#My Lai massacre

[joshualunacreations]

We often talk about how white supremacy uses the Model Minority Myth as a wedge, but rarely talk about how Black Americans adopt racism and jingoism against Asians domestically and abroad. (Please don’t repost or edit my art. Reblogs are always appreciated.)

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#anti asian racism #anti asian violence #anti asian hate crimes #Vietnam war #My Lai massacre #white supremacy #legacy admissions #affirmative action #bipoc #jingoism #legal system #restorative justice #artists on tumblr #my art #comic #filam artist #josh luna #joshua luna

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

#platoon #film #1986 #oliver stone #vietnam #vietnam war #1967 #1971 #academy awards #berlin international film festival #berlin #1998 #american film institute #AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies #2019 #national film registry #library of congress #united states #My Lai massacre #William Calley #friendly fire #Napalm #apocalypse now #the deer hunter #midnight express #Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay #francis ford coppola #luzon #philippines #ferdinand marcos

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

          When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. Citing a source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning," Hersh writes on his Substack blog that planning for the mission began in December of 2021. The White House and the Norwegian government have since denied the claims. Hersh joins us for an in-depth interview to discuss his report and says the U.S. decision to bomb the pipelines was meant to lock allies into support for Ukraine at a time when some were wavering. "The fear was Europe would walk away from the war," he says. Hersh won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. His reporting on CIA spying on antiwar activists during the Vietnam War era helped lead to the formation of the Church Committee, which led to major reforms of the intelligence community, and in 2004, he exposed the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.

#Democracy now #Seymour hersh #nordstream 2 #russia #germany #usa #norway #ecological terror #Abu Ghraib #Pulitzer Price #My Lai Massacre

[gotohellfuckingyankees]

#Vietnam #My Lai Massacre #war criminals #GOP

[americanjews]

#My Lai Massacre #Vietnam

[antinatofinland]

#war crimes #my lai massacre

[doctorbuzzard]

Good Bye is too so Very Hard to do

Sometime we just have to let go, but I’ve never have been very good at surrender. If anyone who ever had such a gal, you know how they get under you skin, next thing you know, you’re taking out the trash, putting a polish and an extra coat of paint on the fence. Who knows good lord some call it love. I’ve had my share of beauties and maybe one too many at times, so I figured I’d seen the worst…

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#Charlie Company #My Lai massacre #Seymour Hersh #Vietnam

[shamballalin]

Making America Racist Again

Making America Racist Again

The following is from my husband, John Hourihan, a state, regional and national award-winning newspaper columnist. In eight years, John has won 14 awards, for New England Newspaper Association (NENA), New England Associated Press News Executive Association (NEAPNEA), National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC), several awards in New England Newspaper and Press Association, (NEN&PA). In 2008,…

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#American dream #Baltimore Catechism #Baltimore Catechism A Year of Confirmation #Baltimore Catechism Clean Slate #Baltimore Catechism Mass of the Faithful #baseball #Catholic #Catholicism #coaching #frisbee #God #greed #John Hourihan #laws #My Lai massacre #Play Fair And Win #rules #rules of baseball #Sacrament of Reconciliation #sacraments #teaching baseball #The Mustard Seed #The Mustard Seed 2095 #The Mustard Seed 2110 #The Mustard Seed 2130 #the Pueblo #United States

[pookiecowpoke]

Anyone else a little loot goblin or just me?

[those first few Colter missions, I have to loot all the bodies for my sanity and Dutch always screams at me to get a move on :')]

#everytime I massacre them O'Driscolls I need their pocket change #i have 7000 bucks but they are just laying there all dead #me and Seamus are best buds because I visit him so much #my art #rdr2 #arthur morgan #red dead redemption 2 #traditional art #rdr2 fanart #cowboys #red dead redemption arthur #dutch van der linde #my doodles #loot goblins #colter #rdr2 memes

[naviculariis]

Character Arc

romance/friendship

you started this story a little hard, or awkward, or stubborn. that's okay. it's harder than it should be to admit, but what you really want is love. that's what your story is all about - not just the act of loving, but the allowance of it. the confession that you do not want to fight or bleed or save the world, but to simply feel the way two hands fit so easily together. you will have two chairs and a table and you will shut your blinds, and you will say the word love without faltering. this is a happy ending, and you do not need to feel guilty. it hurts our hands to fight - never to hold.

Tagged by: no one lmao I am but a thief.

