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VA Approves 212 Ship Incidents for Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange Conditions Affecting Vietnam Veterans

An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

(SAN DIEGO) - An estimated 60-80,000 Vietnam Veterans may be involved in the 212 “Brown Water” Ship & Units Incidents.

US Dioxin Cleanup Politically Driven

The freeing up of US dollars for Da Nang may be less encompassed by altruistic motives, and more by self-serving tendencies...

(DA NANG, Viet Nam) - For over three decades, the US has claimed that no proof exists proving Agent Orange is the cause of significant health complications in Vietnamese citizens who may have been exposed to the herbicide.

Vietnamese scientists, shortly after the cessation of hostilities between the two countries in 1975, described an increase in human birth defects...

The Terrible Legacy of Agent Orange

Forty years after war ended, Washington begins decontamination of worst-affected areas in Vietnam

(DA NANG, Viet Nam AOAG) - Tran Thi Hoan, 26, studied medicine only to be told that she couldn’t become a doctor because of a war fought 20 years before she was born.

The ostensible reason was that she had no legs or left hand, but the main reason, and the cause of so much misery blighting the lives of millions of other Vietnamese, is the 20 million gallons of Agent Orange sprayed in her country by US forces in the Sixties.

Steinbeck`s Dispatches from Vietnam

"They make me sick with envy. They ride their vehicles the way a man controls a fine, well-trained quarter horse - Steinbeck referring to Huey helicopter pilots with the 10th Cavalry.

(WASHINGTON DC Air & Space Mag) - In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson asked John Steinbeck to visit South Vietnam and report to him personally on U.S. operations. (The Steinbeck’s were frequent visitors to the White House.)

Steinbeck was reluctant to go to Vietnam on behalf of the president, but when the Long Island daily Newsday suggested that he travel throughout Southeast Asia as a roving reporter, he accepted.

Remnant of War: Vietnam, 37 Years Later

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
US civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 – 1968)

(DA NANG, Viet Nam AOAG) - It’s been 37 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The war was senseless. War is wrong. No question. As a veteran, I can attest to its nonsensical virtues.

One ongoing legacy of that war, Agent Orange, continues to destroy the lives of millions of Vietnamese.

US Project to Clean up Dioxin Contamination in Danang

US project to clean up dioxin contamination in Danang.

(DA NANG, Viet Nam VietNamNet Bridge) - Two US companies have won two contracts as part of the Environmental Remediation of Dioxin Contamination at Danang Airport project.

It is a joint venture between the US and Vietnamese Government.

Vietnamese Agent Orange Dioxin Victims Today

We're hosting a 'Rebuild The Nation' event at Thong Nhat Park, in Hanoi, to raise $50,000 for a new safe-house in Hue city where suffer most of Dioxin in the war.

(HANOI, Viet Nam) - I am writing you on the behalf of the Agent Orange War’s Victims, a non-profit organization that spreads awareness about the victims of Dioxin in Vietnam war.

At the Agent Orange War’s victims organization, we provide victims of Dioxin and abuse with support groups, counseling and safe-houses/school across the country.

Dow Chemical - Tower Hamlets Mayor Statement

The Vietnam war memorial is 492 feet long. If a similar memorial had been made for the Vietnamese who died, it would be nine miles long.

(LONDON) - Len Aldis, the internationally respected Agent Orange Activist and Chair of the Tower Hamlets CND has released the attached letter from the Mayor of Tower Hamlets regarding the London Olympics.

Len has been instrumental in organising worldwide condemnation of Dow Chemical involvement with the London games.

History is the Enemy as `Brilliant` Psy-Ops Become the News

“the US has dumped a quantity of toxic chemical amounting to six pounds per head of population, including women and children” - 1970, US Senate report

(SYDNEY) - From Agent Orange in South Vietnam to Obama’s drone attacks in Afghanistan and war in Syria, Washington spins its assaults on the world as it cynically lives up to a reputation for casual slaughter.

Support Surges for Agent Orange Fight

Thirty-seven years after the end of the Vietnam war, children are still being born with severe disabilities arising from US use of Agent Orange.

(WESTMINSTER, UK) - A broad campaign to aid severely suffering Vietnamese victims of US defoliant Agent Orange went into a higher gear today with surging support at Westminster.