I. Consular Reports. II. Viet Nam III. Climate Change

1. Consular reports

   The US consular reports from Viet Nam are declassified. To ask for a copy of any consular item, readers may contact the US National Archives and provide citation information from below, along with any more specific information from any endnote in my book citing consul material. 

   Step 1. Four main citations exist for parts of the 252 microfilm reels:  

   United States Consulate (1957). Despatches from United States consuls in Saigon, 1889–1906. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Reel 1, Format one micro- film reel.

   United States. Department of State. (1971). Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of France, 1919–1929. (National Archives microfilm publications: M560). Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Reels 150–152. Format 162 microfilm reels.

   United States. National Archives Records Administration. (1986). Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of France, 1930– 1939. (National Archives microfilm publications: M). Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Reels 82–87, Format 89 microfilm reels

   Murphy, G., Hydrick, Blair, & United States. Department of State (1988). Confidential U.S. State Department central files, Indochina. 1955– 1959: Internal affairs, decimal numbers 751G, 751H, and 751J; 851G, 851H and 851J; and 951G, 951H, and 951J: and foreign affairs decimal numbers 651G, 651H, and 651J; and 611.51G, 611.51H, and 611.51J.

   Frederick. MD: University Publications of America, Reels 1, 14, and 18, Format 54 microfilm reels.

   Step 2. Specific citations for a certain report could also be added to the above citations. For example:

   For consul reports in the 1890s to Secretary of State John W. Foster (imperialist grandfather and teacher of two children, John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles), use the above citation of Despatches from United States consuls in Saigon, 1889–1906, and add the following specific citation: .

   Despatches from United States consuls in Saigon, 1886–1906, Reel 1: Frame 11, 32–37 August 13, 1892 through January 28, 1893.

   For a page reporting on a high death rate for road workers, use the above citation for 1919–1929, and add the following specific citation:

      Smith, L., Consul. to State Dept (1921, November 16). “Monthly Report on Commerce and Industries for November 1921.” Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairsofFrance, 1910 1929,851g.00/7,Microfilm:A9156,Reel150, Frame0015.

    

IL Ukraine and Eastern Europe  In 1991, the Soviet Union ended. But US leaders failed to provide information to the US public for debate and general guidance on the question: Should the US use diplomacy and economic ties with post-communist Russia rather than expand NATO?

 Africa    The US public has virtually zero knowledge of US foreign policy in Africa after the 1961 murder of Prime Minister Lumumba of the Congo. But the US military has trained coup leaders in a number of military coups in Africa in 2021–22.  In 2022, US and France are “effectively destabilizing the region” reports Assistant Professor Brittany Meché. 

 South America and Central America  Dozens of US-backed coups in the region instituted torture, dictatorships, and poverty. US corporations have profited.

 Middle East    “The mass of the population have never agreed that the wealth of the region should be drained to the West and local collaborators, rather than serving domestic needs,” Chomsky points out. In 2003, throughout the Middle East, almost 95 percent dismissed the idea that the US is committed to more democracy in the Arab or Muslim world.    

 III. Climate change worldwide  The US has led the world in squandering 4 years of what a 2018 IPCC report says are 12 remaining years for drastic action to curb global warming. US adults today who fail to act to curb climate change are at lower risk than the children of today, who face an increasing risk that global warming will kill them early.

THE HARVARD GAZETTE: SCIENCE Exxon disputed climate findings for years. Its scientists knew better.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-analysis-finds-exxonmobil-internal-research-accurately-predicted-climate-change/

IV. US Southern border and border wall.

As the following paragrach from Wikipedia shows, causes of refugess streaming to the border include (1) US economic domination that has harmed economies in Central America, and (2) US failure to take appropriate emergency action to help curb climate change:

“The migrants, who are mostly of Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Honduran, and Venezuelan citizenship, are reported to be escaping economic hardship, gang violence and environmental disaster in their home countries (particularly acute in Guatemala and Honduras) to seek asylum in the US.[6] Unlike the demographic of migrants in the preceding years, an increasing proportion of current migrants arriving at the Mexico–US border are children, including unaccompanied children[13] and from countries outside Latin America.[14] “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_crisis