 9/11 - The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement. - A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010 - by Elizabeth Woodworth
  • 9/11 - Watch this: 1,000 Architects and Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation (Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth)
  • 9/11 - What Really Happened?
  • 9/11 - Why The Military Knows Israel Did 9/11 - YouTube interview with Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former Director of Studies at the U.S. Army War College
  • 9/11 - WTC-7 - Exposed! (short video)
  • 9/11 - Yet Another Congressman Questions 9/11
  • 9/11 & PNAC - history of wars based on fraud (video)
  • 9/11 After A Decade: Have We Learned Anything? (PCR)
  • 9/11 Book: 'Solving 9/11 - The Deception that Changed the World' by Christopher Bollyn
  • 9/11 Commission Campaign – for a new 9/11 investigation
  • 9/11 Issues - Journal of 9/11 Research (Dr.Judy Wood)
  • 9/11 Prejudice = Contempt Prior to Investigation: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
  • 9/11 Truth Movement
  • 9/11: An Actionable Plan for 9/11 Truth, by Senator Mike Gravel
  • 9/11: Nine eminent international physicists report
  • 9/11: You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don't Know the Official 9/11 Story
  • 911 notes (blog)
  • A Violent Peace – unexploded wartime ordnance in Viet Nam
  • A.N.S.W.E.R. – Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (US)
  • Activist Post
  • Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism
  • Afghanistan - Did 9/11 Justify the War? (Prof. David Ray Griffin)
  • Afghanistan After "Democracy" - Dr. Miraki
  • Afghanistan War - "Saving Women & Preventing Genocide" !!!
  • Afghanistan war is illegal and nothing to do with 9/11 (video - David Ray Griggin)
  • Agent Orange - audio interview with Len Aldis,
  • Agent Orange - Australian Parliament, Sen. Lee Rhiannon, 8/11/11
  • Agent Orange - Danang/Quang Nam Fund
  • Agent Orange - Hatfield's work in Viet Nam
  • Agent Orange - radio interview with Len Aldis, July 26, 2010
  • Agent Orange - Sign online petition for Justice for AO Victims
  • Agent Orange - Victims touch Briton's heart (Tuoitre News, interview with Len Aldis)
  • Agent Orange - Vietnam Relief & Responsibility Campaign
  • Agent Orange - Vietnamese Government agency website
  • Agent Orange - War Legacies Project
  • Agent Orange – International People’s Tribunal of Conscience, Paris 2009 (starts)
  • Agent Orange – The Lethal Legacy
  • Agent Orange – US lawyer demands justice
  • Agent Orange – VAVA continues fight for justice for AO victims
  • Agent Orange & Dioxin
  • Agent Orange Action Group (AOAG)
  • Agent Orange articles - Salem News
  • Agent Orange causes media blindness (Dave Lindorff)
  • Agent Orange Day – August 10
  • Agent Orange Fact Sheet (pdf version, plus 11 minute video)
  • Agent Orange hypocrisy – renew justice appeal
  • Agent Orange in Vietnam NEWS - scientific documentation & links
  • Agent Orange Justice (Australia-Vietnam Solidarity Network)
  • Agent Orange Murder (The LRC Blog)
  • Agent Orange Vietnam Children (video)
  • Agent Orange, Apocalypse Viêt Nam - by Andre Bouny
  • Agent Orange: Finding Justice for Vietnamese Victims - Len Aldis
  • Agent Orange: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes - Dave Lindorff
  • Agent Orange: International Activists form new AO Action Group
  • Agent Orange: Make Agent Orange History
  • Agent Orange: Makers of deadly AO keep claiming innocent
  • Agent Orange: Message to 2nd International Conference, by Bruce McPhie
  • Agent Orange: Relief & Responsibility Campaign
  • Agent Orange: US-Vietnam Dialogue Group "Action Plan", 2010
  • Agent Orange: Vietnamese joined by foreign voices, hands
  • Agent Orange/Dioxin - 3 generations contaminated (video - Part 1)
  • Agent Orange/Dioxin - 3 generations contaminated (video - Part 2)
  • Agent Orange/Dioxin - 3 generations contaminated (video - Part 3)
  • All Africa.com
  • Alternet
  • ANERA - Improving Lives in the Middle East
  • Anti-Empire Report - August 4, 2010 - William Blum
  • Anti-Empire Report - July 28, 2011 - William Blum
  • Anti-Empire Reports - essays by William Blum
  • Anti-fascist Calling
  • Anti-Fascist Encyclopedia (Alex Constantine)
  • Anti-War Speech by War Veteran – Mike Prysner, IVAW (YouTube)
  • Antiwar.com (US)
  • Antony Loewenstein (Sydney, journalist)
  • Arab Media Watch
  • Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?
  • Arrest Blair for Crimes Against Peace
  • Australia: John Winston Howard and the Iraq War
  • Australian Veterans For Peace
  • Axis of Logic – Finding Clarity in the 21st Century
  • B'Tselem - Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
  • Bankster USA blog
  • Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor
  • BBC - Auntie Beeb or the Big Brother Corporation?
  • Behind the Invasion of Iraq (a special report from R.U.P.E. - India)
  • Bilderberg Group
  • Bill Noxid (Attention 101)
  • Black Agenda Report
  • Bradley Manning - Free Bradley Manning, Support Network
  • Brasscheck TV - videos
  • Brasscheck TV (films)
  • Breathing Earth - amazing world map! (CO2 emissions, birth & death rates)
  • Brian S. Wilson - peace activist Brian S. Willson, a former United States Air Force officer who served in Viet Nam
  • Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society
  • BSN – News you won’t find on BBC or ITN
  • Bulatlat - Philippine's Weekly Online News Magazine
  • Call To Conscience
  • Cambodia - landmines (Aki Ra: deminer extraordinaire!))
  • Cambodia - Remembering the Holocaust of US Bombing
  • Cambodia - US Bombing 1965-1975 - longer & worse than generally understood. See 2nd article here.
  • Cambodia - Wrestling with the KR Legacy, Tom Fawthrop
  • Cambodia - Year Zero, documentary movie by John Pilger
  • CAMBODIA REVISITED: Elusive Justice & Elusive Truth
  • Cambodia War Crimes Trials – Comments from US Professor Kenneth J. Herrmann:
  • Cambodia: Aki Ra, CNN Hero 2010, land mines
  • Cambodia’s Missing Criminals – by John Pilger:
  • Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
  • Campaign for International Co-operation & Disarmament
  • Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (UK)
  • Canada.com
  • CenterLine - daily round-up report on “war on terror”
  • China's Documentation Of US Human Rights Abuses - by Stephen Lendman
  • Chomsky Info
  • Chuck Searcy - Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
  • CIA's Vietnam Histories (National Security Archive)
  • Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox
  • COAT - Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
  • ColdType.net
  • Combatants For Peace
  • Common Dreams
  • Common Wonders - Robert C. Koehler, US journalist
  • Communist Party of Viet Nam – online English newspaper
  • Conscientious Dissent
  • CounterPunch
  • Creative-i
  • Crooks And Liars (John Amato’s blog)
  • Cuba's Socialist Renewal
  • Cuban 5 - political prisoners in US
  • Cuban 5 - political prisoners in US
  • Cynthia McKinney's blog
  • Dahlia S. Wasfi, MD - personal website
  • Dahr Jamail's Iraq dispatches
  • Daily Brief (The AfPak Channel) - Katherine Tiedemann
  • Danger Room - Noah Shachtman (for all things strange & military!)
