March 2018
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “What Was the Vietnam War About?” by Christian Appy, New York Times, posted March 26. The author teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and has written extensively on the Vietnam War. “Renaming the 1948 War: Partition, Dispossession, and Fragmentation” by Richard Falk, ZNet, posted March 25. The author is a professor emeritus…
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Truth may be the first casualty of war, but it never dies. Truth can be revived. Lies and deceptions need not stand for an eternity. The U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide website – alias “peace history” – is dedicated to telling the truth, methodically unpacking unspoken assumptions, deceptions, and “fake news” about U.S. wars…
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On March 16th, 1968 , over 500 Vietnamese men, women and children were killed in the hamlets of My Lai-4 and My Khe in Quang Ngai Province by American soldiers in what became known as the MY LAI massacre, the most notorious atrocity in the Vietnam War. The events were immediately covered up and were…
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H-PAD supporters, This coming March 16 is the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre of over 500 Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops at My Lai. H-PAD calls on its supporters to join others in remembering qand denouncing this war crime. Two H-PAD Steering Committee members, Ellen Schrecker and James Swarts (part of the Veterans for Peace…
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The fiftieth anniversary of the My Lai massacre offers an opportunity to reflect on the Vietnam War and learn from it. The Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee (VPCC) is organizing events in Washington from March 15-18. These include a vigil in Lafayette Square across from the White House on Friday, March 16, noon to 1:00 p.m.,…