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Court says South Korea responsible for Vietnam War massacre

A South Korean court has ordered the government to pay $24,000 to a Vietnamese woman who survived a gunshot wound but lost several relatives when South Korean marines rampaged through her village during the Vietnam War in 1968

The Independent UK

South Korea court rules in favour of Vietnam War massacre victim

Nguyen Thi Thanh was eight when she was shot in the stomach by South Korean marines who massacred some 70 civilians.

Al Jazeera

South Korea court orders first compensation for Vietnam war victim

A South Korean court ordered the government on Tuesday to compensate a Vietnamese victim of atrocities during the Vietnam War in the 1970s, when about 300,000 South Korean troops fought alongside U.S. forces.

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COUNTERPOINT: In the mind of the beholder

America has always had a complicated relationship with the truth. From the Vietnam War to the Iraq War, from swiftboating to birtherism to “alternative facts,” and, of course, the whitewashed versions of history being taught in our schools, truth is in the mind of the beholder.

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Podcast: Pension reform fury, employment after 55, Paris Peace Accords

A majority of French people disapprove of the government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64-years-old. Women could come off worse than men, and it will involve addressing senior employment, which France does not do particularly well. And how the Paris Peace Accords, marking a temporary end…

Radio France Internationale

Over 17,000 weapons surrendered in first year of Australian firearms amnesty

Retrieved weapons include a Vietnam war-era flamethrower, sawn-off shotguns, rifles, gel blasters and revolvers

The Guardian - AU

Superannuation: good for some, but sucks the life out of others

It’s a ‘boondoggle’ and ‘the biggest con foisted on Australians since the Vietnam War’, say Crikey readers. And yet… it’s been the saviour of others.

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Vietnam war: how US involvement has influenced foreign policy decisions over 50 years

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the US withdrawal from Vietnam and the war still casts long shadows over American life.

The Conversation

Is there a 'right to disobey’? From the Vietnam War to today's climate protests

One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labour government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their beliefs. Their crime had been refusal to comply with the National Service Act, a so-called “lottery of death” that sent some 15,300 young Australians to fight in…

The Conversation

Caro still working away on fifth LBJ book, no pub date set

The good news on Robert Caro’s very long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words

The Independent UK

Police solve murder of 89-year-old woman in 1994 after ingenious DNA breakthrough

The authorities exhumed the Vietnam veteran’s remains in August this year and tests confirmed that his DNA was a match for the semen found on Lillian DeCloe's nightgown

Daily Mirror

Letter: Wilko Johnson obituary

Brian Bennison writes: the guitarist was a somewhat unorthodox chair of the Newcastle University Socialist Society

The Guardian - UK

Can your school tell you what to wear?

For years, courts have debated self expression and gender expression in schools

Salon

Theatre group pulls play from Sheffield venue staging Miss Saigon

New Earth Theatre said ‘damaging tropes, misogyny and racism’ in show contradict its values

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Newcastle Herald

One deadly, humid day that changed Australia's Vietnam War

The bloody Battle of Long Tan continues to resonate.

The Conversation

How much can public schools control what students wear?

School dress codes can be harmful to LGBTQ students and students of color, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. These codes can lead school officials to punish these two groups for simply who they are or for expressing themselves.

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Chiefs to wear commemorative patch for Salute to Service game during Week 10

The #Chiefs are wearing a commemorative patch in Week 10, honoring Derrick Thomas' father and others who served in Operation Linebacker in the Vietnam War.

The Guardian - UK

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure books were my introduction to horror’

The Booker-winning author on Vietnam war stories and the brutality of Jane Austen

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What is affirmative action, anyway? 4 essential reads

Race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions could soon be a thing of the past. At least that’s the impression many observers got after listening to oral arguments about the practice before the U.S Supreme Court.

The Conversation

Conservative US Supreme Court reconsidering affirmative action, leaving the use of race in college admissions on the brink of extinction

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action.

The Guardian - US

Trump 2024 campaign seeks to recruit man who smeared John Kerry – reports

Ex-president eyeing Chris LaCivita, whose 2004 ‘Swift Boat’ campaign questioned Kerry’s Vietnam war record

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak wields the axe as he sacks a string of cabinet ministers

“Who am I? Why am I here?“ As self-deprecating opening lines go, this one backfired. The year is 1992, the debate stage is set, and Admiral James Stockdale – a Vietnam War hero and vice presidential running mate of Ross Perot – has just introduced himself to the American people.…

Chicago Sun-Times

Marine vet Ald. Villegas urges city to reinstate Veterans Affairs Office

The office was disbanded in 2019, but the need remains for former U.S. service members who need help with homelessness, joblessness, substance abuse and other issues, the 36th Ward alderperson said.

The Independent UK

Putin has lost more troops in Ukraine than US did in whole of Vietnam war – report

Ukraine says more than 65,000 Russian soldiers killed in war so far, around 7,000 more than US fatalities in Vietnam conflict spanning 20 years

Foreign Affairs

What Nixon’s Endgame Reveals About Putin’s

Russia’s war in Ukraine could end like the Vietnam War.

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