  • Dangerous Creation - anti-war blog, with comments
  • Daniel Ellsberg’s Website – the man who leaked ‘The Pentagon Papers’
  • Dave Lindorff, US jourmalist
  • Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War - Joe Bageant
  • Democracy & Socialism
  • Democracy Now! - daily TV/radio news program, with Amy Goodman
  • Depleted Uranium
  • Digital Journal
  • Direct Action - for Socialism in the 21st Century
  • Dissident Voice
  • Douglas Valentine (articles)
  • Douglas Valentine (incl. The Phoenix Program)
  • Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd Online
  • Ephemeris 360°.org
  • Exposing & Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq
  • FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (US)
  • FAS - Arms sale monitoring project
  • FDL - firedoglake - progresive political blog
  • Fight for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
  • FlybyNews.com
  • Forbidden Knowledge TV
  • Foreign Policy in Focus (US)
  • Foreign Policy Journal
  • Friends of China - Sukant Chandan
  • Gaza Aid Flotilla - (BBC HARDtalk with Kenneth O'Keefe)
  • Gaza under blockade (BBC)
  • Gene Ethics GM-free Newsletter
  • General Bruce: Peaceredcross
  • General Giap - 100th birthday
  • George Galloway's official website
  • George Mizo, US Vietnam War Veteran (1945-2002)
  • George Monbiot
  • GetUp (Australia)
  • Gilad Atzmon (musician & writer, UK)
  • Global Echo
  • Global Issues
  • Global Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
  • Global Village Foundation (Le Ly Hayslip)
  • Globalvision News Network
  • Golem XIV - David Malone, author of 'The Debt Generation'
  • Google News
  • Green Left Weekly
  • Greg Philo - 'More Bad News from Israel' (YouTube)
  • Guardian Weekly
  • Gulf of Tonkin - 'Crossing the Rubicon' (by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver)
  • Gush Shalom - Israeli peace bloc
  • Hands Off Venezuela!
  • Hanoi Times - website of Economic & Urban Newspaper
  • Henry Kissinger – war criminal (1)
  • Henry Kissinger – war criminal (2)
  • Henry Kissinger – war criminal (3)
  • Henry Kissinger: The Making Of A War Criminal (video - 1'20")
  • Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? - Dr Gideon Polya, Australia
  • Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? - Dr. Polya (Counter Currents)
  • Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? - Tony Logan (Not My Tribe)
  • Hiroshima - Lies of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today - John Pilger
  • Hiroshima Atom Bomb Impact: BBC documentary
  • Hiroshima: Cover-Up—And the Greatest Movie Never Made
  • Hiroshima: re-enactment of the dropping of the US nuclear bomb on Japanese city (BBC video)
  • Hiroshima: Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
  • Historians Against the War (US)
  • History News Network
  • Hollywood and the War Machine
  • Housmans World Peace Database
  • How to Start a War - The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989)
  • Howard Zinn - A People's History Of The United States - (The 20th Century) - The complete audio book.
  • Howard Zinn - collection of important articles
  • Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
  • Howard Zinn News
  • Hue Royal Music & Arts
  • ICAN - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons
  • Imagine a World of Peace....(James Starowicz blog)
  • In the Mind Field: News & Commentary from Veteran Writer-Activists
  • Independent Media Center
  • Indymedia UK
  • Information Clearing House (daily news digest)
  • Informed Comment - Juan Cole blog
  • InfoWars.com - Alex Jones - there is a war on for your mind
  • Inside Britain's Israel Lobby (video)
  • International Action Center
  • International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)
  • Intrepid Express - "Xin chao, bia hoi, hello!"
  • Intrepid Express Blog
  • Intrepid Express Blog - "199 trips and counting..."
  • Intrepid Express Blog - "Cambodia Revisited"
  • Intrepid Travel
  • Intrepid Travel - "Urban Adventures"
  • Intrepid Travel - Awards 2009
  • IRAN - Can You Pass The Iran Quiz?
  • Iran - Chomsky: What's At Stake in the Issue of Iran?
