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Congress Approves $30 Million for UXO Sector in Laos for FY2018

This press release originally appeared at legaciesofwar.org. Congress has allocated $30 million to the unexploded ordnance (UXO) sector in Laos for fiscal year 2018, fulfilling a multi-year pledge made in 2016 totaling $90

April 1, 2018 • Featured, Laos, Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance • Views: 991

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THE SECRET WAR THAT TRANSFORMED THE CIA

This review originally appeared at WarOnTheRocks.com. By Arnold R. Isaacs Joshua Kurlantzick, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Simon & Schuster, 2017) If you work at it, you can

February 5, 2017 • Books, Connections to Today, Featured, Laos, Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance • Views: 2994

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The Not-So-Secret War: Revisiting American Intervention in Laos

This review originally appeared at TheNewYorkTimes.com. By Scott Shane. A GREAT PLACE TO HAVE A WAR America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA By Joshua Kurlantzick 323 pp. Simon & Schuster. $28. Speaking last

February 5, 2017 • Books, Featured, Laos • Views: 2022

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America’s secret war in Laos

This review originally appeared at TheEconomist.com. How an unremitting, decade-long bombing campaign affected a small southeast Asian nation A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. By

January 26, 2017 • Books, Featured, Laos • Views: 2755

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Robert Scheer: U.S. Pledge of $90 Million to Laos Glosses U.S. History of Terrorizing Civilians

This article originally appeared at TruthDig.com As President Obama toured an exhibition of prosthetics made for Laotians who lost limbs when bombs exploded years or even decades after the United States dropped them on Laos

September 14, 2016 • Connections to Today, Featured, Laos • Views: 2252

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What 80 million unexploded US bombs did to Laos

Photo: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images This article appeared at kxly.com Author: By Rebecca Wright CNN XIENG KHOUNG, Laos (CNN) – For two years after the accident, Yei Yang refused to leave his home. “I

September 14, 2016 • Featured, Laos, Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance • Views: 2143

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US Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen

This article originally appeared at ReaderSupportedNews.org BY William Boardman Does anyone think America is accountable for its own actions? he preposterous ironies of President Obama’s unapologetic visit to Laos on

September 13, 2016 • Connections to Today, Featured, Laos • Views: 2204

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“Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear” as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs

This article originally appeared at DemocracyNow.org As President Obama becomes the first American president to visit Laos, we look at the legacy of the U.S. bombing campaign there during the war on Vietnam. The U.S.

September 11, 2016 • Connections to Today, Featured, Laos, Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance, Video • Views: 2140

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Decades on, millions of unexploded American bombs left behind still kill and maim in Laos

This article originally appeared at pbs.org The United States dropped 270 million bombs on Laos between 1964 and 1973. On Tuesday, President Obama became the first U.S. president to visit the country, promising to

September 10, 2016 • Connections to Today, Featured, Laos, Legacies: Unexploded Ordnance • Views: 1994

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The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — which is being commemorated during this decade with a series of 50th anniversary events. Full Disclosure represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize that war, and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

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This Month in History: 1970

The academic year 1969-70 saw a wave of bombings and arson: nearly 250 bombings (causing 6 deaths) and 247 cases of arson, including a $320,00 fire at a UC Berkeley library.

Secret peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ begin in Paris. US and ARVN (South Vietnamese) troops invade Cambodia sparking widespread protests in the US. 1970 is a year of complicated diplomatic maneuvering among all parties to the conflict.

January – Committee of Liaison, chaired by antiwar activists Dave Dellinger and Cora Weiss, is established as an intermediary between American POWs held in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and their families. Its goal was ”to facilitate communicate communication between American servicemen held in North Vietnam and their families” and to “try to find out if your relative is a prisoner in North Vietnam.” By midsummer, a confirmed list of 335 POWs would be established along with a flow of correspondence. A Citizens Committee of inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam (CCI) is established to conduct a series of hearings in 14 cities.

January-May 26 – Operation Menu – the code name for a secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia by the U.S. Strategic Air Command continues (See entries for March 18 and May 31 in 1969 chronology).

January 5 – Eighty GIs join GIs for Peace to picket General Westmoreland at Fort Bliss, Texas.

January 15-20 Gallup poll 57% of Americans see Vietnam war as a mistake, but another January poll shows 65% approving of Nixon’s handling of the war.

January 21 – The Shelter Half, ASU (American Serviceman’s Union), SDS, and other antiwar activists hold a “Trial of the Army” at the University of Washington’s HUB ballroom to put the Army, not the Shelter Half, on trial for genocide.

January 22 – In his State of the Union speech, Nixon announces that the end of the war in Vietnam is a major goal of U.S. policy. Though peace talks have reached an impasse, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that Vietnamization is working and that there will be further troop withdrawals.

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Congress Approves $30 Million for UXO Sector in Laos for FY2018

THE SECRET WAR THAT TRANSFORMED THE CIA

The Not-So-Secret War: Revisiting American Intervention in Laos

America’s secret war in Laos

Robert Scheer: U.S. Pledge of $90 Million to Laos Glosses U.S. History of Terrorizing Civilians

What 80 million unexploded US bombs did to Laos

US Cluster Bombs Kill Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen

“Millions of People in Laos Still Live in Fear” as Obama Pledges $90 Million to Clean Up U.S. Bombs

Decades on, millions of unexploded American bombs left behind still kill and maim in Laos

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