Vietnam China:Vietnam Rejects Chinese Protest Over Island Claim.

­The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry has rejected a protest lodged by China to the Vietnamese ambassador over a new maritime law adopted by the Vietnamese National Assembly. The law reasserts Vietnam’s claim over the Spratly and Paracel islands in the South China Sea. Both countries claim the territories and station garrisons on the islands. A number of skirmishes have taken place between the two countries. Vietnam and China have traditionally been seen as adversaries, despite having very similar political systems that combines Communist party rule and the free market. The countries fought a bloody war over control of Kampuchea in 1979.

http://on.rt.com/npydeg

Vietnam War - The Impact Of Media Propaganda

Uploaded by HistoryArchive on 27 May 2007

Vietnam War - "The Impact of Media" explores in detail the 'media distortions' due to television's misrepresentations during the Vietnam War. It rebuts the view promoted by PBS 's 13-part documentary series, "Vietnam: A Television History". The rebuttal also applies to "The Ten Thousand Day War" series.

"The Impact of Media" is a must-see for historians and politicians alike. The late president Ronald Reagan lauded this rebuttal video when he watched it and said that it's "something all Americans should see".

Made in 1984.

Vietnam:Video - The Quite Mutiny.

1970. In his iconic documentary debut 'The Quiet Mutiny', John Pilger reports from the front line in Vietnam where he finds disillusioned American troops in open rebellion against the war.

http://www.johnpilger.com/videos/vietnam-the-quiet-mutiny

Vietnam:Hanoi opens 3 sites for war dead search as Panetta visits Vietnam

The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three new sites for excavation by the US to search for troop remains. The announcement came during a meeting in Hanoi between US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vietnam Defense Minister Phuong Quang Thanh. They exchanged artifacts collected during the Vietnam War, including letters written by a US soldier who was killed, and a diary belonging to a Vietnamese soldier, AP reports. This is the first time such a joint exchange of war artifacts has occurred.

Source: RT News.

Crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them

Vietnam: Obama Uses Myths About Vietnam To Silence Ant-War Protests Today.

It's a myth that Americans spit on soldiers returning from Vietnam. So why did President Obama tacitly endorse it?

June 3, 2012  |  

http://www.alternet.org/story/155701/obama_uses_myths_about_vietnam_to_silence_anti-war_protest_today?akid=8877.1070654.hc09Cq&rd=1&t=24

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