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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 Conversation

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 Guardian - AU

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

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"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…

Newcastle Herald

Honoring the last of ‘The Greatest Generation’

Henry W. Clark, a World War II veteran from Harvey, plans to be on board a July 12 Honor Flight Chicago bound for Washington, D.C. So does the Rev. George Kane, a retired Catholic priest, who was a chaplain during the Vietnam War.

Chicago Sun-Times

The New York Times worried that publishing the Pentagon Papers would destroy the newspaper — and the reputation of the US

The late Daniel Ellsberg was a former government contractor who leaked the classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times.

The Conversation

50 years since US troops left Vietnam, bombs continue to kill

US has channelled millions to clean up UXO but farmers and children continue to discover unexploded missiles.

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After 57-year delay, A Vietnam War veteran receives US Army Air Medal

George Thomas Keeney, 76, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was due to receive his Air Medal from the U.S. Army on Nov. 6, 1966 — but it never came.

Tribune News Service

Daniel Ellsberg obituary

Whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers showing that the American public had been misled about the Vietnam war

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed US pretext for Vietnam War, dead at 92

Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified Pentagon Papers has died at 92

The New Daily

RIP Daniel Ellsberg, Who Told the World the Truth About the Vietnam War

The Pentagon Papers leaker risked prison to reveal that American military officials were lying to Congress and the public about Vietnam. He died today at age 92.

Reason

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg dead at 92

NEW YORK - Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War -- changing public perceptions of the conflict -- died on Friday, his family announced. He was 92.

Bangkok Post

History-making whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has died at 92

Ellsberg's release of what were called the "Pentagon Papers" hastened the end of the Vietnam war, prompted a landmark Supreme Court ruling and contributed to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

WEKU

Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower, dies aged 92

Analyst who leaked studies showing US government knew the Vietnam war was un-winnable became activist and writer

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Messages hidden in art

Nakhon Phanom airport was established during the Vietnam War to facilitate the transportation of supplies and troops for the US military. The airport served as a strategic location for the US Army to access Vietnam by flying over Laos which borders Thailand.

The Independent UK

Former US diplomat Henry Kissinger celebrates 100th birthday, still active in global affairs

Former diplomat and presidential advisor Henry Kissinger is marking his 100th birthday, outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War

The Philadelphia Inquirer

They fell in love at Swarthmore College, then went on to help save Rwanda's mountain gorilla from extinction

When Amy Vedder was a student at Swarthmore more than 50 years ago and went on strike to protest the Vietnam War, the refrain from the college was one of support: "Go do something about it."

The Conversation

'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…

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White power movements in US history have often relied on veterans -- and not on lone wolves

For decades, the white power movement has gained steady momentum in the U.S. Kathleen Belew is an expert on the history of the white power movement and its current impact on American society and politics. Her book “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” examines how…

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Missile focus of Defence Strategic Review indicates shift away from peacekeeping, veteran says

Australia's Defence Strategic Review, which calls for the country to increase its missile capabilities, indicates a shift away from peacekeeping, army veteran James Brown tells Q+A.

Salon

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

The establishment has tried to sanitize Ellsberg. But his lessons on the madness of war are even more relevant now

WEKU

A Vietnam War massacre case from 1968 forces a new reckoning in South Korea

A Vietnamese woman sued South Korea's government over a wartime massacre in her village by South Korean soldiers. A Seoul court recently ruled in her favor but the government will appeal the decision.

The Independent UK

Why the debate over repealing Iraq War approval matters

Congress is now considering doing something it hasn’t done since the Vietnam War — repealing authorizations for the use of military force

WEKU

Congress revisits approval for Iraq invasion, recalling change of heart on Vietnam

In terms of domestic politics, the Iraq War followed the trajectory of the Vietnam War, which also relied on a resolution supporting the use of military force that Congress passed and later repealed.

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Embling obituary

Other lives: Teacher, librarian and dedicated activist in protests against the Vietnam war and nuclear weapons

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