Damn. #TIL that the #UnitedStates forced #Vietnam to repay money taken out by the #SouthVietnam government during the War as a condition for normalizing relations in the 90s.
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i have posted like 1.5-2 years ago that #Ukraine should not have trusted the support coming from the #USA, because the US always, inevitably betray their allies, since after the #Korea war. #SouthVietnam, #SaddamHussein, #Georgia, #SyrianKurds, #Afghanistan . Embarking in a war with #Russia based on US support was crazy. Ukraine should have waited patiently under #Yanukovic for Russia to be weaker. Half a million people would still be alive now. Now the US are out and 25% of territory will go.
2012
> .. we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-World War II period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries devastated, with casualties still mounting from the long-term effects of drenching #SouthVietnam with some of the most lethal carcinogens known, undertaken to destroy ground cover and food crops.
https://tomdispatch.com/noam-chomsky-hegemony-and-its-dilemmas/
#KennedyOnVietnam #JFK #RethinkingCamelot
10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government
The US has long facilitated regime change to support its own strategic and business interests.
By: Becky Little
Published: June 7, 2022
"Throughout its history, the United States has used its military and covert operations to overthrow or prop up foreign governments in the name of preserving U.S. strategic and #business interests.
"U.S. intervention in foreign governments began with attacks on and displacement of sovereign #TribalNations in North America. In the 1890s, this type of imperialist activity, fueled by the idea of #ManifestDestiny, expanded overseas when the U.S. overthrew the #HawaiianKingdom and annexed its islands. As America annexed more overseas territories for its empire, it began to intervene frequently in other countries’ governments—particularly those in its backyard.
"'During the early 20th century, the United States intervened relentlessly in the #Caribbean Basin,' says Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of Overthrow: America’s Century of #RegimeChange from Hawaii to Iraq.
"After World War II, the United States began using the newly established Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow governments all over the world in a more covert manner. U.S. leaders rationalized many of these interventions as necessary for preventing the spread of #communism according to the #ColdWar domino theory. Similarly, 21st-century leaders would later defend U.S. #MiddleEast interventions as necessary for fighting terrorism.'"
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HISTORY · 10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government
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✧ An attempted coup took place ✧
An attempted coup took place on September 13, 1964, in South Vietnam against the ruling military junta, led by Nguyễn Khánh (pictured). In the preceding month, Khánh had tried to improve his leadership by declaring a state of emergency, provoking protests and riots. He made concessions to the pr...
#SouthVietnam #NguyễnKhánh #Khánh #VietnamWar #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1964_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt
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#Transcription of my #speech for #deaf folks - as it wasn't provided on vid.
Hi, everyone. Thank you for showing up with #community #solidarity, to call for a #PermanentCeasefire in support of #Palestinians who are suffering #famine & #genocidal violence under #Israeli occupational forces.
My name is Que & I'm a survivor of the #USinvasion #WarOnVietnam. I was a #WarChild conceived & born under active shelling & had #IntergenerationalTrauma pre & post birth.
We were #displaced from our homes & survived in a #RefugeeCamp in Indonesia for a year. We were sponsored to come to Canada in late 1979 as #WarRefugees, seeking #asylum.
My patriarch family lived in #Cholon the #Chinese District in #Saigon & my matriarch family lived in a tiny village near Can Tho near the Hau River in #SouthVietnam. Both sides of my family had already lived through multiple foreign invasions & foreign militarized imperialism & colonialism by the time the US invaded & occupied our lands.
Many of us living Vietnam war civilian survivors can relate so well to the many struggles, the suffering, the violent foreign occupation & also the passionate resilience & resistance of the Palestinian peoples.
Throughout the 1960s into the 1970s both areas that my family lived in were carpet bombed. My Matriarch family village was bombed out of existence by 1970. The rebuilding took 18 years. Cholon was #CarpetBombed twice & the scenes from those aftermaths are eerily similar to the scenes from #Gaza after #Israel carpet bombed the area.
The #USmilitary used #Vietnamese #civilians as involuntary guinea pigs. They tested out never used before #WarMunitions including #biochemical warfare like #AgentOrange & #NerveGasBombs on our peoples.
Our peoples, our lands, our waters - still suffer the toxic & deadly effects from the illegal - illegal #biowarfare chemical uses by the #USA to this day & our peoples & especially our children are still suffering from the many leftover war munitions, exploding, maiming & killing innocent civilians.
Israel is treating the Palestinian peoples very much like the USA had treated our Vietnamese peoples. Like we are not human. We do not deserve to live. The dehumanization of Palestinians is too similar to how the USA dehumanized our Vietnamese peoples. We're savages. We are vermin. We're stupid tunnel rats. We're gooks & we deserve to die.
The USA bombed our #schools, our #hospitals, our #temples, our #ResidentialAreas - just like Israel has bombed schools, hospitals, temples & residential areas in Palestine. The USA has more powerful weapons of mass destruction while fighting resistance forces with much less firepower. The Vietnamese #ResistanceForces also used #TunnelSystems & some of them are now part of an #educational #LivingMuseum.
