http://www.shss.montclair.edu/english/furr/Vietnam/vnlinks98.html

INTERESTING AND USEFUL LINKS

FOR

"The Vietnam War and American Culture", ENLT 275-01
Fall, 1997

PLEASE let me know of any interesting links related to the course that you feel should go here, and I will check them out and put them up.

Imperialism

Here are some good readings that will help you understand the concept of imperialism, how it works, and how important it is to understand it if you are to ever understand what's going on in the world!

• (11 Sep 96)"Imperialism 101", by Michael Parenti; Chapter One of his book Against Empire
• (11 Sep 96)"Imperial Domination", another chapter from the same book by Parenti.
• (11 Sep 96)"Hidden Holocaust U.S.A."; the consequences of imperialism in the US today. From Parenti's book Dirty Truths.

(Put up 3 Sep 96)
Here is a series of articles published August 18-20, 1996, in the San Jose Mercury, concerning the connection between the U.S. Government's war against Nicaragua during the 1980s and the "crack" cocaine epidemic in the US.
Go to:

• the first story here;
• to the second story here;
• and to the third and final story here.

The San Jose Mercury is a California newspaper that often runs feature articles about Asia and Southeast Asia, and on Vietnam specifically.

Indonesia

Here are a few links related to our discussion about "Nike in Indonesia", the search for cheap labor, and economic imperialism, or "neo-imperialism":

• "The Indonesian Massacre" by Joe Nunes; an analysis of the US Government's complicity in an anti-communist and anti-labor massacre by the Indonesian police state in 1965 and since.
• Article on the Indonesian conquest and massacre, with American assistance, in East Timor, also by Joe Nunes.
• An article on child labor, centering on Pakistan, from The Atlantic magazine of February, 1996, pp. 79-92:
• An interview with Ralph Nader, by David Barsamian (Use the "search" tool to find "Nike", if you like).
• The "Rosy Dawn" of Capitalism: An analysis of how capitalism works, and why there are class antagonisms over, for example, cheap labor, from a Marxist standpoint. Use th e search tool to find "cheap labor", and read around in it!

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