News and Analysis: Vietnam

Remembering Gen. Giap

The death of a giant

October 12, 2013

Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap who helped defeat Japan, then France, then the United States in a 35-year war for national independence, died in Hanoi on Oct. 4 at the age of 102.

The hidden history of Black soldiers’ resistance

A courageous anti-imperialist tradition

February 25, 2013

While fighting at home against the hypocrisy of the U.S. government, generations of Black service members have stood and fought against U.S. imperialism abroad.

Reversing the Vietnam War verdict

Commentary

June 20, 2012

The Pentagon has just launched a multi-year national public relations campaign to justify, glorify and honor Washington's catastrophic, aggressive and losing war against Vietnam.

On the 100th birthday of the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap

The centenary of an illustrious combatant

August 26, 2011

Yesterday, the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, communist and great revolutionary leader, turned 100 years old. He is one of the most relevant figures of Vietnam’s history.

Vietnam implements sweeping disability rights legislation

In brief

July 10, 2010

Vietnam implemented sweeping disability rights legislation. Ratified by the National Assembly, the law guarantees equality for people with disabilities in respect to education, work, health care, sports and entertainment, transportation and more.

Agent Orange continues to poison Vietnam

In brief

September 19, 2009

According to environmental tests by Canada’s Hatfield Consultants Ltd., there are extremely high levels of the notorious Agent Orange, containing the deadly chemical dioxin, in Vietnam. Tests found Agent Orange in people, fish and soil near a former U.

U.S. tradition of torture stands test of time

From plantation slavery to Guantánamo

September 26, 2008

The Bush administration would like the trials of prisoners at Guantánamo to legitimize its assaults on basic human rights and validate its criminal "war on terror." But whether the government likes it or not, the trials will put its widespread use of torture under a spotlight.

Crack the sky, shake the Earth

The 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive

March 7, 2008

Tet, as it is simply called by many who fought in the Vietnam war, is a word that has become synonymous with breaking the myth of U.S. military invincibility. Forty years ago, Vietnamese soldiers from the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF) launched an offensive that changed the tide of the war leading to the eventual defeat of U.

ASEAN Leaders repudiate Myanmar sanctions

In brief

November 26, 2007

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stated on Nov. 18 that they do not support the U.S. sanctions against Myanmar. The pronouncement rejected in no unclear terms a U.S. Senate call from two days earlier, urging ASEAN to suspend Myanmar from the organization.

Soldiers and the anti-war movement

Resistance and revolution

September 21, 2007

The writer is an Iraq war veteran currently living in Florida. He was arrested on Sept. 15 with nearly 200 others while bringing an anti-war message directly to Congress. After four years of illegal occupation we have seen nearly 4,000 U.

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