South-Eastern Asia

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The one-party political regime must be buried, once and for all, in the dustbin of history.

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I was pleased to travel in a Viet Nam not under military attack by a foreign power.

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The news was devastating. Two weeks after a successful speaking tour of the US in June 2007, two of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims on the delegation were dead.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong and Mr. Nguyen Van Quy, suffering respectively from terminal breast and stomach cancer, had come to share their stories with the people of the US.

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They will some day curse us for our pitiful willingness to let the Executive carry the burden that the Constitution places on us.

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"I'm often asked whether there aren't big differences between the Iraq War and Vietnam. And I'm always quick to say, of course, there are differences. In Iraq, it's a dry heat. And the language that none of our troops or diplomats speak is Arabic rather than Vietnamese." -Daniel Ellsberg

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Paul Joseph, reviews Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Nuclear weapons are different. We need to think differently too.

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Fred Marchant on Herzog

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Debka Colson on The Things They Carried

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Violence committed by US soldiers is a product of institutionalized violence of the military and its training, US racism against Asians, and the patriarchal social structure of host countries.

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The US maintains an unprecedented infrastructure of more than 700 US foreign military bases.