July 2019
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“How America’s Wars End (Messily): And the Afghan War Will be No Exception” By Danny Sjursen, TomDispatch.com, posted July 28 The author is a retired U.S. Army major who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a former history instructor at West Point. “White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to…
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Few people today even know that there was a robust GI Movement, or that it had grown so large by 1971 that the Pentagon felt it was necessary to begin pulling ground troops out. The book and the exhibit, both called Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War, is much more…
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Dear Friends, We are sending you three links regarding the abuse of immigrants on the Southern border and a group of journalists and scholars that has formed to mobilize against it. The first is an article calling on academics to engage in nonviolent actions to shut down the Trump-sponsored detention camps for immigrants https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/09/call-action-journalists-academics-urges-americans-use-all-nonviolent-means-necessary. Join us…
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Missing Three-Letter Word in the Iran Crisis: Oil’s Enduring Sway in U.S. Policy in the Middle East” By Michael Klare, TomDispatch.com, posted July 11 Traces four decades of US determination to control the shipping lanes for the export of oil from the Gulf region. “Joe Biden: Protector of…
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Dear friends of Historians for Peace and Democracy, This spring we initiated an exciting new relationship giving the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) permission to post our “Broadsides for the Trump Era” on their website as they come out, after which anyone can republish them. The first to appear was Margaret Power’s “Puerto Rico: A U.S.…