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12Dec

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345,000 VERY LOW IQ MEN DELIBERATELY DRAFTED FOR VIETNAM 'Video'

NOVANEWS HALF WERE ASSIGNED TO COMBAT UNITS THE DEATH TOLL WAS APPALLING” War is cruel in an infinite number of ways. Here’s one few people are aware of. The story of “McNamara’s Folly”, also known as “Project 100,000.” During the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. The death toll was appalling.

12Dec

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THE VIETNAM WAR HEROIN EPIDEMIC 'Video'

NOVANEWS WHO STARTED IT? GIVE ME A “C”, GIVE ME AN “I”, GIVE ME AN “A” Do you know who kicked off the heroin epidemic of the 1960s? In New York City alone, over 40,000 soldiers who were addicted to heroin in Vietnam came home with raging drug habits. They were unemployed, abandoned by the government, and well trained in maniacal violence. It is any wonder violent crime and murder rates spiked in the city in the 60s and 70s? The next big spike came in the late 1980s and early 1990s when abundant cheap cocaine came up from Latin America and was marketed in the form of crack. What is the common denominator to these twin catastrophes? The CIA. Vietnam: The roots of the 1960s crime wave

8Nov

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McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War

NOVANEWS Hamilton Gregory A presentation and reading by Hamilton Gregory, author of “McNamara’s Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam.” Because so many college students were avoiding military service during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. Their death toll in combat was appalling. Related Russian Sappers Departing for Laos to Clear Country of US Bombs – Reports In "Militarism" The Illusion of War Without Casualties In "Militarism" The Tragic Failure of Ken Burns Vietnam In "Deception"

31Aug

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Eyeing Landmark Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case, Vietnam Demands Monsanto Be Held Liable Over Agent Orange

NOVANEWS "We believe Monsanto should be responsible for compensating Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange for the damages caused by the company's herbicides" by: Andrea Germanos A man wears a shirt calling for justice for Agent Orange victims during the March Against Monsanto in San Francisco on May 23, 2015. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc) In the wake of a U.S. court ordering Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages to man who says its weedkiller Roundup caused his cancer, Vietnam has called on the agrichemical giant to pay reparations to Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. "This case is a precedent that rejects previous arguments that the herbicides supplied to the U.S. military by Monsanto and other U.S. chemical companies during the Vietnam War are not harmful to...

10Aug

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THE FALSE FLAG THAT STARTED THE VIETNAM WAR 'Video'

NOVANEWS THERE WAS NO TORPEDO ATTACK IN THE GULF OF TONKIN HOW LYNDON JOHNSON LIED US INTO A CATASTROPHE On this day in 1964, Congress passed the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” which began massive escalation of the US war and occupation of Viet Nam. This is a bit slow moving video, but stick with it. It’s full of gems: 1. The “incident” never happened and at least one of the radar man on duty knew and reported it (“Radar men” were later blamed for the false report.” 2. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution and all the immediate retaliatory actions after the “incident” had to have been planned weeks if not months in advance of August 4th. 3. We were lied into the Vietnam War with a faked incident attributed to North Vietnam – a classic false flag operation. In 19...

2Apr

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The Scourge of War and The Children of Vietnam

NOVANEWS The Photographic Essay by William Pepper on the Children of Vietnam that Martin Luther King first saw on January l4, l967. How Will We Challenge Militarism, Racism, and Extreme Materialism? By David T. Ratcliffe ratical.org This is an exposition of the photographic essay by William Pepperabout the children of Vietnam that Martin Luther King first saw on January l4, 1967. Initially, while he hadn’t had a chance to read the text, it was the photographs that stopped him. As Bernard Lee who was present at the time said, “Martin had known about the [Vietnam] war before then, of course, and had spoken out against it. But it was then that he decided to commit himself to oppose it.” Pepper’s essay contains the most powerful creative energy on earth: truth force. It is as relevan...

3Mar

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50 Years after the Tet Offensive: Commemorating Vietnam’s victory

NOVANEWS By Tina Duong lowing article is based on a talk given at a PSL Community Forum in Los Angeles. This year’s Lunar New Year marks the 50th anniversary of the victory by the Vietnamese people in the arduous battles of the Tet Offensive, so named because it took place on the Lunar New Year’s Eve of 1968. Though the history of the Tet Offensive and the entire Vietnam War is muddled by bourgeois history and popular mythology, the Tet Offensive was a critical turning point for the Vietnamese people’s fight for independence and for socialism. Moreover, it was a major defeat for world imperialism. By January, 1968 the United States was heavily involved in an escalating war on the people of Vietnam as the Vietnamese people continued a nearly 30-year long national liberation struggle. T...

1Feb

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Assault on the Embassy: The Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later

NOVANEWS On January 31, 1968, Viet Cong forces attacked the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as part of the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War. On the eve of the 50th anniversary, veteran war correspondent Don North takes us back to that momentous event. By Don North ABC News correspondent Don North covering the Vietnam War. It was the eve of battle. Ngo Van Giang, known as Captain Ba Den to the Viet Cong troops he led, had spent weeks smuggling arms and ammunition into Saigon under boxes of tomatoes. Ba Den was about to lead 15 sappers, a section of the J-9 Special Action Unit, against an unknown target. Only eight of the unit were actually trained experts in explosives. The other seven were clerks and cooks who signed up for the dangerous mission mainly to escape the rigors of...

11Nov

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Analysis of Vietnam-Perkasie

NOVANEWS The following is an analysis of a book of self-experience, Vietnam-Perkasie, written by a Marine who served during the Vietnam War. There is also a bit of author analysis regarding the Vietnam War and those who served there included here. By: Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN guyijcinok.blogspot.com The Vietnam-American War was very different from the previous wars that America had been involved in. This war had no defined battle front, defied the use of conventional means of waging war, had allies whose commitment to the cause were in doubt, endured anti-war sentiment on the home front, returned soldiers to a nation who did not regale them as heroes, seemed to lack a clear purpose and obtainable objective, and plunged hundreds of thousands of America’s young males into an alien...

23Oct

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What We Still Haven’t Learned from the Vietnam War

NOVANEWS By Jimmy Falls WhoWhatWhy Featured image: Vietnam War protestors march at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on October 21, 1967. (Photo credit: Frank Wolfe / LBJ Library / Wikimedia) Fifty years ago today, in 1967, nearly 100,000 Americans marched on Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War. In those days there was a mandatory draft in place, and the risk was very real that a young man just out of high school could quickly wind up 13,000 miles away, fighting an unseen enemy in jungles that didn’t need tanks or B-52 bombers to inflict fear. Worse yet was the possibility of going MIA or coming home in a body bag — just another expendable statistic in the great fight against communism. But even many of those who made it back left part of their souls in that war zone. Today...