Laos

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 million over three years. This funding will...

THE SECRET WAR THAT TRANSFORMED THE CIA

February 5, 2017

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,...

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

February 5, 2017

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 &...

America’s secret war in Laos

January 26, 2017

This review originally appeared at TheEconomist.com. How an unremitting, decade-long bombing campaign affected a small...

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

September 14, 2016

This article originally appeared at TruthDig.com As President Obama toured an exhibition of prosthetics made for...

What 80 million unexploded US bombs did to Laos

September 14, 2016

Photo: Chumsak Kanoknan/Getty Images This article appeared at kxly.com Author: By Rebecca Wright CNN XIENG...

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

September 13, 2016

This article originally appeared at ReaderSupportedNews.org BY William Boardman Does anyone think America is...

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

September 11, 2016

This article originally appeared at DemocracyNow.org As President Obama becomes the first American president to...

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

September 10, 2016

This article originally appeared at pbs.org The United States dropped 270 million bombs on Laos between 1964...