This book sheds crucial new light on the epochal US interventions in Southeast Asia after World War II. Antiwar activist Fred Branfman describes the tragic lives of Laotian peasants under US bombing. Cambodia scholar Ben Kiernan and colleague Owen Taylor illuminate the course of Cambodia history after unprecedented US bombing. The book also includes classic works by Noam Chomsky, Nick Turse, and Edward Herman. Mark Pavlick is an independent editor. He was active in the US movement against the Indochina wars in volunteer work with the Indochina Mobile Education Project and the Indochina Resource Center in Washington, DC.   CONTENTS Introduction 1 Richard Falk 1. War Crimes in Indochina and Our Troubled National Soul 5 Fred Branfman 2. Excerpts from Voices from the Plain of Jars 19 Collected by Fred Branfman 3. Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos 23 Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell 4. Agent Orange in Vietnam 53 Tuan V. Nguyen 5. Iraq, Another Vietnam? Consider Cambodia 75 Ben Kiernan and Taylor Owen 6. My Lai and the American Way of War Crimes 85 Gareth Porter 7. The Indonesian Domino 101 Clinton Fernandes 8. "So Many People Died": The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 119 Nick Turse 9. Bloodbaths in Indochina: Constructive, Nefarious, and Mythical (1979) 125 Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman 10. From Mad Jack to Mad Henry: The United States in Vietnam (1975) 173 Noam Chomsky 11. After "Mad Henry": US Policy Toward Indochina Since 1975 201 Ngô V~ınh Long 12. My Experiences with Laos and the Indochina Wars 221 Interview with Fred Branfman 13. Interview with Noam Chomsky 251 Glossary of Selected Terms 261 Further Action 267 Recommended Reading 273 Acknowledgments 281 Permissions 283 Notes 285 Index 333 Contributors 351