Tag: vietnam
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jfk: lone gunman doubts, marilyn’s box & the unspeakable
from dallas morning news: Use the latest scientific techniques to poke a hole or two in official findings on the Kennedy assassination and suddenly you have lots of new friends – and lots of enemies. Forty-five years after President John F. Kennedy was killed in a Dallas motorcade, the details surrounding his death remain topics…
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US shame still stings 40 years after my lai massacre
from monsters & critics: The soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 11th US Army Brigade, arrived in the morning. Their mission was clear. “The orders were to shoot anything that moved,” one US army officer told journalist Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist who broke the story in 1969. As the brigade pulled out three hours later…
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disrupt economies with man-made floods & droughts
from danger room: A recently-unearthed U.S. Navy research project calls for creating mad-made floods and droughts to “disrupt [the] economy” of an enemy state. “Weather modification was used successfully in Viet Nam to (among other things) hinder and impede the movement of personnel and material from North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam,” notes a…
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hormuz & tonkin: false flags then & now
pentagon backtracks on navy confrontation with iran, says threat may not have come from iraniansfrom thinkprogress: Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Navy said it had felt so threatened that it was about to open…
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44th anniversary of a coup d’etat
from oregon truth alliance: On November 22, 1963, the United States of America had a military coup d’etat – an event that most people chose not to see (a society of “not see’s”). President Kennedy was removed after changing his mind on the Cold War. He refused to invade Cuba during the Bay of Pigs…
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army desertion rate up 80% since 2003
from ap: Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. While the totals are still far lower than they were during the Vietnam War, when…
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tens of thousands protest at the pentagon
from afp/raw story: Tens of thousands of protesters marched to the Pentagon’s doorstep Saturday demanding “US out of Iraq Now,” ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US invasion. Demonstrators from across the United States gathered in a cold winter day to descend on the US Defense Department offices and decry the conflict that has…
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‘eerily like vietnam escalation’
from raw story: Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor, retired Lt. Colonel Oliver North, who hosts Fox News Channel’s War Stories, said that he doesn’t support President Bush’s plan to for 20,000 additional ground troops in Iraq. In this clip, O’Reilly quips that the conservative military analyst, best known for his key role in the Iran-Contra…