You are here
Home > Posts tagged "Vietnam"

Tag: Vietnam

Dissident novelist Philip Kraske on “Legacy of Chains” (on US POWs left behind in Vietnam)

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Philip Kraske’s grippingly readable new novella A Legacy of Chains fleshes out an interesting and not-entirely-implausible scenario: A few surviving American POWs left behind in Vietnam, now senior citizens, manage to escape…but find an American government and media determined to suppress their story, and the “Enormous Crime” it reveals. Something not unlike the events in the story actually happened when Robert Garwood, one of the more than 600 US prisoners of war held hostage by the Vietnamese after the cessation of hostilities, managed to escape in 1979 to tell the tale…only to be betrayed by his own government…

FULL ARTICLE

Linh Dinh in Laos: White Immigrant Invasion Alert!

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE And read Linh’s new article (featuring material discussed in this interview) HERE. Some of my Veterans Today friends and colleagues (readers as well as editors) visited Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Their task: Spread death and degeneracy on behalf of Operation Apocalypse Now. Today, Westerners are still spreading death and degeneracy in Southeast Asia, but in a kinder and gentler way—at least if you consider drunken headbutting and corrupting the local women as kinder and gentler than bombing the sh*t out of the place and corrupting the local women. Anyone with eyes to see knows the West is…

FULL ARTICLE

Linh Dinh on “Corpses in Ocean”

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE I introduced Linh Dinh‘s ferocious, touching, painfully autobiographical essay “Corpses in Ocean” as follows: As my Vietnam veteran VT colleagues can attest, that atrociously bloody war seemed totally pointless at the time. (Almost as pointless as destroying the Middle East for Israel today.) But now, looking back with pride, we can reflect that had we not made such heroic efforts to save ‘Nam from the Godless commies, Linh Dinh would probably never have written in English. So, quoting Madeleine Albright, “we think the price was worth it.” In this interview Linh elaborates on “Corpses in Ocean”: “This last…

FULL ARTICLE

Linh Dinh on “Endless Culture War”

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Linh Dinh is one of America’s best writers. He is now living in Dak Lak, Vietnam, working as a foreman in his brother-in-law’s plastics recycling plant. Read about life in Dak Lak, among other things, in Linh’s new article “Endless Culture War.” How did Linh get unofficially expelled from the American literary scene? “It happened step by step. I didn’t support Obama live everybody else. I’m not a Democrat, not a Republican—I’m neither. So it started there. And then I’d talk about 9/11. And I wrote articles about the Bin Laden assassination. I thought it was nonsense. There…

FULL ARTICLE

Linh Dinh on “Genitalia as Social Constructs”: USA has gone crazy, Vietnam still somewhat sane

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Linh Dinh used to be one of America’s best up-and-coming writers. Now he is one of Vietnam’s best! Why would someone with Linh’s talent leave the USA? Doesn’t the brain drain usually flow the other way? In this interview Linh explains why he left, and expresses pity for those of us stuck in the belly of the American beast. Our discussion also touches on Linh’s provocative, politically-incorrect article “Genitalia as Social Constructs.”

FULL ARTICLE