  • Iran - Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map? - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
  • Iran – Everything you know is a myth
  • Iran – Manufacturing Consent for War
  • Iran and The International Bureau of Double Standards (video)
  • Iran Opens Oil Bourse - trouble for US$
  • Iraq Veterans Against the War
  • Iraq: The Hidden War (video)
  • Irregular Gippsland Peace Newsletter
  • Islam Online (in English)
  • Islip Political Newsletter (monthly)
  • Israel / Palestine - Commit Yourself to the Truth (Richard Forer)
  • Israel / Palestine: what every American needs to know
  • Israel & International Law (video)
  • Israel Attacks America - USS Liberty
  • Israel's secret weapons program (BBC film)
  • Israeli attack on USS Liberty (BBC video)
  • Jewish Voice for Peace
  • Jews United Against Zionism
  • Johan Galtung: Professor of Peace Studies (video interview)
  • John McCarthy
  • John Perkins (author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man')
  • John Pilger
  • John Pilger - The War You Don't See (95 min. documentary movie)
  • John Pilger and Greg Philo in conversation (YouTube)
  • John Winston Howard & The Iraq War - prosecute for war crimes
  • Jonathan Cook
  • Just Foreign Policy
  • Justice Not Vengeance
  • Killing Civilians in Afghanistan & Iraq - Tom Engelhardt
  • Killing Hope - US Military & CIA Interventions since World War 2, by William Blum (pdf)
  • Killings on the High Seas (Israel attacks Gaza aid ships)
  • Korea - The Unknown Truth About U.S.-Sanctioned Death Squads and War Crimes, 1945-1953
  • Korea:1943-1953 (United States War Crimes)
  • Korean War - Why Did Truman Really Fire MacArthur? Obscure History of Nuclear Weapons & Korean War Provides the Answer
  • Land Destroyer Report
  • Leading to War – the path to war in Iraq
  • Lebanese Communication Group: Al-Manar
  • Lessons of the Vietnam War (Edward S. Herman)
  • LewRockwell.com
  • Libya - The Lies Behind the West's War on Libya, Jean-Paul Pougala
  • Libya and the end of Western illusions
  • Libya News (from Mathaba)
  • Libya War: Here's the Key Question - Diana Johnstone
  • Libya, the Lie
  • Libya: 'No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli - NATO wages war on false claims'
  • Libya: Another War, Another Pack of Lies - by Tony Cartalucci
  • Libya: BBC's Fake Images from Tripoli - Manipulating Video Images: Sloppy Journalism or War Propaganda?
  • Libya: Corporate media reports are false
  • Libya: De-demonising Gaddafi – what you don’t know: Video
  • Libya: Global Civilians for Peace in Libya
  • Libya: Lizzy Phelan - 'My Experience in Libya during NATO Attacks'
  • Libya: NATO invasion is about Gaddafi’s Plan to Introduce Gold Dinar
  • Libya: Obama lied about Gaddafi's bloodbath (YouTube)
  • Libya: Qaddafi’s “Green Book”
  • Libya: Real Reason For The War
  • Libya: The Green Book
  • Libya: The Left has lost its way over Libya
  • Libya: The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya
  • Libya: Top 10 Myths in the War Against Libya (CounterPunch)
  • Libya: What’s Next for Libya? by Mike Raddie 26 Aug 2011
  • Libya: Widespread NATO Use of Depleted Uranium Munitions in Libya
  • Links: International Journal of Socialist renewal
  • Live from Occupied Palestine - Australian activist living in West Bank
  • Lizzie's Liberation (Lizzie Cocker)
  • March 20 - March on Washington - end the wars
  • Marxists Internet Archive
  • Mathaba News Network - the other face of the news
  • Max Keiser.com
  • Media Alliance
  • Media Channel
  • Media Studies
  • medialens – correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
  • Medical and Scientific Aid for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
  • Michael Heart - the song writer's personal website
  • Michael Heart: WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza)
  • Middle East - The One State Solution to Israel/Palestine
  • Middle East - Top 10 Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Mihalis Balkan Analysis
  • Military Resistance - GI Special - The Military Project
  • Mindfully.org
  • Mines Advisory Group (clearing landmines in VN)
  • Morning Star - socialist daily
  • Morning Star online (UK)
  • Mother Jones
  • My Catbird Seat
  • National Geographic Channel Videos
  • New America Media
  • New Internationalist
  • New Journalism Project
  • New Statesman
  • News - outlookindia.com
  • News Alternative
  • Nick Turse
  • Nieman Watchdog - questions the press should ask
  • Nordic News Network - Al Burke, Sweden
  • Not My Tribe
  • Not Your Soldier
  • NoWar - South Australia
  • Nuremberg Principles & US Presidents (OpEdNews)
  • Occupation 101: Award-winning documentary on Israel-Palestine
  • Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority – (video)
  • OCCUPY TOGETHER: protests across the USA
  • October2010.org - US in Revolt. It Can Be Done. Now is the Time.
