Chuyên mục: US-VN Relationship – Quan hệ Việt Mỹ
Dấu hiệu gió Mỹ đổi chiều, những người chống VN hãy liệu
Báo TQ dọa rằng tham gia diễn tập RIMPAC, VN sẽ lộ bí mật
Why Vietnam loves Trump
It’s one of the only countries in the world where the president is popular. Will Trump return the love?
HANOI, Vietnam — Before every shift at a Domino’s Pizza store in central Hanoi, Van Nguyen Hai, 20, puts on a uniform in the colors of the American flag. Then she takes up her position behind the register, in front of a wall decorated with a collection of images that represents milestones in the history of Domino’s: the flag of Panama, where the chain’s 8,000th store opened in 2006; a steaming brownie, in honor of a dessert the chain introduced that same year; and the logo for “The Apprentice,” which held a Domino’s-related challenge in 2005, featuring a tie-clad Donald J. Trump. Tiếp tục đọc “Why Vietnam loves Trump”
Những vị tướng lãnh VNCH tự sát sau ngày 30/04/1975
Mình mới thấy clip này hôm nay, đăng vào đây cho ngày 30/4 vừa qua.
Nữ du kích Bảy Mô
TĐH: Tình cờ hôm nay mình mới biết câu chuyện của nữ du kích Bảy Mô trên mạng. Có lẽ nhiều bạn đã biết rồi. Mình vốn đã khâm phục các nữ chiến binh. Câu chuyện đậm tình người lại làm mình thêm cảm động. Thêm vào đó nữ anh hùng này sau khi ra khỏi quân đội thì về sống cực khổ ở Tây Ninh, quê vợ của mình. Và Củ Chi là huyện rìa của Sài Gòn, cách nhà mình không xa. Mọi địa danh đều rất quen thuộc. Cuốn sách “The Tunnel of Cu Chi” nhắc đến người nữ du kích này là một cuốn sách về Chiến tranh Việt Mỹ rất nổi tiếng ở Mỹ.
Câu chuyện này còn nói lên một điểm lịch sử và chiến lược quan trọng: Những chiến binh du kích ở Miền Nam, sinh ra, lớn lên và chiến đấu như là cuộc sống tự nhiên – đời cha chiến đấu chống Pháp, đời con chiến đấu chống Mỹ. Chẳng ai bắt vào lính, chẳng ai tuyển mộ, chẳng ai bắt làm gì cả. Lớn lên là tự động chiến đấu như hít thở. Đây chính là điều các chiến lược gia Mỹ và VNCH chẳng hề biết. Đi lính như một nghĩa vụ phải làm là một chuyện. Tự nhiên mà chiến đấu, là chiến binh mà không “đi lính”, là một chuyện khác — chiến đấu tự nhiên như hít thở của cuộc sống, đó là nguồn sức mạnh vượt trên cả phi thường, đứng trên phương diện chiến lược mà nói.
Dưới đây là một clip về câu chuyện Bảy Mô, một series 3 clips nói chuyện với Bảy Mô, một clip về các nữ du kích Củ Chi (bây giờ đã là bà nội bà ngoại), và một bài báo.
Nữ Anh Hùng VN Siêu Đẳng Có Tấm Lòng Bồ Tát Tha Mạng Cho Lính Mỹ Vì Họ Khóc Khoe Ảnh Vợ Con
The Vietnam War – Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam (Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, PBS 2017)
English with Vietnamese subtitle (10 episodes)
Tiếng Anh, phụ đề Việt ngữ (trọn bộ 10 tập)
* THE VIETNAM WAR – 1: Déjà Vu – Bóng ma quá khứ (1858-1961)
Tiếp tục đọc “The Vietnam War – Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam (Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, PBS 2017)”
Remembering Agent Orange this Earth Day
The legacy of Agent Orange/dioxin continues to impact our veterans and the Vietnamese. Since 1991, scientists at the United States Institute of Medicine have shown dioxin to be a risk factor in a growing number of illnesses and birth defects, and their research is corroborated by the work of Vietnamese scientists. Tiếp tục đọc “Remembering Agent Orange this Earth Day”
War-ravaged Vietnamese province receives $10 mil from Norway for mine clearance
Unexploded ordnance are found in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri. Photo by VnExpress/Quang Ha
The Norwegian People’s Aid has already helped remove 70,000 tons of unexploded ordnance from Quang Tri Province.
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri has received $10 million from a Norwegian organization to help clear unexploded ordnance.
The deal with Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) was signed on Wednesday and will sponsor a project expected to run until 2022, Vietnam News Agency reported.
Vietnam is one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world when it comes to explosives. Between 1945 and 1975, during two wars with French and American invaders, more than 15 million tons of explosives were dropped on Vietnam; four times higher than the amount unleashed during World War II.
