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Vietnam War

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Making More Enemies Than We Kill? Calculating US Bomb Tonnages Dropped on Laos and Cambodia and Weighing Their Implications
Is there any correlation between bomb tonnage and political blowback?

Agent Orange: Terrible Legacy of the Vietnam War
The US has never compensated the Vietnamese people for their suffering due to the use of the chemical.

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The 40th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War: What Every American Should Know
As our nation approaches the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a major effort is underway to change how we view the war, how history records …

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Forty Years Later, Will the End Games in Iraq and Afghanistan Follow the Vietnam Playbook?
Toss out the historical background and you can recast any U.S. mission as a flawed but honorable, if not noble, effort by good-guy rescuers to save innocents from the …

The Endless Tragedy of Vietnam
For the US government, old lies die hard.

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When Soldiers Say No to War
This year we mark the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Truce.

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The Vietnam War, the Two Lost Chances for Peace, the “Vietnam Syndrome” – Yet Now a Neocon Resurrection
A Cold War mindset persists in the US, where “socialism” is still a dirty word.

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Fifty Years Ago: A Turning Point in Civil Rights, the 1960s and US Politics
As we observe important 50-year anniversaries, we are also losing awareness of the power and potential of direct political action.

Corporate Mind Control, Killer Furniture, Bee Deaths and Whitewashing Vietnam
The Redacted team shows you ways to die that should scare you more than Ebola, cracks the corporate manipulation code, Boston-cremes its pants for Dunkin' Donuts and gets creative …

US Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History
The Pentagon plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history.