[haw-info] HAW Notes 5/17/13, including links to recent articles of interest

To members and friends of Historians Against the War,

Here are some notes, plus a set of links to recent articles of interest.

1. Many of the talks from the HAW-sponsored April 5-7 conference on "The New Faces of War" are now on-line in one form or another.  (Several are in video format, recorded and edited by the Baltimore-based Indypendent Reader.) Links to all the available video- and audiotapes and on-line papers are available at http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/conf2013/talks.html.

2. An on-line petition is being circulated asking for reversal of the FBI's inclusion of Assata Shakur on its "10 Most Wanted Terrorists" list. The petition gives background; the FBI's announcement also stimulated an eloquent article by Alice Walker, "Sister Assata: This Is What American History Looks Like."

Links to Recent Articles of Interest

"Obama Isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in Hot Water for Acting Too Much Like Woodrow Wilson"

By Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic, posted May 16

"Where Has All the Money Gone? How Contractors Raked in $385 Billion to Build and Support U.S. Bases Abroad since 2001"

By David Vine, TomDispatch.com, posted May 15

"History Lessons the West Refuses to Learn"

By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch, posted May 13

"Hard Hats, Hippies, and the Real Antiwar Movement"

By Penny Lewis, Chronicle of Higher Education, posted May 13

"The U.S. Can't Remake Syria"

By Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston Globe, posted May 8

"And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth"

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted May 7

"Dealing Remote-Control Drone Death, the US Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

By Lawrence Wilkerson and Akbar Ahmed, The Guardian, posted May 4

"The US and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On"

By Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted May 2

"'I'm Studying the Vietnam War...': The Veteran Voice in the Vietnam War History Curriculum"

By Jerry Lembcke, Zinn Education Project, posted April 25

Thanks to Mim Jackson, Rosalyn Baxandall, and Jerry Lembcke for suggesting articles that are included in the above list. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.