Geography Archives: Vietnam

The 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam got under way in Hanoi on January 25, 2021

China cherishes Hanoi’s nay to ‘Quad’

The 13th national congress of Vietnam’s ruling communist party, which began in Hanoi on Monday is an event of exceptional significance for the country’s internal politics and future trajectory of development, regional politics and the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific.

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Vietnam without deaths from COVID-19 in over three months

Prensa Latina

Vietnam’s death toll from COVID-19 has stood at 35 since last September, and none of those hospitalized due to this disease risks death, the Ministry of Health reported on Sunday.

Wikimedia Commons File: Vietnamese registered for rapid testing (COVID-19) (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

The key to Viet Nam’s successful COVID-19 response

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There were less than 400 cases of infection across the country during that period, most of them imported, and zero deaths, a remarkable accomplishment considering the country’s population of 96 million people and the fact that it shares a 1,450 km land border with China.

Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban doctors continues to gain supporters

Medical workers of conviction: Speaking to Cuban doctors who heal the world

Vijay Prashad

The United States government has continued attacking Cuban medical internationalism right up to the current pandemic, making wild allegations against the program that disparage the medical workers.

Problem with what’s taught in school || Spoken Word

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Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

With the U.S. failing and China taking a leadership role in the international response to this crisis, could the COVID-19 crisis mark a turning point in the transition to a multipolar world in which China will be just as important as a world leader as the United States?

A little help from their friends: How Vietnam withstood largest bombing campaign in human history

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Between 1965 the 1975, the United States Air Force dropped over three times more bombs on the Southeast Asian nations of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia than the total tonnage dropped by the Allies during World War II.

Le Thi Mit at her home in Cam Nghia, in Quang Tri Province.

Victims left behind in U.S. Agent Orange cleanup efforts

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Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation–and many live in desperate poverty.

Lawyer brings pieces of history back to Vietnam

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American lawyer Nancy Hollander recently handed 450 documents, photographs and other memorabilia concerning the first meeting between the Vietnamese Women’s Union and the U.S. Women Strike for Peace Organisation in Jakarta in 1965, to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum.

“Hell No!’—Stokely Carmichael twenty years on

Ron Augustin

Within a timeframe of hardly four years, Stokely Carmichael’s organizational efforts evolved from the mobilization of black voters in Alabama and Mississippi to building a large movement resisting the military draft at the height of the Vietnam war, culminating in the SNCC’s “Hell No! We Won’t Go!” campaign.

A Marine receives medical treatment in Vietnam

A true spat-upon soldier story

W.D. Ehrhart

The long-awaited The Vietnam War documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick has arrived. It is powerful and moving, disturbing, enlightening, and challenging. But it is not without its omissions and distortions.

How Employers Limit Worker Rights, Using the Power of Government and Market Forces

Michael E. Tigar

The escalating attack on worker rights in the United States has taken several forms in recent years. In some American states, right-wing politicians have passed laws denying public employees such as teachers, janitors, police, and firefighters the right to organize into unions and bargain collectively. Some of these laws strip recognition and power from existing […]

Job Loss, the Clintons, NAFTA, and a New Progressive Labor Rights Agenda

Michael E. Tigar

Today’s post discusses the way that neoliberal policies embraced by the Democratic Party resulted in job loss in key states. Bear with me: there are facts and figures here that make the case. Tomorrow, I will continue to discuss these issues in the context of “domestic” job displacement. The third post will discuss a progressive […]

The Lawyers’ Job Now — History and Strategy

Michael E. Tigar

Donald Trump and his allies have announced their agenda. It includes torture, denial of basic human rights, military action that violates the laws of war, racial injustice, misogyny, and xenophobia. What role and responsibility do we have? I am a lawyer, teacher, and writer. So I speak to those in my profession and those preparing […]

Are Sanders and Fair Trade a Threat to the Global Poor?

David L. Wilson

On April 24, 2013, some 1,134 people died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex outside Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The building housed factories where low-wage workers, largely women, stitched garments for the U.S. and European markets. For several years before the disaster a number of U.S. opinion makers — notably New York […]

For a “Third Reconstruction”: An Interview with Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

As the 2016 electoral game here ratchets up to nasty polemics, the US media is mainly focused on the carnival atmosphere of the Republican Party candidates. (The Democratic Party infighting is only now beginning to boil over.) Meanwhile, the Obama administration, free from scrutiny, continues its airstrikes in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, and […]

First Woman President Nukes Iran

Susie Day

WASHINGTON — President Hillary Clinton, making good on her 2008 threat to “totally obliterate” Iran, celebrated her first week in office by ordering a nuclear strike on Iran’s capital city of Tehran. As a squadron of F-35s streaked through the sky toward the Mideast metropolis of over eight million, President Clinton outlined her foreign policy […]

Marta Harnecker on New Paths Toward 21st Century Socialism

Richard Fidler

Introduction by Richard Fidler Among the many panels and plenaries at the Conference of the Society for Socialist Studies, which met in Ottawa June 2-5, was a Book Launch for Marta Harnecker’s latest English-language book, A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-First Century Socialism (translated by Federico Fuentes), Monthly Review Press. The featured speaker […]

The Writing Is on the Wall: Join Veterans For Peace’s Memorial Day Letter-Writing Campaign

Doug Rawlings

The Pentagon is intent upon taking control of how we remember the American War in Vietnam. Their myth-making has already begun and will continue for a decade of fifty-year commemorations. Some of us are not going to stand by and let this happen. We are fighting back. We in Veterans For Peace are taking our […]

A History of a Counter-Revolution

Jay Moore

Gerald Horne. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. NYU Press, 2014. In the conventional, celebratory liberal historical narrative about the Founding Fathers, the post-revolutionary persistence of slavery in the United States, along with women’s lack of essential political and legal rights, has long been regarded as […]

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