Category Archives: Vietnam War

The Anti-Vietnam War Movement In 39 Photos

Posted on July 15, 2018 by

Prominent civil rights leaders and activists would come out against the war as the decade wore on. In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation. “In 2003, Senator John Kerry offered the following thoughts on the … Continue reading →

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The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

Bombs, Agent Orange and the Lethal Legacy of Bombs in Quang Tri “Shading my eyes from the bright sun, I stared into the bomb crater amid the verdant rice paddies. While it had been nearly 50 years since the last … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Now (1979)/ Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) – Francis Ford Coppola

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

“Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola. It was co-written by John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert … Continue reading →

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Algeria and the American Black Panther Party

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

Eldridge Cleaver “As airline travel became more common in the 1950s and 1960s, hijacking planes also became a common practice. By the early 1970s, nearly 160 high jacking incidents occurred. The book ‘The Skies Belong to Us‘ by the American … Continue reading →

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The Art and Activism of Grace Paley

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

Paley’s fiction is peopled with the politically minded but it never preaches. “There’s a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Schell

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

“Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons. His work appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch. … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Vietnam War Machine

Posted on June 18, 2018 by

NARMIC’s top 100 defense contractors list, which continued after the war. Here is a 1977 edition. “Diana Roose was a longtime staffer with National Action/Research on the Military-Industrial Complex, or NARMIC, as it was commonly known. NARMIC was a group … Continue reading →

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