Vietnam Anniversary: A Legacy of Resistance, Deception and Human Tragedy

On this week's Global Research News Hour we mark the 54th anniversary of the start of America's ground war in Vietnam with four interviews about under-reported aspects of the war. Professor Peter Dale Scott focuses his analysis on the Deep State motivations behind the Vietnam War and reasons for the escalation immediately after Kennedy's Assassination. Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan African News Wire expands on the solidarity between Black Nationalists and Civil Rights leaders in the US, and the Vietnamese resistance. Barrie Zwicker talks about the 'Gulf of Tonkin' false flag incident which enraged the US public and media coverage of the war gnerally. Finally, Professor Michel Chossudovsky reviews how the liberated south east Asian countru came to be defeated.