Vietnam is now #SovereignNation because the occupational militarized US forces left which opened up our path to #DiplomaticNegotiations. Palestinians deserve their true path to diplomatic Solutions too. They deserve a sovereign state. That can not happen without a permanent - not a temporary - a permanent ceasefire - an end to #IllegalOccupation by Israel.
You cannot occupy & oppress a people & claim you are a #democracy. True #Democratic states do not occupy & oppress people for decades. True Democratic states do not jail, murder & deny #PressFreedom to #journalists. True democratic states do not arrest, vilify, nor illegally detain their own citizens with dissenting voices. True democratic states don't continue to violate multiple #InternationalLaws so openly & so disrespectfully.
Israel has become too #arrogant that's mainly due to the Western powers like the USA & #Canada continuing to put their #WarProfiteer interests over #humanitarian & global #PublicInterests.
At a time when we need an arms embargo on Israel, the US & Canada sent billions more in war munitions & funding to Israel. It is shameful.
Our politicians tell us there's not enough money to fund more essential health & medical service needs. There's not enough money to increase the pay scale of essential medical staff. There's not enough money to fund environmental protection & cleanups. There's not enough to help our seniors & disabled not live in poverty anxiety. There's not enough to fund safer, more inclusive, accessible education. There's not enough to provide more low income & some more support of housing for our most marginalized citizens. These are all citizen needs that our governments have told they cannot afford to fully fund but they can find billions to fund ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. That is not okay & that is not in our public interest.
I urge everyone here to please keep contacting all of your local provincial & federal representatives in every way possible & ask them to please push Trudeau to call for both a permanent ceasefire & to initiate an arms embargo on Israel - NOW.
Please keep having the conversations with people you know & people you don't know about Palestine. The conversations are important. Please keep standing in solidarity with Gaza & all Palestinians.
The antidote to despair is action. This here is humanity in action & I thank all of you for showing your humanity & your ongoing support of Palestinians because remember, no democracy can exist without the freedom of citizens dissenting voices and I appreciate all of your voices dissenting, against our government who is still supporting genocide.
Free Palestine!
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✧ Vance Drummond ✧
Vance Drummond (1927–1967) was a New Zealand–born Australian pilot who fought in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Posted to No. 77 Squadron in Korea, he flew Gloster Meteor jet fighters and earned the US Air Medal for his combat skills. He was shot down in 1951 and imprisoned for almost two years. He was awarded t...
#AirForceCross #AirForce #AirMedal #DistinguishedFlyingCross #SouthVietnam #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Drummond
Freedom for #LeonardPeltier, Arrest of #BuddhistMonks and #Amazon Lead Issues at U.N. Permanent Forum on #Indigenous Issues
- "The government of Vietnam is hypo-critical of the Declaration on the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples and undermines the self-determination of Indigenous Peoples in the #Mekong Delta of #SouthVietnam"
- "Years ago, when the #Yanomami stood up against the gold miners, and were murdered"
- "#HumanRights defenders are constantly harassed when educating the community about human rights."
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, April 22, 2024
NEW YORK -- "'Leonard Peltier should come home and be with his great grandson and teach him songs, and what he has left of his life should be spent at home,' Nathan Phillips, Omaha, Deer Clan, told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York on Monday, as the second week of the session began.
"'Leonard Peltier stood up for the people,' Phillips said, and asked the UN Permanent Forum to write a letter to Coleman Prison and ask for a compassionate release for Peltier. Phillips said Peltier is sick and 79 years old, and has spent more than 40 years in prison.
"'They really don't know who committed the crime that he's in there for, and now his eyesight is really bad. He might die in there, and that would be death by incarceration,' Phillips said.
"'The FBI admitted that they didn't know who did that, so they should let him go,' he said, adding 'the FBIs didn't have no business up there."
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https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/freedom-for-leonard-peltier-and-arrest.html
bsnorrell.blogspot.comFreedom for Leonard Peltier, Arrest of Buddhist Monks and Amazon Lead Issues at U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous IssuesCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
If you look at the history of governments we have supported and leaders we have installed, the US threw most of them under the bus when the political winds shifted.
#kissinger #israel #HamidKarzai
#southvietnam
#panama #noriega #netanyahu
#whitephosphorus weaponised by the #militaryindustrialcomplex
Eg #Gaza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munitions
Photo: US Air Force Douglas A-1E #Skyraider dropping a 100-pound (45 kg) M47 white phosphorus bomb on a Viet Cong position in #SouthVietnam in 1966
en.wikipedia.orgWhite phosphorus munitions - Wikipedia
1963: #SouthVietnam
"The #PentagonPapers, chock full of damning revelations about America’s war in #Vietnam, caused a sensation when The New York Times published them in 1971. One revelation was that the CIA had funded and encouraged the 1963 #coup against, and #assassination of, the president of South Vietnam, #NgoDinhDiem.
"By 1963, the United States had sent thousands of U.S. soldiers to Vietnam to fight the northern communist government led by President #HoChiMinh. The U.S. initially supported Diem because he was fighting the north. However, Diem’s persecution of Buddhists made him an unpopular ruler, leading the Kennedy administration to doubt Diem’s ability to win the war. The coup and Diem’s assassination took place in early November 1963, just a few weeks before Kennedy’s assassination."
https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments
HISTORY · 10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government