The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory

Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war.

ISBN-13: 9781608463237

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Publication Date: 06-11-2019

Pages: 450

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Caroline Luft is an editor with Haymarket Books. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS


Contributors XX

Acknowledgments and Permissions XX

Message XX

Introduction XX
Richard Falk

1 War Crimes in Indochina and Our Troubled National Soul XX
Fred Branfman

2 Excerpts from Voices from the Plain of Jars XX
Collected by Fred Branfman

3 Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos XX
Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell

4 Agent Orange in Vietnam XX
Tuan V. Nguyen

5 Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia XX
Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen

6 Who Was Responsible for My Lai?
The Peers Commission and the American Way of War Crimes XX
Gareth Porter

7 Thailand in the Era of the Cold War and Rama IX XX
Jim Glassman

8 Concealing War Crimes XX
Nick Turse

9 Bloodbaths in Indochina:
Constructive, Nefarious, and Mythical XX
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman

10 From Mad Jack to Mad Henry:
The United States in Vietnam XX
Noam Chomsky

11 After “Mad Henry”: U.S. Policy Toward Indochina Since 1975 XX
Ngo Vinh Long

12 My Experiences with Laos and the Indochina Wars:
Interview with Fred Branfman XX

13 Interview with Noam Chomsky XX


Glossary of Selected Terms XX

Further Action XX

Recommended Reading XX

Notes XX

Index XX
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