Ron Kovic: From Vietnam’s Horror to a Lifelong Fight Against the Madness of War
Joshua Scheer Ron Kovic’s life is more than a story about Vietnam — it is a brutal indictment of the machinery of war itself. A young man raised on Hollywood…
Coretta Scott King: After MLK’s Murder, She Took the Mic and Took on the War
Posted By Joshua Scheer We’ve just published a piece on Coretta Scott King’s public opposition to the Vietnam War, drawing from a powerful series of speeches she delivered after the…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Opposition to War Part 3, Vietnam
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the third part of my exploration of how high school American History textbooks describe American wars and the opposition to them.…
Ron Kovic: “A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy”
Famed author’s excerpts from his Vietnam War trilogy’s just-published conclusion
Thank You for Dying for My Sins: For Nhất Chi Mai and Aaron Bushnell
By Erik Wennermark / Original to ScheerPost “There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost…
An Evening With Henry
The former U.S. Ambassador to Finland shared his first time meeting with Kissinger in The Nation magazine in 1971.
Norman Solomon: Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History
By Norman Solomon / Original to ScheerPost When Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week, he was leaving a country where U.S. warfare caused roughly 3.8 million Vietnamese deaths.…
Westmoreland Revisited
Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Chris Hedges Report: Remembering Staughton Lynd’s Life of Defiance
Alice Lynd and Luke Stewart recall the life of historian, lawyer, and activist Staughton Lynd, whose writings and speeches on the Vietnam War were recently published in a collection called…
Kissinger vs. ‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter “Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs.” —Henry Kissinger In 1970, before whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg…
From Beyond the Death of Beyond Vietnam
By David Swanson / World BEYOND War Remarks in New York City, May 21, 2023 About a year-and-a-half before I was born down in midtown, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Patrick Lawrence: The Origin of the Specious
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost “Why is our collective mood so sour? We are awash with material wealth, and technology provides us with unprecedented powers. But this veneer…
Missing Links in Textbook History: The Roots of the American War in Vietnam
Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
Jane Olson: Storytelling Exposes Humanity
Numbers and facts only tell half the story of some of the world’s most horrendous circumstances.