{"article":{"id":224501,"heading":"VIDEO: Vietnam, the Last Battle by John Pilger","author":"John Pilger","created":"2009-02-08 21:14:14","modified":"2009-02-09 14:44:07","last_modified":"Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:44:07","article":"

to watch John Pilger's 51-minute video, visit

http:\/\/www.milkandcookies.com\/link\/147199\/detail\/<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":""The history has been rewritten by Hollywood by combining Rambo and self-pity. Fables have become by default our popular history. "We like our truth simple and distorted." True prosperity will not come by turning Vietnam into an industrial sweatshop."","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2009\/02\/224501.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":224511,"heading":"The book -JFK","article":"In his book, JFK, Flecher Prouty details the beginning of the Vietnam war when the CIA, under Dulles, began to turn the screws on this American, anti-Japanese 'friend'.\r\nHow we pushed over a million Catholic Vietemese into the south to destabilise the government, threw out the Franch banking system and ruined their export rice market.\r\nAnd that was just the beginning.\r\nResult:\r\nover a million Vietmanese dead and over 58,000 of my boithers and sisters in arms now are names engraved in a dark wall...\r\nIt caused the devaluation of our currency to a fiat paper money without any backing and the road to our present bankruptcy.\r\nWall Street made out like a bandit. Profits were high and the price paid is still being felt.","author":"Thank the CIA","parent_id":224501,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2009-02-09 14:44:07","modified":"2009-02-09 14:44:07","fileurl":""}]}