[haw-info] HAW Notes 6/16/16: Links to recent articles of interest

Links to Recent Articles of Interest

"The Pentagon's Real Strategy: Keeping the Money Flowing"

By Andrew Cockburn, TomDispatch.com, posted June 16

"Top 7 Ways of Telling if Someone Is Lying about being a 'Salafi Jihadi'"

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted June 14

The author teaches history at the University of Michigan

"What America Keeps Getting Wrong in the Middle East"

By Charles W. Freeman, Jr., The National Interest, posted June 14

The author is a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia among many governmental positions; the article draws extensively from the history of recent decades. 

"The War in Vietnam: Studies in Remembrance and Legacy: 2000-2014"

By Jerry Lembcke, Choice, June issue

An extensive bibliographic essay, commissioned from the author by the journal of the American Library Association

"Why Israel Is Blocking Access to Its Archives"

By Jonathan Cook, Aljazeera, posted June 10

"'This Will Stop Only When the American People Get Fed Up': American Exceptionalism, the New York Times, and Our Foreign Policy after Barack Obama"

Part 2 of interview with Andrew J. Bacevich by Patrick Smith, Salon.com, posted May 25

Andrew Bacevich is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University.

Part 1 of the interview with Prof. Bacevich was posted by Salon on May 15: "'The Scope of Our Failure': The Real Story of Our Decades-Long Foreign Policy Disaster That Set the Middle East on Fire"

"Obama Is Not First President at Permanent War"

By David Swanson, Let's Try Democracy blog, posted May 23

"The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People"

By George Black, The New Yorker, posted May 20

"China Closes the Innovation Gap"

By John V. Walsh, Consortium News, posted May 9

"Despondent, Divided, and Angry: Welcome to the Past"

By Thomas M. Grace, History News Network, posted May 1

Based in part on the author's newly published book Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties"

As usual, thanks are due to an anonymous reader who has sent numerous suggestions for these occasional lists, including the above list. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.