H-PAD Notes
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “War Is Becoming Obsolete” By Peter Kuznick, American Committee for US-Russia Accord, posted July 20 A short piece arguing that in today’s wars “defense has become easier than offense” and that war “is becoming obsolete,” yet momentum is building for the acquisition and potential use of nuclear weapons. Hails the organization…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Iran Deal: A Peace Activist’s Perspective” By Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK, posted June 18 “Trump and Netanyahu should never have started the war on Iran, and Congress should have stopped it. But now it has to end. There is an agreement on the table, and we should do everything we can…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Witness to a Revolution” By Marc Egnal, History News Network, posted May 21 A personal essay that traces conflicting themes among historians since the author’s time in graduate school in the 1960s regarding the causes of the American Revolution. He offers the desire for westward expansion as a theme that is…
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Notes: A group of scholars from the US, Egypt, and Jordan have established an archive, Remembering Gaza Scholars, with names, affiliations, and photographs of academic colleagues from universities and colleges in Gaza (82 so far) who have died in the Israeli genocide…. New features on the US Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide, sponsored by the Peace History…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Why the US Navy Won’t Blast the Iranians and ‘Open’ Strait of Hormuz” By James A. Russell, Responsible Statecraft, posted March 31 Briefly reviews the history of US naval warfare and argues that the emergence of “cheap, unmanned anti-ship weapons,” as used by Ukraine to neutralize the Russian fleet in the Black…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Of Course Trump Bombed Iran” By Robert Malley and Stephen Wertheim, New York Times, posted March 5 A quick review of US policy toward Iran during recent administrations, finding a consistent assumption, questionable but never questioned, that Iran has presented a threat to US security. Robert Malley was the special US envoy…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance’s America” By Timothy Snyder, Reader Supported News, posted February 2 (from Substack) A long, detailed account of the demonization by JD Vance and (literally) American Nazis of the large Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, now threatened with forcible deportation. The author, who grew up…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Today, Trump’s Target Was Caracas. What Tomorrow?” By Stephen Wertheim, The Guardian, posted January 4 Liken’s Trump’s claim of success in Venezuela to his initial “This is genius” response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Now, “Trump has thrown a country of around 28 million people into uncertainty and tossed…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “‘We’ve Got to Kill and Kill and Kill’” By Dan Kaufman, New York Review of Books, December 4 issue Review essay on Paul Preston’s Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain (William Collins, 2024). “As Francisco Franco’s reputation grows on the far right, a new history of his regime reminds us…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “Trump’s Squeeze of Venezuela Goes Beyond the Monroe Doctrine” By Alan McPherson, Portside, posted November 4 (from The Conversation) Runs through two centuries of US policy in Latin America, concluding that the current military buildup aimed at Venezuela “is in key respects both unprecedented and shocking. It could also…