My Lai

American Exceptionalism Is Un-American

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Fein

The boast of American exceptionalism betrays ignorance of the Founding Fathers and the tarnished history of the United States. In any event, to overlook faults because other nations are more flawed is juvenile, and leads nowhere.

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War Crimes Then and Now

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, General Stanley McChrystal, Civilian Casualties, My Lai, Iraq, Afghanistan, World News
Phyllis Bennis

WAR CRIMES THEN AND NOW by Phyllis Bennis 13 April 2010 In an earlier era, in an earlier war, the recent exposés from Iraq and Afghanistan - with t...

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PBS Documentary Relives one of America's Lowest Moments

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Byron Williams

On Monday, PBS will air a program about one of the dark moments in U.S. history -- the massacre at My Lai. My Lai has the infamous distinction of being the most brutal atrocity of the Vietnam War. It is a tragedy on multiple fronts.

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Part Exposé, Part Cover-Up: 1968's My Lai Massacre Photos Have Big Lessons For Citizen Journalists

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: My Lai, Evelyn Theiss, Citizen Journalism, War Wire, War, Ron Haeberle, Civilian Casualties, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seymour Hersh, Veterans, War Crimes, Soldiers, Army, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Ohio, Ronald Haeberle, Media News, U.S. Army, William Calley, Citizen Journalists, Media News
David Quigg

Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.

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My Lai and Lockerbie Reconsidered

Nick Turse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lockerbie, Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie Bomber, My Lai, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, World News
Nick Turse

A week ago, two convicted mass murderers leaped back into public consciousness as news coverage of their stories briefly intersected. One was freed from prison, the other expressed his contrition.

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William Calley Apologizes For My Lai Massacre

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer | Dick McMichael | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Calley, the former Army lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly apologized for the fi...

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America's Willing Torturers

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln, Waterboarding, American History, Torture, My Lai, Philip Zimbardo, Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

We stand justified in asking our leaders to hold America to a higher standard -- to probe the decisions and decision-makers who led us to that darkened cell with its waterboards and bug boxes.

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Oliver Stone On Upcoming My Lai Movie: "Why Now? Because Of Iraq"

Time | Kay Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 15 years since Heaven & Earth, why another Vietnam movie? Why now? Why now? Because of Iraq. That's a major reason. I had no intention of makin...

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Oliver Stone Visits Vietnam To Research Film On My Lai Massacre

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hollywood director Oliver Stone arrived in Vietnam to research his next film about the Vietnam War, which will focus on the My Lai massacre, local med...

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