vietnam war
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New Four-Part Documentary “JFK: Destiny Betrayed” Leaves No Doubt That JFK Was Assassinated as Part of CIA Coup
OLIVER STONE FILM SHOWS THAT JFK WAS TRYING TO REORIENT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN MORE PEACEFUL DIRECTION PRIOR TO HIS MURDER AND THAT THE WARREN COMMISSION WAS A FRAUD. JFK: Destiny Betrayed presents convincing evidence confirming that U.S. intelligence orchestrated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Continue reading
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Did the CIA Subvert the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election?
Overwhelming Evidence that the CIA Tripped Up Eugene McCarthy, Murdered Robert F. Kennedy, and Hamstrung Hubert Humphrey—all to Give America Tricky Dick Continue reading
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Global Warfare: The Great Purveyor of Violence Is the United States of America. The Legacy of Ramsey Clark
Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the countries these sanctions target. Continue reading
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Why It’s Ugly To Criticize Trump For Dodging The Vietnam Draft
There’s a popular tweet going around saying “Do you know what the 58,220 American Dead from the Vietnam War will have in common with the 58,220 American dead expected this midweek? Donald Trump refused to fight for either one of them.” The tweet has thousands of shares and made it to the front page of Reddit today. Liberals love… Continue reading
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The Killing of History By John Pilger
In the series’ press release in Britain — the BBC will show it — there is no mention of Vietnamese dead, only Americans. “We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy,” Novick is quoted as saying. How very post-modern. All this will be familiar to those who have observed how the American… Continue reading
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The Evil That Was the Phoenix Program By Ron Jacobs
There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1986 book, The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. This masterwork is more than an exposé of the US pacification program in Vietnam the book is titled after. It is an indictment of a cynical and bloody plan to kill… Continue reading
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White House Tape Recordings: “No, no, no … I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that?”
Nixon: America is not defeated. We must not lose in Vietnam. … The surgical operation theory is all right, but I want that place bombed to smithereens. If we draw the sword, we’re gonna bomb those bastards all over the place. Let it fly, let it fly. Continue reading
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Seeking Compensation for Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims, 52 years on By Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam, a long time with NO without sufficient remedial action by the U.S. government. One of the most shameful legacies of the American War against Vietnam, Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam and the people exposed to the chemicals, as well… Continue reading
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Video: How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon… Continue reading
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The Wall Street Demos Commemorating ML King’s 1967 Anti-War Speech & 1968 Assassination By Lenni Brenner
King was in in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 with his Poor People’s Campaign, supporting the lowest of the low, the city striking ‘garbage men.’ Thus it is fitting that this April 3rd and 4th saw Wall Street demos, called in his memory, against Barack Obama’s stuffing the pockets of the rich with Main Street’s taxes. Continue reading
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Video: FINALLY, AFTER 35-YEARS IN EXILE FTA IS BACK!
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 24 EXCLUSIVELY ON DVD FROM DISPLACED FILMS AND NEW VIDEO/ DOCURAMA 1971, a massive GI Movement to end the Vietnam war was sweeping through troops, wreaking havoc on the U.S. military. Into that mix came the FTA Show, a caustic, electrifying, sharply antiwar comedy… http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2195431 FTA: Ultra-Rare! F.T.A. (aka FREE THE ARMY aka Continue reading
The New Dark Age 