Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : Barack Obama
Nick Turse on a scandal that killed 11,000. Plus: Bob Dreyfuss, Patricia Williams and Frances Fox Piven on the nascent Obama policy agenda.
2008
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The Vietnam Exposé That Wasn't
Nick Turse : History
The untold story of US-perpetrated atrocities in Vietnam and how the press killed it.
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A My Lai a Month
Nick Turse : History
In Operation Speedy Express, new evidence of civilian slaughter and cover-up in Vietnam.
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Questions of Loyalty
Matt Steinglass : History
Revisionist histories of the Vietnam War challenge the notion that the South Vietnam government was a dysfunctional pseudo-state.
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
Tom Hayden : Iraq War
One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
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The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam
Tom Hayden : Vietnam
Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?
2007
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The Nijinsky of Ambivalence
Morris Dickstein : Peace Activism
During a Vietnam War protest, Norman Mailer blustered and banged a generation's experience through his prodigious ego.
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Gracelands
The taint of an unjust war tarnishes the lives of Vietnam-era Americans in Denis Johnson's stunning new novel.
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The Best Wars of Their Lives
A historian plugs some suspicious gaps in two revisionist histories of Vietnam.
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Lessons From the Tonkin Gulf
Ernest Gruening : Nation History
From the Nation, the late senator and onetime editor of this magazine recalls his lonely stand against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, approved by Congress August 7, 1964, which paved the way for the Vietnam War.
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An American Tragedy
The Iraq War has replaced Vietnam as the emblem of America's worst impulses.
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Empire Fall
Christian Parenti : Journalists & Journalism
A biography of Bernard Fall examines the life of the man who laid the foundations for contemporary war reporting.
2006
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Bush's Vietnam Analogy
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model is his most ludicrous.
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The Great Black Hope
Gerald Early : Civil Rights Movement
Taylor Branch concludes his staggering trilogy of the civil rights era with At Canaan's Edge, a relentlessly detailed narrative of Martin Luther King's desperate struggle to save the movement.
2005
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Gene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy was a pure original, a great and good man, whose fundamental historical achievement was to be the standard-bearer for a moral and philosophical campaign against the Vietnam War.
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The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Robert Sherrill : Democratic Party
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passionate anti-Vietnam war campaign would change the course of the war.
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Tug of War
Andrew J. Bacevich : US Foreign Policy
The reality of America's role in the cold war was far more complex and ambiguous than historical accounts suggest.
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Our Loss Was Our Gain in Vietnam
Thirty years after the US retreat, Vietnam is a peaceful trading partner.
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Galbraith and Vietnam
Richard Parker : Public Figures & Intellectuals
An adviser who told Kennedy the truth.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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