Vietnam

Peace Movement Should Focus On China

December 26, 2013 Nile Bowie, www.rt.com Educate! China, Japan, Myanmar, The Philippines, TPP, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

Whether the US Agenda is War on an Arms Race, the US Peace Movement Should be Concerned. While the Middle East teeters on the brink of another prolonged conflict that would engender some form of US involvement, the Obama’s administration’s shift away from the region and toward East Asia is easier said than done. Though the “Pivot to Asia” policy of the Obama administration may not be stealing all the headlines, US military presence around the South China Sea and the Straits of Malacca is quietly building up, giving rise to increased American muscle in Southeast Asia. Obama announced the pivot policy during a visit to Australia in 2011, declaring a fully equipped 2,500-strong Marine task force operating from Darwin by 2016. The pivot to Asia is anything but an empty catchphrase, as the US Air Force is beginning to bolster its presence in bases in Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines, with plans to move 60 percent of US warships to the region by 2020. It’s no secret that these developments are the Pentagon’s response to China’s ever-increasing military and economic clout, and Uncle Sam is boldly sending the message that he’s coming to town. Washington’s objective is to build a Cold War-style security ring around China by deepening military partnerships with American allies in Southeast Asia, while broadening its capacity to police vital trade and energy chokepoints.

Lessons From An Adversary Of Empire

October 6, 2013 Alan Gilbert, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, a man who struck a great blow against French colonialism at Dienbienphu - a system whose evil was revealed in Indochina, and subsequently and even more intensely, in Algeria - and against the later American nearly genocidal effort at conquest. Giap is one of the greatest decent (in terms of cause) military leaders of revolutions or defensive wars in history, at least the equal in significance and tactics, to Hannibal against Rome or George Washington or the conqueror Napoleon, for example (oops...Giap like Toussaint, the leader of the only successful slave insurrection in all of history in Saint Domingue\Haiti, or Sitting Bull is...non-white...Of course, even Hannibal was from Carthage - a black city...) Giap was a co-leader with Ho Chi Minh in the freeing of Vietnam through determined struggle from below for 40 years from French, Japanese and American domination.

The CIA, The Press And Black Propaganda

September 17, 2013 Doug Valentine, www.counterpunch.org Educate! CIA, Syria, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

Simply stated, black propaganda is one of many criminal but legally deniable things the CIA does. It often involves committing a heinous crime and blaming it on an enemy by planting false evidence, and then getting a foreign newspaper to print the CIA’s scripted version of events, which sympathetic journalists in America broadcast to the gullible public. In the case of Syria, the CIA is using cooked Israeli “intelligence” as a catalyst – which is why, as Johnstone and Bricmont explain, the “intelligence” is so “dubious.” Black propaganda has other “intelligence” applications as well, and is often used to recruit informants, and create deserters and defectors.

US History of Overthrowing Elected Leaders

June 23, 2013 Andy Piascik, www.ctpost.com Educate! Brazil, Chile, Congo, Democracy, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Vietnam, Wars and Militarism

One dramatic change in the last 50 years is the consistent opposition of the American public to such interventions. This was perhaps best illustrated in the 1980’s when U.S. solidarity movements undoubtedly prevented greater bloodshed in South Africa, El Salvador, Nicaragua and possibly other places. One striking feature were the thousands who travelled to work alongside Nicaraguan peasants as well as to serve as a human shield, knowing the U.S. backed contras were less likely to murder Americans. The intelligentsia here, if it ever reported this remarkable phenomenon, surely prefers to forget; people in Nicaragua and the rest of Latin America, not to mention the Washington planners of contra terror, most definitely have not.

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