Tagging: @gxdmade @chatcambrioleur @ikkaku-of-heart @a-musing-mixologist [ kid??? ] & anyone else who wants to do this teehee

#𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖊𝖉 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖘 & 𝖂𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖘: [ Massacre Soldier Killer ] #[ oh. oh my god. oh my god i need. to lay down and cry over this. hold on. hold tf on- ]

[aiiaiiiyo]

#Hugh Thompson #the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire #1968. #Evoalcolm #oldschool

[prettyboyscollection]

im way better in sexual situations because my tits and pussy and cute obedience make up for my dead eyed autism stare and lack of social skills and habit of infodumping about autopsies and gory horror films at a moments notice

#z.txt #once got distracted during sex with my ex gf because we were watching a movie and they did something wrong in an autopsy #and i was like ‘hey they didn’t show that correctly!’ and started rambling about it #while i had three fingers in the poor girl #maybe that’s why she cheated on me lmao #imagine you’re laying with me in the afterglow after some fun sex and i start talking about the politics in the texas chain saw massacre. #maybe that’s why i don’t hook up irl…….. #‘the sex was great but now we need to talk about the oil crisis in the 70s and how the plot of tcm hinges on it’

[news4dzhozhar]

#they only call themselves prolife because anti choice is too spot on #they only care about white fetuses #i mean lets be honest #they arent fooling anyone #15000 children in 6 months #where is the humanity? #apartheid #save palestine #ethnic cleansing #israel is an apartheid state #seek truth #free palestine 🇵🇸 #genocide #illegal occupation #israel is committing genocide #israeli war crimes #this was NEVER about Hamas #never again means never again for ANYONE! #never again is NOW! #stolen lives #stolen futures #entire bloodlines wiped out #the US is complicit in genocide war crimes and the starvation of countless innocent Palestinians #the IOF make the my lai massacre look like a picnic #pro life #what a farce #feminist frauds #I thought you said ALL lives matter #the hypocrisy of the religious right #do as i say not as i do

[gotohellfuckingyankees]

#war criminals #vietnam #My Lai Massacre #Iraq

[could8963]

#at ang Nord Stream One ay nagsu-supply ng murang gas ng Russia sa Germany at sa kalakhang bahagi ng Kanlurang Europa sa loob ng higit sa #na ang gas ng Russia ay nag-iisa ng higit sa 50 porsyento ng taunang pag-import ng gas ng Germany #at ang pag-asa ng rehiyon ng Europa sa gas ng Russia ay naging nakikita ng Estados Unidos at ng mga kasosyo nitong anti-Russian NATO bilang #Kaya #noong Disyembre 2021 #pagkatapos ng higit sa siyam na buwan ng mga lihim na talakayan sa kanyang pambansang koponan sa seguridad #nagpasya si Biden na isabotahe ang pipeline ng Nord Stream #kung saan ang mga deep-sea divers mula sa US Navy's Diving and Salvage Center ay nagsasagawa ng planong palihim na itanim ang bomba. Sa ila #ang mga deep-sea divers ng US ay nagtanim ng walong C-4 explosives sa pipeline na maaaring malayuang pasabugin #at noong Setyembre ng parehong taon #sa oras para sa simula. ng taglamig sa Europa #isang sasakyang pang-dagat ng Norwegian ang naghulog ng sonar buoy upang pasabugin ang mga pampasabog at sirain ang “Nord Stream”. #Sino si Seymour Hersh? #Si Seymour Hersh ay isang American investigative journalist at political writer #isa sa mga nangungunang investigative reporter ng bansa. Sa American press #si Hersh ay isang taong hindi natatakot sa mga makapangyarihang tao at masigasig na lumaban sa kanila. #Noong 1969 #kinilala siya sa paglalantad sa My Lai massacre at pagtatakip nito noong Vietnam War #kung saan nanalo siya ng 1970 Pulitzer Prize para sa internasyonal na pag-uulat. noong 1970s #gumawa si Hersh ng isang splash nang mag-ulat siya tungkol sa iskandalo ng Watergate #isang iskandalo sa pulitika sa Estados Unidos #sa The New York Times. Pinakatanyag #siya ang unang naglantad sa mga panloob na gawain ng lihim na pagsubaybay ng CIA sa mga organisasyon ng lipunang sibil. Bilang karagdagan #iniulat niya ang mga iskandalo sa pulitika ng US tulad ng lihim na pambobomba ng US sa Cambodia #ang iskandalo ng pang-aabuso ng bilanggo ng militar ng US sa Iraq #at ang pagkakalantad ng paggamit ng US ng mga biyolohikal at kemikal na armas. #Sa American press #si Hersh ay isang malaking No. 1 #na may maraming mga mapagkukunan sa White House #at hindi kailanman huminto sa pagsisiwalat ng mga iskandalo sa pulitika ng Amerika. Kahit na ang kanyang hindi kilalang mga mapagkukunan ay

[qupritsuvwix]

Never forget.

#lt. calley #my lai #lies and the lying liars who tell them #richard nixon #massacre #vietnam war