Tiếp tục đọc “War-ravaged Vietnamese province receives $10 mil from Norway for mine clearance”
Rev. James Swarts: Remarks at Spring Action 2018
Rev. James Swarts, President of the Rochester chapter of Veterans For Peace, was a member of the VFP tour group which traveled Viet Nam for 18 days recently, with stops in Ha Noi, the former DMZ and Khe Sanh, Da Nang, My Lai (on the 50th anniversary of the massacre there), and Sai Gon.
Statements by Pres. Donald Trump and U.S. government (and British and French) officials to justify American military actions in Syria are painful reminders not only of lies we were told about Viet Nam a half century ago. We heard echoes of those same lies regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and many other places in the world that are now much worse off after our military actions — actions that were illegal, no matter how we try to parse the meanings of the documents and international agreements that we signed. Tiếp tục đọc “Rev. James Swarts: Remarks at Spring Action 2018”
Mỹ sẽ không dễ thay đổi được vị trí Nga ở Việt Nam
U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – The United States is seeking to send thousands of immigrants from Vietnam back to the communist-ruled country despite a bilateral agreement that should protect most from deportation, according to Washington’s former ambassador to Hanoi.
U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, speaks during a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam November 2, 2017. Picture taken November 2,2017. REUTERS/Kham
A “small number” of people protected by the agreement have already been sent back, the former ambassador, Ted Osius, told Reuters in an interview.
Osius said that many of the targeted immigrants were supporters of the now defunct U.S.-backed state of South Vietnam, and Hanoi would see them as destabilizing elements. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador”
US Institutions find fertile ground in Vietnam’s expanding higher education market
ejournals – Mark A. Ashwill
Mark A. Ashwill is director of the Institute of International EducationVietnam. Address: Institute of International Education (IIE), C9-Giang Vo, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, Vietnam. E-mail: mashwill@iievn.org. The longer version of the article (and Web-based resources) can be obtained by contacting the author.
Unscrupulous companies often make unsubstantiated and sometimes false claims about their products and tend to prefer uninformed consumers. Conversely, reputable ones provide accurate information and call on their customers to educate themselves about what they are selling—even encouraging them to engage in comparison shopping. In fact, one wellknown US discount clothing company has adopted this concept as its slogan: “An Educated Consumer Is Our Best Customer.” Tiếp tục đọc “US Institutions find fertile ground in Vietnam’s expanding higher education market”
Why American soldiers were on front lines of anti-Vietnam-war movement
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Ho Chi Minh City exhibition recalls how American GIs organised protests, published underground newspapers and served jail time in their efforts to bring peace to Southeast Asia
By Gary Jones
The stereotypical image of the Vietnam war veteran, returning to the United States after an arduous tour of duty, only to be spat upon and cursed as a murderer by sneering, long-haired peace protesters, is seared into the American psyche like a scar from a white-hot burst of napalm. The accepted belief is that weary veterans trudged home to be condemned, cold-shouldered, even physically assaulted – simply for doing their duty to their country. Tiếp tục đọc “Why American soldiers were on front lines of anti-Vietnam-war movement”
Re-education in Unliberated Vietnam: Loneliness, Suffering and Death
Re-education in Unliberated Vietnam: Loneliness, Suffering and Death – by Ginetta Sagan and Stephen Denney [1982]
Note: The following article was published in The Indochina Newsletter, a newsletter I edited at the time, October-November 1982. Much has changed in the 16 years since this article was written. So far as is known all of the former South Vietnam government officials and officers have been released from the re-education camps and many have been allowed to emigrate to the U.S. under a special program, called Humanitarian Operation. But many of former prisoners have experienced various problems resulting from their long term incarceration under difficult conditions. I hope this article might be of historical interest in understanding what these prisoners have experienced; and also in understanding conditions of imprisonment endured by those dissidents and others still detained in Vietnam. – Steve Denney [1998]
THE INDOCHINA NEWSLETTER
October-November 1982
Re-education in Unliberated Vietnam: Loneliness, Suffering and Death
by Ginetta Sagan and Stephen Denney
(Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a preliminary draft of a report that will be issued later this year on human rights in Vietnam. The report is prepared for the Aurora Foundation, of which Ginetta Sagan is the Executive Director. Mrs. Sagan is a well-known human rights activist who interviewed over 200 former prisoners from Vietnam in preparation for this report. Details of the interviews will be brought out in fuller detail when the report is issued.)
Ten years ago, demonstrations were held around the world to protest political repression and imprisonment in South Vietnam. Seven years ago, Communist forces completed their conquest of South Vietnam. In June of 1975, the new regime ordered hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to report to authorities for « re-education ». Many are still held in the camps today, but the world is mostly silent on their plight.
« Re-education » means different things to different people. To the Hanoi regime and its more vocal defenders abroad, re-education is seen as a very positive way to integrate the former enemy into the new society. It is, according to Communist leaders of Vietnam, an act of mercy, since those in the camps deserve the death penalty or life imprisonment.(1). The former prisoners, on the other hand, see re-education from quite a different perspective. Tiếp tục đọc “Re-education in Unliberated Vietnam: Loneliness, Suffering and Death”
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