  • October2011.org
  • Online Journal
  • OpEdNews.com
  • Open Democracy
  • Operation Mockingbird (Spartacus Educational)
  • Operation Mockingbird (Wikipedia) - media/propaganda
  • Opinion Maker
  • Orwellwasright's Weblog
  • Osama Bin Lyin?
  • Outline of Vietnamese History
  • Pakalert - alternative news
  • Peace Buttons: This Week in History
  • Peace News
  • Peace of the Action (Cindy Sheehan)
  • Peace, Justice & Environment Project
  • PEAK Adventure Travel Group
  • Pearl Harbour: Day of Deceit - The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, by Robert B. Stinnett
  • Pearl Harbour: The Pearl Harbor Deception by Robert Stinnett
  • Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War
  • Personal - Tribute to My Dad
  • Personal - Tribute to My Mum
  • PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: Justice for Victims of Agent Orange
  • PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION: USA apology to Vietnam
  • Political Theatrics - Just One Spark Starts A Fire
  • Populist Party of America
  • Postcards from the Revolution - Eva Golinger (Venezuela)
  • Pox Americana - Remember Vietnam
  • PR Watch - Investigative reporting on the Public Relations industry
  • Pravda (English)
  • Press TV - Iranian international news network in English
  • Prison Planet (Alex Jones)
  • Private Planet
  • Project Censored
  • Project RENEW - landmines/uxo, Viet Nam
  • Public Policy Examiner
  • Rabbibrian’s Blog – A Voice for Justice and Peace in Israel/Palestine
  • Radical News Digest - In These New Times
  • RebelReports - Jeremy Scahill
  • Rehmat's World
  • Relief Web
  • Remember Vietnam
  • Resist
  • Rethink Afghanistan
  • Revolution Newspaper (weekly)
  • Rock Creek Free Press (US)
  • Rupert Murdoch – Who is Rupert Murdoch?
  • Salem-News
  • SANA - South Asian News Agency
  • Scientists for Global Responsibility
  • Scoop - New Zealand News
  • Sean M. Madden - iNoodle
  • Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg)
  • SilenceScreams.com - Unheard voices amid the squabbles
  • Sir! No Sir! - David Zeiger's important movie
  • Sir! No Sir! - GI movement to end the war in Viet Nam (trailer)
  • Sir! No Sir! - The Suppressed Story of The GI Movement to end the war in Viet Nam (video)
  • Smedley Butler (1881-1940) Major-General, US Marine Corps - "War is a Racket"
  • Smedley Butler Society - "War is a Racket"
  • Socialist Alliance Australia
  • Sociocratic Circle-organization Method website
  • Spinwatch - reporting on corporate and government public relations and propaganda
  • SQUALL - radical quality journalism and photography on issues the mainstream media dare not touch
  • Stand Fast - Australian anti-war Veterans group
  • Stockholm Environmental Conference - Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos
  • Stop NATO - opposition to global militarism
  • Stop the War Coalition (UK)
  • Stop the War Coalition Sydney
  • Stop the War Collective (Brisbane)
  • Swedish Cult of America: Part 1 Warring for Peace in the Service of USA/NATO
  • Syria – How the west hijacks demonstrations and orchestrates a pro-EMPIRE counter revolution.
