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Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume Number 39, Issue 5. March 29 [1976]

The Case of Vietnam

The Case of Vietnam

And then, of course, there is Vietnam. A book by Alan S. Millar The Case of the People against Standard Oil" states: 'As early as 1959, the Rockefeller brothers called for American counter-insurgency warfare in Vietnam to make Vietnam safe for American investment and to squash the freedom and independence of the Vietnamese people.

'A Rockefeller company. Standard Vacuum Oil (now Esso Standard Oil Eastern Inc.) was the largest business in South Vietnam in 1960. Acheson, Dulles, Rusk and Kissinger, who all played such criminal roles in formulating the now defeated U.S. policy towards Vietnam, were all Rockefeller executives.

'At the time of the massive escalation of the U.S. war against Vietnam in September 1965, David Rockefeller and eleven of his closest associates in the Rockefeller and Standard Oil sphere of interests, were key people in placing a full-page advertisement in the New York Times supporting the Presidents war policies in Vietnam In July of that year, an official of the Rockefellers' Chase Manhattan Bank stated happily: 'I must say, though, that the U.S. actions in Vietnam this year have considerably reassured both Asian and Western investors.'"

Cartoon of a man in a suit giving the peace sign

But Rocky's plans are inevitably doomed to fail, he and others like him and the system they're struggling to maintain are doomed as the dinosaurs were. People can be pushed so far and then they fight back and defeat their oppressors, remove the blood-sucking parasites from off their backs and take control of their own destimes. The victories of the peoples of China, Korea and Vietnam mark successive stages in the decline of American imperialism.