American Fangs
Dear Carla Twice I read Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Because of your enthusiastic recommendation I was captivated I was crestfallen Thuy’s diary revealed her commitment Comparable to that…
Category: The War-making State
American Fangs
Dear Carla Twice I read Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Because of your enthusiastic recommendation I was captivated I was crestfallen Thuy’s diary revealed her commitment Comparable to that…
She Should Have Won the National Book Award
But then I think What do these awards mean They gotta serve somebody I’ve checked the libraries It’s her only book On this—or any— subject Why should the luminaries and guardians honor her Which is…
We Expect the Germans
To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was
We Expect the Germans
To know their own history To tell the truth about their war To refuse rationalizations and excuses To act responsibility here and now However many decades Ago that was
Hearts and Minds, Revisited by Mark Chmiel and Andrew Wimmer
This article was first published at Counterpunch, January 12, 2005. The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people who actually live out there. –Lyndon Johnson, on Vietnam There is…
What One Veteran Said
Vietnam veteran Wayne Smith: We were broken. I had so much anger and pain. I was crushed. I left like I had blood on my hands. I resisted calling the Vietnamese gooks and dinks, but…
What One Veteran Said
Vietnam veteran Wayne Smith: We were broken. I had so much anger and pain. I was crushed. I left like I had blood on my hands. I resisted calling the Vietnamese gooks and dinks, but…
Touching a Nerve
According to my FBI documents, [President Richard] Nixon was more obsessed with me than with the president of Russia. He was obsessed with this movie star that was working with the GIs. –Jane Fonda, from…
From Thich Nhat Hanh’s First Book Published in the USA, 1967
The more American troops sent to Vietnam, the more the anti-American campaign led by the NLF becomes successful. Anger and hatred rise in the hearts of the peasants as they see their villages burned, their…