Vietnam

Tales of the American Empire | August 23, 2019

America’s Covid-19 death toll surpasses number of Vietnam War fatalities while its ex-battlefield foe reports no virus deaths to date
Richard S EHRLICH
More Americans have died from Covid-19 than were killed during the Vietnam War, a grim milestone coinciding with Hanoi officially reporting zero deaths from the coronavirus.
“Fighting the epidemic is like fighting against the enemy,” the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has declared.

The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
Anis CHOWDHURY in Sydney and Jomo Kwame SUNDARAM in Kuala Lumpur

By Marko | The Voluntaryist Reader | 12/10/2012

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My Lai: the old tree that survived, while the village and people around it did not (Photo: Andre Vltchek © 2020)
Andre Vltchek
21st Century Wire
My Lai. My Son… This story is short, but it is telling. And I have travelled far, in order to bring it to my readers.

Vietnam is one of Russia’s oldest and most reliable partners in Asia. Friendly relations were established back in the years of the Indochina Wars of the 1950s-1970s. At that time, the Soviet Union helped Vietnamese Communists to first get rid of the French colonialists, then to defeat the Western-ruled South Vietnam, which was backed by US forces, and finally to create the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), which exists to this day.

This week, two countries came dangerously close to war. From the onset of this crisis, the Trump Administration insisted that there were imminent attacks being planned by the Iranians, and there was no time to waste. ‘We must act now, to save American lives,’ was the all too familiar battle cry from Washington and its mainstream media surrogates. There was no debate at the time. Urgency carried the day.

By Stephen Lendman
On Monday, a surprising Washington Post report headlined:
“The Afghanistan Papers — A secret history of the war. At War With the Truth,” saying:
“US officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.” More on this below.

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