Once Again, the VA Turns Down Navy Vets for Agent Orange Benefits
This article originally appeared at nationofchange.org by By Charles Ornstein and Terry Parris Jr Photo Credit: Vietnam veteran Jim Smith has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and believes Agent Orange exposure may...
Obama to push to clear leftover Vietnam-era bombs
This article originally published on CNN.com By Elise Labott, CNN Updated 1811 GMT (0211 HKT) January 25, 2016 Vientiane, Laos (CNN)Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Laos on Sunday ahead of a major push by the...
As Okinawa confronts dioxin, Vietnam offers lessons
Health monitoring and safety measures urged as U.S. denials fly in face of mounting toxic evidence on island BY JON MITCHELL Last month, Urasoe in Okinawa pledged to conduct a survey of former base employees to ascertain...
Poster of the Week
Poster of the Week www.politicalgraphics.org Portside Date: January 10, 2016 Author: Center for the Study of Political Graphics Date of Source: Friday, January 8, 2016 Center for the Study of Political Graphics Stop the...
Dioxin in Vietnam
The powerpoint presentation below was put together by Dr. Jean Grassman and Dr. Daniel Robie on Agent Orange. They're both members of the Science/Public Health Committee of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and...
LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR
At the end of the year most of us see an increase in requests for contributions to various charities. This year the appeal that had a great deal of impact on my family came from the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and...
Press Release FIRST TV BROADCAST of German-made documentary, Lighter Than Orange
The documentary LIGHTER THAN ORANGE reveals a political failure through individual biographies. It depicts the fates of millions Vietnamese veterans who have been victims of Agent Orange. Due to exposure to dioxin-based...
Len Aldis, peace campaigner, passes away at home
This article originally appeared at East London News. Len Aldis, well known local campaigner for peace and pensioners, was found at home on Friday, 27th November, having passed away. Len’s friends had individually been...
War Crimes: Agent Orange, Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Other Ugly Legacies of the Vietnam War
Fifty years ago this next month (December 1965), with the urging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rubber stamp approval of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the United States Air...
Young woman, big responsibility: She manages 160 deminers and support staff who clean up cluster bombs and other explosives in Quang Tri Province
This interview originally appeared at Project Renew. Eight months ago Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh was promoted to Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Operations Manager at Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province. The...
From Japan to Vietnam, Radiation and Agent Orange Survivors Deserve Justice From the US by Marjorie Cohn
This article originally appeared at TruthOut.org. We have just marked anniversaries of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the US government against the people of Japan and Vietnam. Seventy years ago,...
US Government Finally Admits Agent Orange Poisoned Troops
This article originally appeared at AntiMedia.org. Carey Wedler June 22, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) Decades after the Vietnam War, the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged last week that Monsanto’s Agent Orange—a dangerous...
Turning The Tables
This content originally appeared at Loose Cannons Inc. Over the decades there have been several law suits in U.S. courts, including one more recent on behalf of Vietnamese plaintiffs, against Dow Chemical, Monsanto, et....
Senate Session July 13 2015
Sherrod BrownU.S. Senator[D] Ohio Sheldon WhitehouseU.S. Senator[D] Rhode Island
Mine Action Alert: Wartime ordnance explosion kills farmer, father of three, near the former DMZ
This article originally appeared at LandMines.org/vn An explosion of wartime ordnance on Tuesday afternoon killed a 42-year-old farmer and father of three young children in Trung Son Commune of Gio Linh District, Quang...
US To Pay Millions for Agent Orange Claims
This article appeared at Portside Date: June 20, 2015 More than 2,000 Air Force veterans and reservists are set to receive over $47.5 million for exposure to the harmful chemical. Ending years of wait, the government...
250-pound US-made aerial bomb removed from Vietnam construction site
This article originally appeared at StarsandStripes.com. An explosive ordnance disposal team from Project Renew removed a U.S.-made unexploded 250-pound bomb from a construction site Friday near Ho Chi Minh Highway in...
Law and Disorder May 25, 2015: Susan Schnall, Jim Lafferty and Doug Rawlings
This post originally published at lawandorder.org. Law and Disorder May 25, 2015 Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download 50 Year Anniversary of the Vietnam War: Professor Susan Schnall From 1967 to 1969, during the...
Trade Wars: Monsanto’s Return to Vietnam by Desiree Hellegers
This article originally appeared at Counterpunch.org. The Push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, “Liberation Day” Celebrations, and New Initiatives in the Struggle Over the Toxic Legacy of Agent Orange Trade...
The dangerous search for Vietnam’s undetonated bombs by Barry Petersen
This article originally appeared at CBS Evening News. QUANG TRI PROVINCE, Vietnam - Though the war in Vietnam ended nearly 40 years ago, dangerous relics of the conflict still remain. CBS News recently followed...
Legacy of Agent Orange
This article originally appeared at Reuters: The Wider Image. Truc Ly, Vietnam Perspective by Damir Sagolj As April 30 approaches, marking 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, people in Vietnam with severe...
Prof. Kou Yang: The deadly, horrible mess we made still plagues Indochina
This article originally appeared at mercedsunstar.com. April 30, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. As we reflect on the legacies of the Vietnam War, two of the most deadly weapons of war...
THE LETHAL LEGACY OF THE VIETNAM WAR SPECIAL INVESTIGATION FORTY YEARS AFTER ITS END, VIETNAMESE ARE STILL COPING WITH UNEXPLODED BOMBS AND AGENT ORANGE BY GEORGE BLACK
This article originally appeared in print edition of The Nation on March 16, 2015. Photo credit: American troops in action on Hill 875 at Dak To (fall 1967), one of the bloodiest engagements of the war (US Army Heritage...
50 years on, veterans find healing by returning to Vietnam to help
This article originally appeared at PBS.org. Fifty years since the first major American combat unit was deployed to Vietnam, the lethal legacies of war still haunt generations of civilians in that country. Special...
Reviving the Tonkin Gulf incident by Rob Gowland
This article originally appeared at CPA-The Guardian. I see that they’re rewriting history again. Or, more accurately, not so much rewriting it as perpetuating a long-discredited lie. The US Pentagon has a website...
Jumping on the Vietnam War Commemoration Bandwagon: The Vain Search for Honor
This article originally appeared at huffingtonpost.com. As we settle into year three of the 13-year Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, which extends from May 28, 2012 to November 11, 2025,...
Wages of War: Vietnam and Iraq by John Tirman
This article originally appeared at HuffingtonPost.com. One of the frequent acts of hubris by war makers is to ignore the consequences of war that will last a generation...
The Endless Tragedy of Vietnam By Myra MacPherson
This article originally appeared at www.consortiumnews.com For the U.S. government, old lies die hard, even lies as discredited as blaming the North Vietnamese for the Tonkin Gulf incident in 1964, the non-event that...
Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy A Used War? by Lawrence Reichard
Hey, Buddy, Wanna Buy A Used War? I was raised by two historians. My father had a Harvard PhD in history and was a history professor, and my mother was ABD (all but dissertation) in history from Johns Hopkins. History...
Piascik: Vietnam: a longer view
This article originally appeared at www.ctpost.com John Mihalec's recent column ("50 Years Ago: The Start to Vietnam War," Feb. 7) is good for laughs but is seriously lacking as history. Here's some history that was...
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