  • Syria: ‘Aleppo Media Centre’ Funded By French Foreign Office, EU and US
  • Syria: Desperate Lies for a Collapsing Gambit (Land Destroyer Report)
  • Syria: Inside The Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying For Regime Change
  • Syria: Truth and Falsehood in Syria - Jeremy Salt
  • SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO "Humanitarian Intervention" by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
  • Syrian-Sarin ‘False Flag’ Lesson. By Ray McGovern. Syrian rebels – not Syrian Army troops – responsible for the infamous sarin nerve-gas attack killing hundreds of people on Aug. 21, 2013 in Ghouta, Syria. President Obama, John Kerry, and mainstream media maliciously lied.
  • Take Back The Media
  • Taki’s Magazine
  • TARPLEY.net (Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.)
  • Ted Rall's blog - America's Hardest-Hitting Cartoonist and Columnist.
  • Terrorism of the CIA (video)
  • Thanh Nien Newspaper - (VN youth)
  • The "Kick Them All Out" Project
  • The Activist
  • The American Muslim
  • The Anti-American Manifesto (2010) by Ted Rall
  • The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ)
  • The Black Commentator - African Americans and the African world
  • The Black Commentator (US)
  • The BRussells Tribunal
  • The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (Canada)
  • The Consortium for Independent Journalism
  • The Daily Beast
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  • The Free Gaza Movement
  • The Huffington Post
  • The Khmer riche: making a killing in Cambodia (Sunday Times)
  • The Liberty Voice
  • The Middle East Research and Information Project
  • The Nation Institute
  • The National Security Archive (The George Washington University)
  • The NEW American Dream
  • The New Standard
  • The Palestine Papers (Guardian)
  • The Pentagon Papers: An Introduction
  • The Progressive Review
  • The Public Record - intrepid new journalism
  • The Rag Blog - news & views from the progressive front
  • The Real Television News
  • The Regressive Antidote – David Michael Green on Politics
  • The Secret Government (Video, 1987)
  • The White House - "One of the best satirical web sites on the planet."
  • The Word – Hanoi
  • The Word – Ho Chi Minh City
  • The World March for Peace & Nonviolence
  • Third World Traveler - archive of articles & book excerpts
  • Third World Traveler - CIA Watch
  • This Can't Be Happening
  • Thomas Paine's Corner
  • Tikkun Magazine - to heal, repair and transform the world
  • Today's Alternative News -
  • TomDispatch
  • Top 50 US War Criminals
  • Transcend International: A Network for Peace & Development
  • Traveling Soldier
  • Trotsky Internet Archive
  • Truthdig – drilling beneath the headlines
  • tuoitrenews.com - The News Gateway of Viet Nam
  • TvNewsLIES.org
  • U.S. Cost of Wars (and counting!) – National Priorities Project
  • U.S. Interventions in the Middle East - a partial chronology
  • U.S. National Debt Clock!
