Category Archives: History

Audio: Tet Offensive – The Whole World Is Watching (KPFA)

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THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING- Pacifica reporter Dale Minor covering the Tet offensive and fighting in Vietnam. RETROSPECTIVE BROADCAST: KPFA, March 1979….

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Audio: IF Stone On Vietnam 1965

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American ground troops had been in Vietnam for only a couple of months, but they represented a significant escalation in the history of the war. Listen to IF Stone’s speech at the Vietnam Teach-in, Berkeley, California on May 21, 1965….

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The Binh Xuyen: Order and Opium in Saigon

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In 1950 the CIA’s Colonel Lansdale reported that:

“The Binh Xuyen were participating in one of the world’s major arteries of the dope traffic, helping move the prize opium crops out of Laos and South China. The profits were so huge that Bao Dai’s tiny cut was ample to keep him in yachts, villas, and other comforts in France.”More>>

Jesse Holman Jones (1874-1956)

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Under President Franklin Roosevelt the RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) provided the financial underpinning of the New Deal. Jesse Jones was the brains behind the operation. As head of the RFC he was the most powerful fiscal officer since Alexander Hamilton….More>>