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Tag: Kill Anything That Moves

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Whom Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —

On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system.

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 READ MORE

Kill Anything That Moves

By Chris Hedges —

Nick Turse’s book about the Vietnam War exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters.

Posted on Mar 12, 2013 READ MORE

Nick Turse and the Real Vietnam War

Nick Turse’s new book, “Kill Anything That Moves,” is a ghastly revelation of previously unreported war crimes committed in Vietnam in the wake of the My Lai Massacre. He tells Bill Moyers how 15 years ago a staffer at the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., pointed him toward the “horror trove” of accounts that led to the book.

Posted on Feb 15, 2013 READ MORE

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The Hagel Hearings

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —

As Chuck Hagel begins his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday, you can be sure that no senator will ask him about his presence during the machine-gunning of an orphanage in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta or the lessons he might have drawn from that incident.

Posted on Jan 31, 2013 READ MORE

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Truthdigger of the Week: Nick Turse

By Tracy Bloom —

The historian and author’s new book about the Vietnam War reveals for the first time, in painstaking detail, the full atrocities committed by American forces in that country.

Posted on Jan 19, 2013 READ MORE

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An Operation, Not an Aberration

Even as the My Lai massacre has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War have essentially vanished from popular memory, TomDispatch associate editor Nick Turse writes in “Kill Anything That Moves.”

Posted on Jan 18, 2013 READ MORE

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How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

By Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch —

In Kill Anything that Moves, Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam.