CURRENT AREAS

• 50th anniversary of Viet Nam Victory poses a world-level challenge to US to admit the war was an imperial attack’ many in US appear to agree.

• Many replies to link show public interest in US false claims hiding real reason for the war.

• Agent Orange/dioxin/toxins children with birth defects

• Africa

• Voter Facts Commission

• Honor a Viet Nam vet by telling the truth

• Contact Brian D. Roesch at roeschbd@gmail.com

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• FOR THE US PUBLIC, a challenge has arisen from Viet Nam’s May 30, 2025 50th anniversary celebration parade, of Viet Nam’s victory over the US. The public can respond based on the 100 percent proof of a pre-1954 US business presence in Viet Nam,. This is explained in my Substack article May 7, 2025 (Click bold print to see) “Viet Nam Celebration Parade Places Worldwide Truth Question to US Public.” The challenge appeared when the main speaker at the parade said that Viet Nam and the US are in a Strategic Partnership, but also that the war was a US imperial invasion. US leaders have long denied that. So, it is time for the US public to step forward.

• As of May 7, 2025, 234 likes appear in the first 8 days of my reply to (click this link) YouTube video titled “Veterans Return to Vietnam 50 years after the fall of Saigon.” (See my 3rd comment.) These “Likes” indicate that some voters and/or students are piqued upon learning of the two false claims by US leaders that put the US public unwittingly into Viet Nam, and that since 1975 have continued business expansion, often by force. My reply gives easy access to the 1954 Geneva Accords on Indochina (Viet Nam). Search in your browser for Avalon Project, Indochina. Upon downloading the July 1954 Geneva Accords, you will see that Articles 1 and 14(a) show the Accords DID NOT create a “North Viet Nam.” Because most people in the US public falsely believe the US entered Viet Nam in 1954 to fight communism from a country called “North Viet Nam,” many falsely believe it was for a noble purpose. So, many also believe, falsely, that US foreign pollicy has continued to be noble over the decades into 2025.

  Into 2025, this system of business expansion, often by force, often kills & maims children as in Gaza, etc.

• Please click this link for my April 23, 2025 Substack article, “50th Anniversary of April 30 Viet Nam Victory for Sovereign Peace by Courage: Opportunity for US Public to Join in that Truth, & End US Leaders’ False Claims.”

  Please click this link for my April 18, 2025 Substack article “Viet Nam Prepares 50th Anniversary Celebration of April 30, 1975 Victory: In the US, new proof confirms it was a US colonial war,”

• What influence do you have in educational curriculum through high school? If students are taught the truth about why the US fought in Viet Nam, students can become knowledgeable voters. Please see Teachers page in this website.

• Inform other people that In 2021, an international symposium in Ha Noi showed the world that about 150,000 children in Viet Nam were living with birth defects from Agent Orange/dioxon/toxins the US sprayed during the US-Viet Nam War. (Agent Orange/dioxin page in this website) The Viet Nam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin (VAVA) informs this writer that the 150,000 is a best estimate, given the high death rate among these children. Thus, in 2025, Viet Nam has more than 100,000 children (this writer’s estimate) who have birth defects from those chemical sprays

• In 1959, the US government proved that dioxin, in some cases, killed or caused serious disease. But during 1961–1971, civilian leaders sprayed dioxin in far greater concentrations than allowed in the US for weed control. They did it in support of their attack that attempted to continue the 1865–1954 US business that was enabled by force. US leaders often assert that people must take responsibility for their actions. But US leaders have failed to inform voters about the victims and the reason for the spraying.

• Request establishment of a Voter Facts Commission to secure the facts and report to the public on instances in Africa, South and Central America, and the Middle East, where US business expansion by force is used. Report on , reactions of local people. Viet Nam veteran Oliver Stone pointed out in 2017:[1] “In the 13 wars we’ve started over the past 30 years. . . . call it what you will—the military-industrial-security-money-media complex—it’s a system that has been perpetuated under the guise that these are just wars . . . but in the name of that wealth, we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values, when we continue to create such war and chaos in the world. . . .”

• In Africa in 2024, the US was told to withdraw its military forces from Niger for giving military “security” to France as France took Niger uranium but paid only 1/250th of the value. Much of Niger lived in poverty. The US troop withdrawal was completed in August 2024. This shows the failed approach of US leaders. In Africa, US military actions have long been conducted without voter knowledge of basic facts and issues. Nick Turse reported in 2015 that “the United States has been developing a back-to-the-future military policy by making common cause with one of the continent’s former European colonial powers in a set of wars that seem to be spreading, not stanching violence and instability.”

  Turse added specifics:[3]

  • June saw members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team deployed to Niger, Uganda, Ghana, and on two separate missions to Malawi; in July, troops from the team traveled to Burundi, Mauritania, Niger, Uganda, and South Africa; August deployments included the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Niger, two missions in Malawi, and three to Uganda; September saw activities in Chad, Togo, Cameroon, Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Uganda, and Malawi; in October, members of the unit headed for Guinea and South Africa; November’s deployments consisted of Lesotho, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Guinea; while December’s schedule involved activities in South Sudan, Cameroon, and Uganda. All told, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division carried out 128 separate “activities” in twenty-eight African countries during all of 2013.

The road to such conflict in sub-Saharan Africa started with US leaders deciding in 1960 to overthrow democracy and deny fair trade with Africa’s newly independent Congo, the most mineral-rich nation on earth. Its democratically selected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba flew to the US and said that Western corporations could have a fair share of the mineral profits, but not virtually all the profits as had been done in colonialism. Congo children, he said, had a right to schools, and citizens had a right to a higher standard of living from their nation’s mineral wealth. US (white) leaders, and Belgium (white), decided that he needed to be killed to keep US and European control of the mineral wealth. Following Lumumba’s assassination, the CIA paid Joseph Mobutu who seized power and ruled for 30 years as a dictator.[4]

“The five years that followed Congo’s independence , , , provides eloquent testimony both about the responsibility of Western powers for Africa’s turmoil and about the troubled nature of African governance,” are facts of Africa as stated in The history of Congo. Post-colonial Africa is in a mess today, with widespread poverty, reports Professor Godfrey Mwakikagile, [5]

The failure to inform voters about Africa—even as US military involvement grows—not only flies in the face of the lesson of lies on Viet Nam, it also violates a bedrock principle of democracy spotlighted in 2004 by Walter Russell Mead, a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):[6]
And while American foreign policy is studied in great detail by professionals and scholars, it must ultimately
be debated and decided by tens of millions of voters.

Shut out from knowledgeable debate, the US public cannot see whether a common policy on war in Africa and in Viet Nam appears in a 1943 report for the State Department: [7]

to secure the limitation of any exercise of sovereignty by foreign nations that constitutes a threat
to the minimum world area essential for the security and economic prosperity of the United States and
the Western Hemisphere. [Italics added.]

The conclusion for all US voters is that on foreign policy, we have all been given a false premise. Republican, Democrat, or other, whatever you believe, your views have developed without knowing that the war in Viet Nam was to resume the pre-1900 US corporate operations in Viet Nam. Thus, US voters have never had a debate based on such knowledge related to resource control by force today.

Request your Congressional representatives to establish a cabinet-level Voter Facts Commission. A government of, by, and for the people would partner with voters, not hide the ball. This would allow the public to debate general policy: Should the US pursue resource control by force or fair trade by diplomacy?.

• Request your Congressional representatives to establish a cabinet-level Voter Facts Commission. A government of, by, and for the people would partner with voters, not hide the ball. This would allow the public to debate general policy: Should the US pursue resource control by force or fair trade by diplomacy?.

• Honor a Viet Nam veteran, while pointing out the truth: US leaders lied to them and the public and so some voters unwittingly support ongoing pursuit of US business expansion enabled by force. In Viet Nam, US soldiers were undercut by US civilian leaders not telling them that US corporations and government had operated there for decades, enabled by terror under the French invasion and subsequent US invasion. That pitted US soldiers against patriots who were fighting for their homes and country. Withholding that truth, US leaders escaped corrective action by voters. Foreign policy into 2021 has mirrored the resource control by force attempted in Viet Nam.

[1] Oliver Stone on war and chaos. WGA West (2017, Feb. 20). James Woods presents the 2017 Writers Guild Laurel Award for Screenwriting to Oliver Stone. Youtube, 9:50–12:20 of 12:25.

[2] France pay 1/250 for uranium, France in Niger, world’s 7th largest uranium producer, under- paid value of uranium The New Tourist (8 Sept, 2023). US in Niger, drone bases strategic location, intvw of Stephanie Savell of Brown Univ. Costs of War project. Democracy Now. (1 Aug, 2023). “Did Western Military Presence Help Foster Coup in Niger, Where U.S. Has Drone Base & 1,000+ Troops?” https://www.democracynow. org/2023/8/1/ Niger_coup US training locals to fight insurgencies, air operations from Niger for intelligence for France in other countries. Turse, N. (2015). Tomorrow's battlefield : US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa. Chicago, Illinois: Dispatch Books : Haymarket Books, Kindle Locations 402, 480, 1041 (blow-back). Mwakikagile, Post-colonial Africa, p. 453, Kindle location 6093. US military policy on Africa. Turse, Tomorrow’s Battlefield, Kindle location 1058.

[3] Silence on US failures on Africa. Turse, N. (2015). Tomorrow's battlefield : US proxy wars and secret ops in Africa. Chicago, Illinois: Dispatch Books : Haymarket Books, Kindle locations 1069 (silence on failures), 1368 (deployments), and 3459– 3759 (not full information).

[4] 1960 Congo coup; Lumumba for benefit children. Witte, L. (2001). The assassination of Lumumba. London; New York: Verso, pp. 5–6. Lumumba quotes, fatal mistake, US investments, Gottlieb poison. Colby, G. & Dennett, Charlotte (1995). Thy will be done : The conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the age of oil (1 st ed.). NY, NY: HarperCollins.Colby, pp. 325–28.

[5] Five years Congo after death of Lumumba. Gondola, C. (2002). The history of Congo. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, pp. 124–129..Rich nations and post-colonial Africa poor; mess today. Mwakikagile, G. (2019). Post-colonial Africa; A General Survey, Amazon Digital Services LLC, Chapters Two, Seven, Kindle locations 1155, 6078–6222, 6436, 9500.

[6] Voters ultimately decide. Mead, W. (2004). Power, Terror, Peace, and War : America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk. NY: Vintage Books. A Council on Foreign Relations Book; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p. 6, Kindle location 129.

[7] Limit sovereignty. Council on Foreign Relations report E-B19, “The War and United States Foreign Policy: Needs of Future United States Foreign Policy” (October 9, 1940). Quote on limitation of sovereignty. Chomsky, N. (Nov. 4, 2011). Changing Contours of Global Order, Professor Noam Chomsky, YouTube Video, Publ. by Deakin University (Nov. 11, 2011), 18:07–18:28, of 1:18:00.