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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 103–116.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Davorn Sisavath Abstract This article complicates and challenges the existing records on US-Lao relations during the Second Indochina War by examining military waste in Laos as an archive. Over two million tons of bombs were dropped during US bombing in Laos from 1964 to 1973. Today, Laos remains...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 211–212.
Published: 01 October 1995
... of California, Santa Barbara. Her most recent book is Hrnong Means Free: Life in Laos and America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994). Greg Grandin, a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at Yale University, recently returned from a year of research in Guatemala as a fellow...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2019
... in the archives documenting the “secret war” in Laos compelled her to find new methods of interpreting this history, including studying the waste of war. War waste like unexploded ordnance and bomb casings litters the land of Laos, the most heavily bombed country per capita in the world, providing evidence...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 183–194.
Published: 01 October 1994
... Nixon is remembered still as the man who ended the war, instead of, correctly, as the man who prolonged the war, who re-escalated the war, who widened it to Cambodia and to Laos, and who renewed the bombing of North Vietnam. But take a look at the newspapers now and see if you can infer that he...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 137–141.
Published: 01 October 1994
... for unleashing the most unspeakable atrocities that US.military might inflicted on the civilian population of Vietnam and, to a lesser extent, Cambodia and Laos. History reveals the Nixon Presidency as imposing mili- tary policies that brought utter devastation to a small agrarian coun- try. He...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 50–63.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the president’s book. 21 The sticking point was the fact that Ireland had not yet recognized Laos, which compelled the minister to say “no . . . [as] The Secy [ sic ] feels that it would embarrass the visitors if the President recd [ sic ] them in the circumstances of our non-recognition.” 22...
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Radical History Review (1986) 1986 (36): 115–132.
Published: 01 October 1986
.... For example, in the fourth program, ”LBJ Goes to War,” footage of a speech by President Johnson making an emotional plea for greater support for the war is intercut with footage of a U.S. search-and-destroy operation. In the ninth pro- gram, ”Cambodia and Laos,” the camera cuts from an American...
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Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 11–18.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and facilitate covert and guerrilla operations.. .. Secret, costly, worldwide, unlimited. NSC 5412 legitimized covert operations in Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Laos, ”the Congo,” Cuba, Grenada, Nicaragua, etc. To ”strengthen the orientation toward the U.S all operations were to be executed so...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 151–162.
Published: 01 October 1994
... years, with the con- sequent loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. He secretly invaded a neutral country (Cambodia), conducted 27,000 bombing sorties, and failed to consult Congress. He widened the war to drop 3 mil- lion tons of bombs on Laos, a small nation of three million people...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 22–31.
Published: 01 December 1984
... social groups or socially representative individuals whose interests and values conflict. The Immigrants provides an epigrammatic explanation of Fast's current attitude to the question of power when it ends with lines from Lao Tzu: And he who does not desire to be ahead...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 77–105.
Published: 01 October 2022
... poscolonial” ; Curiel, La nación heterosexual . 60. Lozano, “Feminismo negro-afrocolombiano,” 44 . 61. Vergara-Figueroa and Arboleda, “Feminismo afrodiaspórico,” 113 . 62. Laó-Montes, Contrapunteos diaspóricos , 55 . 63. De la Fuente and Andrews, Estudios...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (31): 42–70.
Published: 01 December 1984
... of a party or individual directly or indirectly responsive" to communism in a free-world country. Elections in Italy, West Germany, Greece, France. To "develop underground resistance and guerilla operations." Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Iran, Guatemala, Cuba...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (110): 83–108.
Published: 01 May 2011
..., the period Benedict Anderson and Ruchira Mendiones call Thailand’s “American Era,” the U.S. govern- ment invested approximately $2.2 billion of economic and military aid to consolidate Thailand’s antidemocratic police state.46 The rise of leftist anticolonial movements in Laos and Vietnam as well...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 253–264.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Sithavaday, an eighteen-year-old whose family had fled Laos in 1979, found himself in Somalia, a member of the Tenth Mountain Division’s second battalion, Eighty-Seventh Infantry. Interviewed by his local newspaper, Sithavaday, without...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 1–14.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and 1956 as the first prime minister of independent India, but also a range of representatives of anti-colonial movements from present-day Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Laos, Myanmar, Sudan, and Egypt, among others. Shonk adapts Jean-François Bayart’s notion of “postcolonial extraversion...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 117–130.
Published: 01 January 2009
... – 24; and Agustín Lao-Montes, “Decolonial Moves: Trans-locating African Diaspora Spaces,” Cultural Studies 21 (2007): 309 – 38. 45. Hanchard, “Racial Consciousness and Afro-Diasporic Experiences.” 46. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo,The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 173–190.
Published: 01 May 2006
...-three Asian nations — Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and Yemen — and six African nations — Egypt, Ethiopia, the Gold...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 87–109.
Published: 01 October 1995
... as the need to demonstrate credibility ele- vated peripheral areas as Laos and Vietnam to important interests. Because a loss to communism anywhere would endanger the free world, deterrence theory presumed that the defending power had high interests at stake in the confrontation. The concept...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 7–36.
Published: 01 May 1991
... to their deaths while he searched for ”peace with honor.” And the war is not even over. Killing continues in Cam- bodia, where the U.S. and China support the rebellion led by the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos are still isolated and embargoed by U.S. diplomacy. The war’s veterans have...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 39–70.
Published: 01 May 1991
... has reflected on the extent to which the Vietnam-American War violated norms of proper behavior, went against general human values, and violated American legislation and civilian norms. Until an American president can speak about these and the fait accompli Americans, Vietnamese, Lao...