Saturday, 20 April , 2024

Vietnam war

Forces Behind Trump Prepare Nuclear War. China helping by not opposing

US Dominated Security Council Tightens Savage Sanctions on North Korea, Intentional Provocations to War By Carla Stea Introduction On September 24, 2017, The New York Times published...

Truth and Lives vs. Career and Fame | by Ray...

August 20, 2017 Fifty years ago, I could have tried to stop the Vietnam War, but lacked the courage. On Aug. 20, 1967, we at CIA...

Nuclear Madness

April 5, 2017 This Madness Deserves a Protest: an Inside Account at US Nuclear Weapons Strategy by Joan Roelofs “In contrast to the Soviet Union, the United...

North Korea blames the US for Climate Change, Use of Nuclear...

By Tom O'Connor On 6/10/17 North Korea has accused U.S. military and environmental policies of causing climate change and producing pollution around the world. In...

Create two, three …many Vietnams, by Ernesto Che Guevara

Guevara, born in Argentina, joined the movement led by Fidel Castro and other Cuban revolutionaries and became a commander in the Cuban Rebel Army. After the overthrow of the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he became one of the central leaders of the new workers and farmers government. Guevara held a number of posts,

Tom Hayden (1939-2016) on Vietnam War

Legendary civil rights and antiwar activist Tom Hayden died Sunday in Santa Monica, California, after a lengthy illness. He was 76 years old. Hayden spent decades shaping movements against war and for social justice. In the early 1960s, he was the principal author of the Port Huron Statement, the founding document of Students for a Democratic

Facebook backs down, will no longer censor the iconic ‘Napalm Girl’...

If you were to pick a handful of images that changed how people think about war, Nick Ut’s most famous photograph would surely be among them. The image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc running from napalm — her skin burning, her clothes burned away — defined the horrors of the Vietnam War.

How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood

Eric sits down with author Nicholas Schou to discuss his new book Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood. Eric and Nick explore the history of CIA manipulation of the media going back decades, and how it has evolved into the propaganda consensus we see today. The conversation touches on everything from Nicaragua and the Reagan counter-revolution to the sycophantic relationship between Hollywood and Langley.