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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (c. 1954–1975) was a conflict between the divided halves of Vietnam, the communist North Vietnamese and the non-communist South Vietnam. With the Soviet Union and China supporting the North, and the South aligning with the United States and the West, the war quickly became part of the larger ongoing Cold War.
However, by the mid-1960s the U.S. military’s role in the conflict had evolved from merely an advisory/assistance one to active combat; by the end of the decade, over 500,000 U.S. military personnel were stationed in South Vietnam. Yet the war proved to be unpopular, and af ...more
However, by the mid-1960s the U.S. military’s role in the conflict had evolved from merely an advisory/assistance one to active combat; by the end of the decade, over 500,000 U.S. military personnel were stationed in South Vietnam. Yet the war proved to be unpopular, and af ...more
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Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims. Country music was not necessarily lynching music, but no other music could be imagined as lynching’s accompaniment. Beethoven’s Ninth was the opus for Nazis, concentration camp commanders, and possibly President Truman as he contemplated atomizing Hiroshima, class
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― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
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The U.S. imperialists supply armaments to their henchmen to massacre the Indochinese peoples. They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Their pornographic culture depraves the youth in areas placed under their control. They follow the policy of buying up, deluding and dividing our people. They strive to turn some bad elements into U.S. agents that they use for the conquest of our country.
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― Against US Aggression For National Salvation
― Against US Aggression For National Salvation
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