NBC News: “While Trump obtained deferments to avoid Vietnam, Buttigieg signed up for military service when his generation went to war in Afghanistan. He comes from a small Midwestern city rather than the Big Apple. And perhaps most important...
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This edited article by Gia Linh Vũ is from Loa, a news website and podcast of Viet Tan that broadcasts stories about Vietnam. It is republished by Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement
Situated in the center of Cambodia...
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Since the summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and President Trump in Vietnam ended without a deal, North Korea has urged South Korea to distance itself from the United States.
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This week marked the 16th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, an illegal war of aggression that was also the most purely idiotic foreign policy blunder in American history. The Vietnam debacle may have been bloodier, but at least the "domino theory"...
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In an indignant rant, former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) railed against President Donald Trump for calling soldiers “suckers” for going to Vietnam when Trump managed to avoid it. Kerrey was a SEAL officer in the U.S. Navy during Vietnam and...
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Guest LMAO by David Middleton Climate Change Is This Generation’s Vietnam War It’s an existential threat to millennials—and older Americans are standing in the way of action. By MATT FORD March 14, 2019 Every year, the world’s elite...
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough took to Twitter to say AR-15s are “far deadlier” than the M-16s and “more lethal” than the M-14s used in the Vietnam War. In making his case, Scarborough pointed to how the AR platform was...
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The Smith & Wesson Model 39 semi-automatic handgun served U.S. Navy SEALs during the Vietnam War and then went on to become one of the American nine-millimeter high capacity pistols, the Model 59.
The Odyssey of the Smith...
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As more and more wounded service members came home from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2006, Steve Peth knew he had to do something to help.
A Vietnam veteran, the newly retired Peth had the time to give back. Able to drive in from his home near Quantico,...
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On Sunday, CNN host Ana Cabrera slammed President Donald Trump‘s lack of military service.
Cabrera starting by playing a clip of acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney claiming Trump was not a white supremacist.
“That defense...
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Washington Post: “Days before President Trump was set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, a mysterious incident in Spain threatened to derail the entire high-stakes nuclear summit. In broad daylight, masked assailants infiltrated...
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Every year, the world’s elite gather like the Illuminati in the Swiss chalet town of Davos for the World Economic Forum, where they discuss how to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Often that results in comically out-of-touch...
Tran Duc Anh Son has argued that Vietnam should take a tougher line against China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, a sensitive matter for the government.
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Hackaday is hosting a meetup in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Sunday, March 24th. We’d love to see you there!
Sean Boyce lives in HCMC — you’ve likely enjoyed several of his articles detailing some of the culture, like keeping track...
Vietnam called on Malaysia on Tuesday to free a Vietnamese woman accused in the 2017 murder of the North Korean leader's half brother, a day after a Malaysian court dropped a similar charge against an Indonesian woman.
Vietnam's Foreign Minister...
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MONDAY, March 11, 2019 -- A toxic byproduct of Agent Orange is still widespread in Vietnam's soil and water and is getting into food supplies, a new study claims.
Agent Orange was a chemical defoliant widely used by the U.S. military during the...
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A capsized Vietnamese fishing boat that Hanoi says was hit by a Chinese vessel in contested waters is the latest in what scholars call a string of often unreported maritime mishaps between the two sides despite official efforts to get along.
The...
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Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.(Image credit: Beth Novey/NPR)
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Vietnam can’t seem to get a break. The country lies just beneath China, its giant neighbor to the north, and shares many of the same socialist ideals that Beijing promulgates. However, Sino-Vietnamese...
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