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Vietnam war: how US involvement has influenced foreign policy decisions over 50 years

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the US withdrawal from Vietnam and the war still casts long shadows over American life.

The Conversation · Jan 9, 2023

Is there a 'right to disobey’? From the Vietnam War to today's climate protests

One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labour government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their beliefs. Their crime had been refusal to comply with the National Service Act, a so-called “lottery of death” that sent some 15,300 young Australians to fight in…

The Conversation · Dec 25, 2022

Caro still working away on fifth LBJ book, no pub date set

The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words

The Independent UK · Dec 20, 2022

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Police solve murder of 89-year-old woman in 1994 after ingenious DNA breakthrough

The authorities exhumed the Vietnam veteran’s remains in August this year and tests confirmed that his DNA was a match for the semen found on Lillian DeCloe's nightgown

Daily Mirror · Dec 15, 2022

Letter: Wilko Johnson obituary

Brian Bennison writes: the guitarist was a somewhat unorthodox chair of the Newcastle University Socialist Society

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2022

Can your school tell you what to wear?

For years, courts have debated self expression and gender expression in schools

Salon · Nov 22, 2022

Theatre group pulls play from Sheffield venue staging Miss Saigon

New Earth Theatre said ‘damaging tropes, misogyny and racism’ in show contradict its values

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2022

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One deadly, humid day that changed Australia's Vietnam War

The bloody Battle of Long Tan continues to resonate.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 20, 2022

How much can public schools control what students wear?

School dress codes can be harmful to LGBTQ students and students of color, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. These codes can lead school officials to punish these two groups for simply who they are or for expressing themselves.

The Conversation · Nov 14, 2022

Chiefs to wear commemorative patch for Salute to Service game during Week 10

The #Chiefs are wearing a commemorative patch in Week 10, honoring Derrick Thomas' father and others who served in Operation Linebacker in the Vietnam War.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 13, 2022

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure books were my introduction to horror’

The Booker-winning author on Vietnam war stories and the brutality of Jane Austen

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

What is affirmative action, anyway? 4 essential reads

Race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions could soon be a thing of the past. At least that’s the impression many observers got after listening to oral arguments about the practice before the U.S Supreme Court.

The Conversation · Nov 7, 2022

Conservative US Supreme Court reconsidering affirmative action, leaving the use of race in college admissions on the brink of extinction

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action.

The Conversation · Nov 1, 2022

Trump 2024 campaign seeks to recruit man who smeared John Kerry – reports

Ex-president eyeing Chris LaCivita, whose 2004 ‘Swift Boat’ campaign questioned Kerry’s Vietnam war record

The Guardian - US · Oct 26, 2022

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Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2022

Rishi Sunak wields the axe as he sacks a string of cabinet ministers

“Who am I? Why am I here?“ As self-deprecating opening lines go, this one backfired. The year is 1992, the debate stage is set, and Admiral James Stockdale – a Vietnam War hero and vice presidential running mate of Ross Perot – has just introduced himself to the American people.…

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 19, 2022

Marine vet Ald. Villegas urges city to reinstate Veterans Affairs Office

The office was disbanded in 2019, but the need remains for former U.S. service members who need help with homelessness, joblessness, substance abuse and other issues, the 36th Ward alderperson said.

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Putin has lost more troops in Ukraine than US did in whole of Vietnam war – report

Ukraine says more than 65,000 Russian soldiers killed in war so far, around 7,000 more than US fatalities in Vietnam conflict spanning 20 years

Foreign Affairs · Oct 14, 2022

What Nixon’s Endgame Reveals About Putin’s

Russia’s war in Ukraine could end like the Vietnam War.

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The Guardian - AU · Oct 11, 2022

Lidia Thorpe to lodge press council complaint over voice report; attorney general says pursuit of Assange has ‘gone on long enough’ – as it happened

Mark Dreyfus says most anti-corruption hearings will be private and only public in exceptional circumstances. This blog is now closed

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022

Vietnam asks Netflix to remove Little Women series over scenes addressing Vietnam War

Hit South Korean drama is based loosely on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott

Tribune News Service · Sep 28, 2022

Movie review: 'The Greatest Beer Run Ever' recounts war story that's stranger than fiction

For his follow-up feature to his Oscar-winning 2018 film “Green Book,” director Peter Farrelly (known mostly for his comic collaborations with his brother Bobby) has turned to a genial true story from the Vietnam War. “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” isn’t your typical Vietnam film. Based on a wild, wildly…

Radio France Internationale · Sep 25, 2022

An essay of war, madness and addiction by photojournalist Eugene Richards

The work of award-winning American photographer Eugene Richards was recently the subject of a retrospective at the international photojournalism festival, Visa Pour l'Image. The 78-year-old has documented poverty in the US, photographed drug addicts, patients in psychiatric hospitals, Iraq war veterans. His exhibition is called "An Outsider".

ABC News · Sep 17, 2022

Guam, America's forgotten speck of an island in the Pacific, is the new front line against China

As China flexes its air strength at Taiwan and builds navy capacity at unprecedented speed, the United States is bolstering defences on its most important military outpost in the western Pacific: the tropical island of Guam.

The Conversation · Sep 15, 2022

MAS*H, 50 years on: the anti-war sitcom was a product of its time, yet its themes are timeless

MASH, stylised as M*A*S*H, is the story of a rag-tag bunch of medical misfits of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital thrown together against the horrors of the Korean war in the 1950s. The series endured for 11 seasons, from September 1972 to the final episode in 1983.

Tribune News Service · Aug 31, 2022

Editorial: Proposed Anne Arundel flag ban a sign of our intolerant times

Outside the Arundel Center, the headquarters of Anne Arundel County government in Annapolis, a POW-MIA flag proudly flies. If the county adopts Bill 74-22, it will have to be taken down. The flag honoring those still missing and unaccounted for from the Vietnam War would also be banned from any…

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