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According to the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, an executive of the Vietnamese administration, who had sought refuge in Germany, was kidnapped in Germany by the Slovakian Secret Services. They then handed him over to the authorities in Vietnam.
According to the German newspaper, Trinh Xuan Thanh was a former executive of the state company PetroVietnam charged by the authorities of his country of causing this entity losses escalating to 150 million dollars. He was (...)

General Vo Nguyen Giap passed way at 102 years of age.
He was despised by his Western counterparts because he had never attended a military school and because he was gay.
However, he successively defeated French and US imperialism, and liberated his country, Vietnam.
Opposed to Cambodia’s occupation by Vietnam, he was removed from the political leadership of his country in (...)
Shift in Russian-Chinese tectonic plates
Calling the China-Russia split by its right nameby
Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar

As China and Vietnam lurch increasingly towards crisis, Beijing is not amused at the Kremlin’s refusal to reciprocate over the United States’ "pivot" in the Asia-Pacific, especially since returns from its diplomatic support for Moscow’s embattled ally in Damascus are expected. The symbolism of Russia hosting the Vietnamese president and the Japanese foreign minister in quick succession in July was not lost on China either. Detecting a chill descending on Sino-Russian relations, Ambassador Bhadrakumar throws light on the situation.

The U.S. government has finally released the full Pentagon Papers describing how the American people were misled into the Vietnam War. The declassification comes four decades after most of the document was leaked by Pentagon insider Daniel Ellsberg, who today says similar deceptions are enabling wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. Vietnam veteran victims. However, as Agent Orange continues to take its toll, the United States is employing other chemical weapons against civilian populations in its war-driven agenda.
History
Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms by
Marta Rojas

On the occasion of commemorations for the 30th Anniversary of the liberation of Saigon, we publish a work on the life and work of the founder of Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh. By rejecting all compromises that led astray part of his own generation, Ho Chi Minh restlessly fought imperialism, either coming from Japan, France or the United States. He became one of the major symbols of independence struggle in the 20th century.
Vietnam 1967/ Iraq 2005
"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"by
Arthur Lepic, Jean-Sébastien Farez

While fully bombing the north of Vietnam in 1967, the U.S. was organizing elections so that part of the population in the occupied Southern Vietnam chose a president. Eleven years before, the U.S. had openly breached the Geneva Agreements by annulling the general elections held under international control that would undoubtedly have led Ho Chi Minh to power. Openly distorting UN resolution No. 1546 in 2004, Washington organized again an electoral campaign under the conditions of an occupation war, to try to make the world accept an illegal occupation. But this time, the majority of the leaders of the opinion took a bow in front of this “stage to democracy”.

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