Historians for Peace
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Current Emergency: Resources #1 Given a multi-faceted crisis with deep roots in American public policy, we have compiled some suggested articles and simple initiatives –which might be particularly helpful for students and/or community groups. Mismanagement of the Virus: “The US Was Beset by Denial and Dysfunction as the Coronavirus Raged” Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true Military spending…
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Dear friend, We wanted to let our supporters know about our progress in creating a formal membership. We now have more than one hundred members and we would welcome more. Last Friday, we held two national conference calls in which dozens of people participated. We are shortly sending out for a review a proposal to form…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Malignant Contagion: Trumpism's Mindlessness on Coronavirus and Albert Camus' 'The Plague'" By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted April 6 Likens the Trump administration's responses to the Covid-19 pandemic to the irresponsibility of city officials in Camus' classic novel. The author teaches Middle Eastern history at the University of…
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EMERGENCY MESSAGE ON GAZA CRISIS COVID-19 has entered the Gaza Strip, endangering thousands of Palestinians. Gaza is densely populated, making physical distancing difficult. Decades of Israeli siege have devastated the infrastructure and crippled the medical system. It is urgent that medical supplies and other forms of relief be delivered to the residents of Gaza.…
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Note: The H-PAD sponsored website U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide has added a lengthy and well-illustrated essay on The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001 by Brian D'Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov, and Roger Peace, covering the Panama invasion of 1989 and the Persian Gulf War of 1991, among other topics.. Links to Recent Articles of Interest…
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Emergency Message: End Sanctions on Iran Now … As countries around the world cope with the peril of COVID- 19, the 80 million people of Iran face additional dangers created by the American sanctions on their country. In the same week that China and the United Kingdom called for an easing of sanctions, on March…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Judgment Day for the National Security State: The Coronavirus and the Real Threats to American Safety and Freedom" By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com, posted March 26 The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "The…
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Judith and Lewis Leavitt authored this in The Progressive, reminding us of how pandemics stimulate demonizing along lines of race, ethnicity, and gender. https://progressive.org/op-eds/dont-let-covid-19-unleash-bias-leavitt-200316/
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Gene Genovese and Our Criminally Reckless Wars" By Andrew J. Bacevich, The American Conservative, posted March 3 On one of many phases of the late controversial historian's career. "His lessons from Vietnam could teach us a lot about the havoc we've wreaked in the Middle East." The author is…
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Dear friends, Since our founding in 2003, Historians Against the War/Historians for Peace & Democracy has operated as a loose network. Anyone who agreed with our mission was considered a supporter or member. This open-door policy allowed us to reach out and incorporate thousands of people. 2019 was a year of sustained activism by…