Vietnam :Napalm Girl Photo From Vietnam War Turns 40 .

She will always be a victim without a name.

It only took a second for Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of America’s darkest eras.

But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. It’s the tale of a dying child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured in the chaos of war that would serve as both her savior and her curse on a journey to understand life’s plan for her.

“I really wanted to escape from that little girl,” says Kim Phuc, now 49. “But it seems to me that the picture didn’t let me go.”

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It was June 8, 1972, when Phuc heard the soldier’s scream: “We have to run out of this place! They will bomb here, and we will be dead!”

Seconds later, she saw the tails of yellow and purple smoke bombs curling around the Cao Dai temple where her family had sheltered for three days, as north and south Vietnamese forces fought for control of their village.

The little girl heard a roar overhead and twisted her neck to look up. As the South Vietnamese Skyraider plane grew fatter and louder, it swooped down toward her, dropping canisters like tumbling eggs flipping end over end.

“Ba-boom! Ba-boom!”
The ground rocked. Then the heat of a hundred furnaces exploded as orange flames spit in all directions.

Vietnam: Napalm White Phosphorus Bombing Runs

North Korea: says it will 'expand' nuclear program in face of U.S. 'hostility'

North Korea has said it will press on with its nuclear program as a response to what it described as hostility from the United States after an analysis of satellite images indicated increased activity at its nuclear test site.

"We had access to nuclear deterrence for self-defense because of the hostile policy of the U.S. to stifle the DPRK by force and we will expand and bolster it nonstop as long as this hostile policy goes on," an unidentified spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a report Tuesday by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

DPRK is short for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.

The top U.S. envoy for North Korea, Glyn Davies, warned Pyongyang on Monday that a possible third nuclear test would be "a serious miscalculation and mistake."....read more

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/23/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear/index.html

Vietnam : Winter Soldier - U.S. Atrocities Exposed In Vietnam.

Winter Soldier re-released three decades later

By Clare Hurley

26 September 2005

Winter Soldier, a documentary film by Winterfilm. First released in 1972, re-released by Milestone Films, 2005.

Thirty-four years after it was made, the controversial antiwar documentary Winter Soldier has achieved a limited theatrical release in cities across the United States this fall. When it was first completed in 1972, it was shown at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, in movie theaters in England and France, and on German television, but film distributors in the United States wouldn’t screen it.

It played for a week in a single New York theater and was given a one-time showing on New York City’s local public television station. Thereafter, it was consigned to obscurity, its revelations of extensive American war crimes in Vietnam effectively suppressed.

However, in light of the United States’ current occupation of Iraq, and the revelations of torture at Abu Ghraib, the film has gained renewed attention.

 Its relevance enhanced by current parallels, the questions the film raises continue to cause consternation both for supporters of American imperialism, and ironically for those promoting the film who advocate protest politics as the means to counter it. Still possessing the power of an unexploded grenade, it is likely that even this re-release will remain limited to the smaller art theaters.

The film was made in February 1971, when more than 125 veterans gathered in a motel in downtown Detroit for the Winter Soldier Investigation, a three-day informal hearing to testify to atrocities they committed and witnessed in their service tours in Vietnam.

The investigation was named in reference to lines written by colonial American pamphleteer Thomas Paine: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summertime soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman” (Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776-77). Considering themselves patriots in the sense that Paine described, these “winter” soldiers sought to end to the Vietnam War by exposing the atrocities it had engendered....read more


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/wint-s26.shtml

Vietnam: U.S.A. Chemical Warfare Policy In Vietnam.

Uploaded by journeymanpictures on 3 Apr 2008

March 2003
Vietnamese children are still suffering the horrific effects of Agent Orange.

A child stumbles aimlessly, covered in grotesque brown growths; the living legacy of America's chemical warfare policy in Vietnam. Between 1961 and 1971 the US Air Force sprayed 72 million litres of chemicals. Horrific pictures show the range and devastation US dioxins have caused in Vietnam.

Vietnam: U.S.A. Crimes Against Humanity.

Vietnam: U.S.A. Atrocities - Agent Orange

Uploaded by journeymanpictures on 21 Jan 2008

July 2004
The use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War means that for many the war never ended. They're still suffering the effects of chemical warfare.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures