1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1969
   A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war – not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
   
2. After the Cataclysm
   Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1979
   
3. American Power and the New Mandarins
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1969
   
4. America’s War in Indochina
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1971
   There is no special reason for America’s intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called ‘free world,” and particularly to the power which dominates it.
5. Anthroplogy and the Machine
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1997
   The first Teach-In against the Vietnam war, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 1965, proved the ideal solution, an event that was at the same time an exercise in learning and a political protest. Its success was to spur a widespread series of similar events, bringing the anti-war message and the realities of U.S. "counter-insurgency" in Vietnam to other campuses. It was not entirely surprising that one of the most innovative and effective strategies for opposing U.S. crimes in Vietnam was initiated by anthropologists. In a discipline sensitive to the problems facing peasant populations due to colonialism and the spread of western market interests, it was particularly difficult to accept at face value the rhetoric of U.S. geopolitical posturing.
6. At War With Asia
   Essays on Indochina
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   
7. Behind The Lines - Hanoi
   December23 - January 7
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1967
   
8. Bureau of Public Secrets 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
9. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News-And Why
   The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996
   Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
10. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
11. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
12. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
13. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
14. Fragging
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
15. "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
16. Friends and the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Friends from across North America gathered at Pendle Hill in 1998 for an in-depth analysis of what the Vietnam War means—both for themselves and for the larger Quaker community. This is the compilation of their personal narratives and analyses.
17. I would like to dodge the draft-dodgers but
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
19. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
20. Long Way From Home
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
21. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
22. McNamara's Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
23. Memories
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
24. Modern Capitalism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
25. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
26. The New Refugees
    American Voices in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
27. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
28. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    
29. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
30. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
31. The Responsibility of Intellectuals 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
    It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
32. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    
33. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    
34. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    
35. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
    
36. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
    
37. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of ‘68 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
    
38. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
39. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
40. Vain Hopes, False Dreams
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    In a time in which hopes and dreams seemed to be fading from American society, Chomsky systematically explores the theory that the reason for JFK's assassination was his intention to withdraw from Vietnam.
41. Viet Peace will come with victory
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
42. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A national veterans' organization.
43. War Crimes in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
44. The War Is Over (song)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An anti-war song by Phil Ochs.
45. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    
46. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.

Experts on Vietnam War in the Sources Directory

1. NameBase Book Index