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There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: His transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent

There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent

“Stranger Things” ventures beyond Demogorgons to explore weightier topics, including the Vietnam War’s forgotten victims of Agent Orange.

War, Herbicides and Moral Disengagement  By Robert C. Koehler,  Common Wonders, 11 Aug 21 And the least secret agent of all . . . Agent Orange! On August 10, 1961, the United States, several years before it actually sent troops, started poisoning the forests and crops of Vietnam with herbicides. The purpose: to deprive our declared…

Are you eating America’s left-over chemical warfare to be used as agricultural poison on our food supply? “From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. Air Force sprayed nearly 19 million gallons of herbicides in Vietnam, of which at least 11 million gallons was Agent Orange, in a military project called Operation Ranch Hand.” – Veterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam The legacy of Agent Orange and Monsanto’s attempt to defoliate the hiding places of the Viet Cong is s...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Toxic legacy: How the U.S. military’s use of Agent Orange poisoned Vietnam June 2, 2021 3:37 PM CDT By Amiad Horowitz Neighborhood children look through a window at Tran Thi Le Huyen, 23, sitting in a wheelchair in her family home in Danang, Vietnam in this May 21, 2007, file ...

The following article is the first installment in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. Part one provides historical background to the issue; the next will cover the victims and their legal battles. Mr. Nguyễn Thanh Sơn was barely an adult in the 1960s when he joined the People’s Army of Vietnam, known to Americans at the time as the North Vietnamese Army, or the NVA. Mr.

 Dissident Voice: here and here. I even did a review of that documentary,  The People VS Agent Orange, which highlights Tran To Nga‘s fight in France — “Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes“. Here’s one passage from that story I wrote: Dr. James Clary was with the Air Force in Vietnam, which ran the program. He was ordered to dump the computer and erase all memory. Instead, he printed out a stack of documents two feet high – missions, sorties, coordinates, dates, gallons d...

Story highlights Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. military employed approximately 19.5 million gallons of herbicides in South Vietnam to clear vegetation believed to conceal enemy troops and which provided food for them Forty-six years have passed since the Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975. While some Americans may prefer to forget its atrocities, and Vietnam is focused on forgiveness and the future, the wounds of Agent Orange victims still demand attention. Between 1962 and 1971, the U.S. mi...