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Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91 (John Rogers/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4

Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son says Arnett died in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer. He was 91. Arnett’s reporting on the Vietnam War for The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1966. He is likely best remembered, however, for his gripping live reports of the 1991 U.S.-led…

Rest well.
https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4

Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son says Arnett died in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer. He was 91. Arnett’s reporting on the Vietnam War for The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1966. He is likely best remembered, however, for his gripping live reports of the 1991 U.S.-led…

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died (John Rogers/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p148#a251217p148

Historically, it makes sense that absurdism is the logical reaction to a climate of oppression and hostility. Dada and Bauhaus for WW I, the "theatre of the absurd" (Esslin) for WW II, or anti-Vietnam war happenings in the 60s.
Somewhat surprisingly, it seems that this role of absurdist relief has today fallen to Tim Robinson and his sketch comedy show "I think you should leave", and the online community around it.
The protagonists change from sketch to sketch…

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Russia, Vietnam concealing arms deals via joint energy profits to evade US sanctions, AP reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/russia-vietnam-concealing-arms-deals.html

"A reporter once asked A.J. Muste -- a social activist who, during the Vietnam War, stood outside the White House night after night -- 'Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?'
"'Oh,' Muste replied, 'I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.'
"When I am willing to cross the line of how much I think I c…

To my eyes, this is an act of war by the US upon the nation of Venezuela. (Not to mention the blurring of GPS and the sinking of boats by the US.)
If indeed a state of war now exists (to borrow a phrase from FDR's speech to Congress after Pearl Harbor) then Venezuela could be anticipated to wage war against the US - endangering US people (including tourists) everywhere in the world.
El Cheato and Whiskey Pete are getting the US in Vietnam Part II.
"Trump says airs…

If you're an AI slop whiner, keep scrolling... otherwise set phasers to "Hair Metal" cuz we all love the smell of dilithium in the morning.
▶️ NeuralDerp: Star Trek Vietnam War - Beam Me up Fast, Captain | AI Star Trek Parody
https://youtu.be/4XafRDXqh4U?si=mEsd4k1RWAtbNo…

Among the women and immigrants who won: Kaohly Her, Laos-born ethnic Hmong immigrant elected mayor of St. Paul.
Many Hmong moved to Minnesota after the Vietnam war.

Ein wohnungsloses Känguru in Berlin? Hmm, das hatten wir doch schon mal. Ist es gar kommunistisch und war in Vietnam?
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/tiere/huepft-jakob-augsteins-kaenguru-durch-berlin-110710888.html

Hüpft Jakob Augsteins Känguru durch Berlin?
In der Hauptstadt ist ein Känguru ausgebüxt – angeblich aus dem Hause von Jakob Augstein. Nun muss es sich wohl mit dem Berliner Wohnungsmarkt rumschlagen.

Robert Reich, the former labor secretary, wrote recently that
“the great sleeping giant of America is awakening”,
just as it did after the Communist witch-hunt era in the 1950s
or during the Vietnam war protests
or during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
On those occasions, the listing ship eventually was righted.
Reich says he knows the signs of that awakening and sees it happening now.
As evidence, he cites the recent massive protests,
the…

wonderful & useful scholarly chapter on the 1967 levitation & exorcism of the pentagon by the fugs, allen ginsberg, abbie hoffman, kenneth anger, & co., very coincidentally 58 years ago today, taking it seriously historically/ritualistically/poetically. https://gwern.net/doc/history/2011-lay