Vietnam war
Remembering union brother Jimmy Hooks
November 19, 2021Even though Veterans Day has passed, I just wanted to get his name out there. If his friends didn’t remember, he would be just another forgotten working class hero added to a long list.
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The costs of U.S. empire’s ‘forever wars’
August 26, 2021Back in the days when I was growing up (before the Vietnam War), we were told that the United States had never “lost” a war. Teachers would point to the two World Wars, the Spanish-American and Mexican-American...
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Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam
June 3, 2021Despite repeated promises to do more for the victims of Agent Orange, to this day not a single Vietnamese victim has seen a dollar of compensation from the U.S. government.
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Toxic legacy: How the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange poisoned Vietnam
June 2, 2021From 1961 to 1973, the U.S. military dropped an estimated 81,000,000 liters of various chemicals on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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Red Scare foreign policy is back, 46 years after end of Vietnam War
April 30, 2021Some forces are trying to push a new Cold War, this time against China.
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