Ted Osius, former US ambassador to Vietnam, has a new book forthcoming. His affiliation with the likes of Albright is a blood-red stain.
Connections to Today
Parallels: US bombings of Vietnam and Israel’s aerial assault on Gaza
Israel’s assault on Gaza is a painful reminder of how the United States bombed my country to the Stone Age.
Bring the War Home explores connections between the white power movement and the Vietnam War
In trying to grasp an understanding of the American violence in the past few days and the association with the White...
Next Contestant, Iran: Meet America’s Permanent War Formula
"When it comes to starting wars, we don’t even bother to change the script anymore." By Matt Taibbi, published by...
Agent Orange barrels found in Oregon Lake
What the heck?! Agent Orange barrels found at the bottom of Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon? The story is ongoing......
Exceptional Victims
The resistance to the Vietnam War was the most diverse and dynamic antiwar movement in U.S. history. We have all but...
Tomgram: James Carroll, The 12 Days of Bombing That Never End (for Me)
This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. Posted by James Carroll Call it strange, but call it...
The Liberal Embrace of War
Photo: An anti-government protester dressed as Lady Liberty, wearing the colors of Venezuela's flag, hugs a fellow...
Tomgram: Hartung and Smithberger, A Dollar-by-Dollar Tour of the National Security State
What should we call the all-American culture in which we’re now immersed? Not a “defeat culture” (not yet, anyway), but perhaps a “denial culture.”
Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State Or How I Learned Not to Love Big Brother
This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Alfred McCoy’s new Dispatch Book, In...
Leahy Heads Bipartisan Senate Delegation In Visits To The Korea DMZ, And Vietnam
A bipartisan official U.S. Senate delegation of nine Senators will visit South Korea and Vietnam for meetings with government and military leaders April 14 thru April 23.
Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, America’s Self-Inflicted Wound
In a shadow world of black ops, mercenaries, and drug lords he hadn’t even known existed, he first stumbled upon some of the secrets of the U.S. national security state.
Vietnam, Through the Eyes of Artists
“Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975,” now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “The nation was in danger of losing its soul, and American artists — some, anyway — were trying to save theirs by denouncing what they viewed as a racist war.”
Rebecca Gordon, Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg
In its menacing rejection of the court, the Trump administration is turning its back on the system of international law and justice the United States helped establish at Nuremberg. The rule of law must not hold only, as hotelier Leona Helmsley once said about taxes, for “the little people.”