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Vietnam War
From Pol Pot to ISIS: US Bombing Puts “Anything That Flies on Everything That Moves“
Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS is the mutation of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken …
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Ellsberg Sees Vietnam-Like Risks in ISIS War
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers exposing the Vietnam War lies, is alarmed at the many parallels between Vietnam and President Obama's new …
Moments of Radicalization – Eddie Conway on Reality Asserts Itself
Former Black Panther Eddie Conway speaks to the Real News.
Blood on All Our Hands: Don’t Thank Me for My Service Redux
Years after writing the much-read and controversial piece “Don't Thank Me for My Service,” Camillo (Mac) Bica reflects on the same theme, responding to readers who were taken aback …
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Against Forgetting: “The Phoenix Program” and the Awakening of Historical Memory
Douglas Valentine's “The Phoenix Program,” republished as the first in a series of repressed, forgotten books, shows the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and …
The Real Tonkin Gulf Deception Wasn’t by Lyndon Johnson
While many believe that the Tonkin Gulf incident was a deception by Lyndon Johnson, the US bombing of North Vietnam was not a maneuver by LBJ.
A Brief History of GI Resistance During the Vietnam War
As the controversy continues over the prisoner swap involving US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, peace activist and author David Cortright recounts the history of US soldiers organizing against the Vietnam …
Growing Up in the Cauldron of 1960’s Detroit
Robert Johnson, who while working with George Soros “broke the Bank of England,” talks about growing up in the turmoil of racial tension and the mass movement against the …
Daniel Ellsberg: United States Nearly Used Nukes During Vietnam War
At the annual meeting of Stanford's anti-Vietnam War group, Daniel Ellsberg emphasized the continued relevance of that war's distorted cultural memory.
Remembering Vincent Harding, the Civil Rights Activist Who Wrote MLK’s Speech Against Vietnam War
Amy Goodman spends the hour remembering the pioneering historian, theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Vincent Harding.