  • UK: Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases
  • UN Observer
  • Undernews – The Strange Rise of Obama
  • United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2010:
  • Uruknet - information from occupied iraq
  • US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
  • US foreign policy: Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy - Michael Parenti
  • US Human Rights Situation in 2010 (China's report)
  • US Military & CIA Interventions since WW2, by William Blum
  • US war crimes in Iraq - documented by US soldier
  • UXO: A Violent Peace – unexploded wartime ordnance in VN
  • UXO: A Violent Peace – unexploded wartime ordnance in VN
  • Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
  • Vets With A Mission (US)
  • Vetspeak
  • Viet Nam - International Travel Expo, HCMC, 2010
  • Viet Nam - maps & locations
  • Viet Nam - People's Daily (Nhan Dan)
  • Viet Nam - The Friendship Village (YouTube)
  • Viet Nam - The Friendship Village & Agent Orange children
  • Viet Nam Cultural Profiles
  • Viet Nam Net - news & photos
  • Viet Nam News - English daily newspaper
  • Viet Nam Peoples' Armed Forces newspaper
  • Viet Nam Pictorial
  • Viet Nam species bio-diversity
  • Viet Nam topical articles
  • Viet Nam Youth Federation - daily newspaper
  • Viet Nam: Saigon Giai Phong (English)
  • Viet Nam's "Perfect Spy" - Pham Xuan An
  • Vietnam - Preventive Remembrance
  • Vietnam - The War Crimes Files
  • Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange - Open Letter
  • Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange / dioxin (VAVA)
  • Vietnam Communist Party - 11th National Congress, 2011
  • Vietnam Cultural Window
  • Vietnam Economic Times
  • Vietnam Friendship Village Project (USA)
  • Vietnam from the Left – Michael Karadjis
  • Vietnam Holocaust - history of invasion & occupation
  • Vietnam in the New American Century (H. Bruce Franklin, 2005)
  • Vietnam National Administration of Tourism
  • Vietnam National Times (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
  • Vietnam Peace & Development Foundation
  • Vietnam Report (Len Aldis) – 1st quarter, 2010
  • Vietnam Report (Len Aldis) – 2nd quarter, 2010
  • Vietnam Special Operations: Secrets of war (52 min.)
  • Vietnam Veterans Against the War
  • Vietnam War - The Pentagon Papers
  • Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of (Nick Turse )
  • Vietnam War Index (Spartacus Educational)
  • Vietnam War Resources - an amazing compilation!
  • Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union
  • Vietnam: A Country Study - (1987, Ronald J. Cima, ed. )
  • Vietnam: Disputed Paracel & Spratly Islands Belong to Viet Nam
  • Vietnam: Tourism in Vietnam website
  • Vietnam's Independence Day - from Direct Action, 2010
  • Vietnamese Association of Historical Sciences
  • Vietnews – eyes on Viet Nam (tuoi tre)
  • VNLP – Viet Nam Literature Project
  • Voice of Viet Nam - online news (English)
  • Voices in the Wilderness (UK)
  • Voltaire Network – quality analysis of today’s world
  • War Coverage and the Obama Cult
  • War Crimes Times
  • War In Context - Alternative perspectives on the 'War on Terrorism'
  • War in Context - Paul Woodward
  • War Is A Crime website
  • War is a racket - collection of short videos from Brasscheck TV
  • War Legacies Project
  • Watching America - news sources from around the world
  • Western Wars on Islamic World
  • What Does It Mean? – daily alternative news service
  • What John Kerry Really Did in Vietnam
  • What Really Happened? - Fake Terror & the Road to War
  • What Really Happened? - Lies that led to War in Iraq
  • What Really Happened? - Lies that led to Wars
  • What Really Happened? - Pearl Harbour
  • What Really Happened? - the history the government hopes you don't learn
  • Whistle-blowing in Afghanistan, Korea, Vietnam & Iraq
  • WhoWhatWhy - Forensic Journalism (Russ Barker)
  • Wide Asleep In America (‘Lord Baltimore’ blog)
  • Wikileaks – whisleblower website
  • WikiLeaks & Julian Assange - "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian
  • Wilfred Burchett - The Forgotten History War, by Jamie Miller
  • Workers' Revolutionary Party
  • World Bulletin
  • World Prout Assembly
  • World Socialist Movement
  • World Socialist Party (US)
  • World Socialist Web Site
  • Yesh Gvul (Israeli Refuseniks)
  • Yinon Plan
  • YouTube – Project Renew
  • YouTube – UXO, Viet Nam
  • Yugoslavia: Religious war in Balkans orchestrated by USA and NATO
  • ZMAG - an independent political magazine of critical thinking