“We came in sweeping through the valley killing absolutely everyone, no matter what age,” recalls Dennis Stout, who went on to report war crimes he witnessed in Vietnam.
Risk of Nuclear War Rises
As reported on Democracy Now! February 7, 2020: U.S. Deploys a New Nuclear Weapon for the First Time Since the Cold War The Federation of American Scientists revealed in late January that the U.S. Navy had deployed for the first time a submarine armed with a low-yield...
The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Style
This article was originally posted with accompanying Tomgram introduction on February 4, 2020, at TomDispatch.com. Wars Without Victories, Weapons Without End By William J. Astore The expression “self-licking ice cream cone” was first used in 1992 to describe a...
America wants YOU to write a letter to The Wall
The 2020 Call for Memorial Day Letters to The Wall America wants YOU to write a letter today to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) for delivery on Memorial Day. Over the past five years we have solicited letters from folks just like you to deliver to The Wall on...
Boondoggle, Inc.: Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
A careful look at the real totals of U.S. defense expenditures from a May 2019 article from Tom Dispatch. Let’s keep this in mind when some politicians say we can’t afford to fund public education and Medicare for All, for example. This article by William...
Citizen Soldier’s Agent Orange Archives
Shared by Vietnam veteran Michael Uhl, with this introduction: In early 1978, Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit dedicated to advocacy on behalf of GIs and veterans, became involved in the controversial Agent Orange issue when a range of negative health effects began being...
Deporting Ho Chi Minh
A history lesson about a critical period in Ho Chi Minh’s earlier life, by Tom Vaizey published January 16, 2020 by History Today. Feature photo caption: Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) in 1921. When, in 1931, the Vietnamese revolutionary Nguyen Ai Quoc was...
Many Soldiers Want to Stop Fighting. Let’s Build a Movement That Welcomes Them.
This piece by Rory Fanning, a veteran twice deployed to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion over a decade ago, was first published January 7, 2020 by Truthout. What will happen next? It’s a question that has been running through my head since the U.S....
Podcast: “What am I doing here? This is crazy!” – S Brian Willson
“I’d probably seen somewheres between 700 to 900 dead Vietnamese, most of whom were children or very young people. I was both shocked and sickened.”
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