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Cover of On the Ho Chi Minh Trail (University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Book Review: ‘On the Ho Chi Minh Trail’ Leaves U.S. War Propaganda Intact

Nick Flores January 14, 2022 Nick Flores

Sherry Buchanan’s "On the Ho Chi Minh Trail" criticizes a few isolated events that took place during the U.S. war on Vietnam. This speaks more to the depressing ignorance of so-called progressives in the West than to the experiences of Vietnamese women, writes Nick Flores.

A U.S. Air Force Douglas Skyraider drops a white phosphorus bomb on a Viet Cong position in South Vietnam in 1966 / credit: U.S. Air Force

The Exploiter Harms—But Look At What Happens to the Exploiter, Too

Bharat Dogra December 30, 2021 Bharat Dogra

If there is a better understanding and a wider recognition of how exploiters suffer in the process of exploitation, new openings can emerge to convince the more powerful regarding the futility of prolonging exploitative relations and systems, writes Bharat Dogra.

U.S. President Donald Reagan toasts with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan during a reception at the Blue House, the South Korean presidential palace in Seoul on November 13, 1983 / credit: White House

South Korean Dictator Dies, Western Media Resurrects a Myth

K.J. Noh December 24, 2021 K.J. Noh

South Korea’s history offers a stark and ominous lesson, one the mainstream media would prefer the public ignore. The United States has taken brutal actions to maintain control and hegemony, writes K.J. Noh.

Malina Suliman (Afghanistan), Girl in the Ice Box, 2013.

Create Two, Three, Many Saigons. That Is the Watchword.

Tricontinental Institute for Social Research August 19, 2021 Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

The Afghans are largely glad to see the back of the U.S. occupation, to be one more Saigon in a long sequence. But this is not a victory for humanity. It will not be easy for Afghanistan to emerge out of these nightmare decades, but the desire to do so can still be heard.

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