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French court blocks activist's quest to sue companies over Agent Orange

A Paris court has once again blocked an attempt by French-Vietnamese activist Tran To Nga to hold chemical companies accountable for the use of Agent Orange, which killed and maimed millions of people during the Vietnam War. The court upheld the companies' legal immunity – a decision that has sparked…

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French Court Dismisses Appeal In Agent Orange Case

A Paris court Thursday rejected an appeal by a French-Vietnamese woman who has been trying to sue Monsanto and other makers of Agent Orange for the chemical's use in the Vietnam war.

International Business Times

Biden’s closest aides hold secret talks about how to convince the president to step aside

One aide has said he has ‘no path’ to defeat Trump

The Independent UK

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American looks for dad's Thai ex-girlfriend

A user on the Reddit social network posted about looking for a former Thai girlfriend of his father who was near the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom during the Vietnam War.

Bangkok Post

The Dispossessed at 50: Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘anarchist utopia’ was an anguished response to war. Its political power endures

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most revered science fiction writers of all time. Her groundbreaking science-fiction novel The Dispossessed, written against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, speaks to historically specific forms of geopolitical violence and societal malaise. However, it continues to resonate today.

The Conversation

A lesson on dissent from a Vietnam War protester who joined the US military – and then faced execution after his protest didn’t stop

During the late 1960s, when protests against the Vietnam War erupted across the country, college campuses emerged as places of more than intellectual debate over U.S foreign policy and the country’s deeply racist history.

The Conversation

Student anger over the Vietnam War erupted into violence in the ’60s − a terrorism expert explores if the same could happen today

Following a wave of pro-Palestinian protests led by students at universities across the country, a few schools, like Brown University, say they are considering divesting from companies that support or work in Israel.

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Before Israel’s war on Gaza: Other times US campuses became battlegrounds

Students from Columbia and other US universities have protested the Vietnam war, the Gulf war and racism in the past.

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Vietnamese Actors Take Center Stage In 'The Sympathizer'

Discover how Vietnamese filmmaker Phanxinê and the cast of 'The Sympathizer' challenge traditional narratives of the Vietnam War through authentic storytel...

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The Best Vietnam War Movies And How To Watch Them

Here are 13 of the best Vietnam War movies and how to watch them.

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The Conversation

Martin Luther King Jr.'s moral stance against the Vietnam War offers lessons on how to fight for peace in the Middle East

Since the onset of Israel’s deadly assault on Gaza and the West Bank after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, debates have arisen among historians and media pundits about Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance on Israel and its conflicts with Palestinians.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tom Smothers dies at 86; was half of Smothers Brothers comedy duo

“The Smothers Brothers” show was a turning point in TV history, with its sharp eye for pop culture and daring sketches ridiculing the Establishment and railing against the Vietnam War. Network censors and CBS abruptly canceled the program in 1970.

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“Big jets moving, bombers, people in battle, distress, crying – the Vietnam War added a lot of darkness to his playing”: Kirk Hammett on how Jimi Hendrix’s guitar style helped birth metal and psychedelia

The Metallica man and Hendrix fan argues that the guitar icon's influence on metal is under-appreciated

Salon

When a liberal president goes to war

We drove LBJ from office — and got 50 years of dreadful Republican policy. Those who don't learn from history ...

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Book Review: Alice McDermott's 'Absolution' captures America with Vietnam War in the background

Alice McDermott’s ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of early 1960s America as the Vietnam War rumbled in the background and women led constricted lives as “helpmeets” for their husbands

The Independent UK

Who is Arthur Engoron? Judge weighing future of Donald Trump empire is Ivy League-educated ex-cabbie

The judge deciding the future of former President Donald Trump’s real estate empire has driven a taxi cab, played in a band and protested the Vietnam War

Salon

Joe Biden, Vietnam and fake history

Ever since the U.S. left Vietnam, presidents have treated the war as heroic history. Will that ever change?

The Conversation

How cartoonist Bruce Petty documented the Vietnam War – and how his great satire keeps finding its moment

After seven decades as a visual satirist provoking Australia as it is and might be, Bruce Petty passed away at 93 on April 6 this year.

The Guardian - AU

Australian War Memorial researchers identify 285 Indigenous servicemen who fought in the Vietnam war

A national ceremony in Canberra will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in the war

The Independent UK

Patrick Hamilton, ex-AP and Reuters photographer who covered Central American wars, dies at 74

Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer

Newcastle Herald

"Sugar Man" Rodriquez leaves sweet memories in Hunter

HUNTER Valley singer-songwriter Melody Pool has paid tribute to Sixto Rodriguez, who she described as, "a giant of truth through song". Rodriguez died on Tuesday after a short illness in the American singer-songwriter's hometown of Detroit. He was 81. Despite releasing his two studios Cold Fact and Coming From Reality…

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