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POINT OF VIEW
AND THINGS
richard lightner
Jan 24, 20231 min read
George Herring
George Herring, author of America’s Longest War: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, passed away in November 2022. His book is a...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 2023113 min read
THE FRENCH WAR
The problem as DeGaulle saw it was the indecision on the part of the French government in Paris. DeGaulle looked at the decline of the...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Why people turn to communism.
“There would have been no Communist China today if that country had not been a landless peasant society drained by absentee landlords,...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
JAZZ
Writing in 1963, Ronald McKie expresses his love of “Negro Jazz, not just because of its wonderful human virtuosity, but because it is...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
THE CHINESE INVENTED EVERYTHING
The Genius of China: 3000 years of science, discovery, and invention by Robert Temple with an introduction by Joseph Needham. This book...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
INTRODUCTION
Following World War II peoples who had been ruled by the European powers for up to 500 years demanded their independence. When it was...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 202312 min read
GENEVA
Exhausted by the Indochina War the French stated that their contribution to the defense of Europe would be lacking if the war didn’t end....
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Threats to Democracy
Americans violently quarreled between capitalism and Socialism before World War I broke out in Europe in 1914. Ernest Freeberg wrote an...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Government Critics of the Vietnam War
Death of Thomas Hughes He was one of the Best and the Brightest of the Kennedy Johnson Administrations but expertly criticized US support...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 202311 min read
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. His point of view and things is Marxist although he himself is not a Marxist and...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
MYTHS IN HISTORY
One of the great myths of world history is that between 1815 and 1914 the world was at peace. However, there were many wars with Europe...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 202361 min read
RESISTANCE TO THE FRENCH
NATIONALISM - FRANCE France conquered Vietnam through colonial wars from 1858 to 1883. Vietnamese nationalists “never accepted the names...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Henry Kissinger
Robert K. Brigham, professor of History at Vassar College and a specialist in American Diplomatic History including the Vietnam War,...
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richard lightner
Jan 23, 20231 min read
REAGANISM AS FASCISM
Thom Hartmann recently published his latest in his series, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: how Reaganism gutted America and how to...
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richard lightner
Nov 12, 20221 min read
First World War
The film The Great War and the 20th Century recounts Lord Grey just before the war began as saying, I am afraid that the lamps in Europe...
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richard lightner
Oct 21, 20221 min read
Nationalism - China
Sino-Vietnamese relations are two thousand years old. Some of the history is considered myth but nonetheless celebrated by the...
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richard lightner
Oct 17, 20221 min read
Women Correspondents Vietnam War
Elizabeth Becker. You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. 2021 The three women are Catherine LeRoy, ubiquitous...
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richard lightner
Apr 6, 202219 min read
Jane Mayer
STRANGE JUSTICE JANE MAYER AND JILL ABRAMSON There’s a whole lot more on the Republican smear effort against Hill. I am trying to...
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richard lightner
Apr 4, 20221 min read
Interesting Reads
Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter. Imperial Brain Trust: the Council on Foreign Relations & United States Foreign Policy. 1977. These...
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richard lightner
Mar 5, 202266 min read
Viet Nam War Basics
The lion share of the books I use for this post were written no later than 1975. I want to show what people knew during the wars in Viet...
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