[haw-info] HAW Notes (including links to recent articles of interest)

[Jim O'Brien]

 To members and friends of Historians Against the War,   Here are a few
notes, followed by the latest in our series of biweekly mailings of links to
article of interest.



1.  HAW will have a session (details are still being planned) at the AHA
convention in San Diego, Saturday, January 9, at 5:30 – 7:00 pm.  It will be
in the secondary convention hotel, which is not being boycotted.  Margaret
Power (power at iit.edu) and Andor Skotnes (skotna at sage.edu) are coordinating
plans for the session.



2.  Michael Zweig of U.S. Labor Against the War, who has been a strong ally
of HAW, is also the coordinator of the How Class Works 2010 conference, June
3-5 at Stony Brook University.  The proposals deadline is December 14 and
information is at
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/cfp.shtml.



3.  Veterans for Peace is looking for an executive director.  Information is
at
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Position_available_executive_director.vp.html





*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*


“Obama’s Folly http://warincontext.org/ By Andrew Bacevich, War in Context
website, from the *Los Angeles Times, *December 3


“The President Has Drawn the Wrong Lessons From His Understanding of the
History of War”

*
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/2/vietnam_vet_scholar_andrew_bacevichon_obama
*

Interview with *Andrew Bacevich *on Democracy Now, posted December 2

* *

*“Obama’s Surge: Has the President Been Misled by the Iraq Analogy?”*

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/12/01/afghanistan_surge/index.html

By* Juan Cole, *Salon.com. posted December 1

*A detailed analysis of circumstances that gave the Iraq “surge” the
appearance of success, and of how circumstances in Afghanistan are
different.*

* *

*“Afghanistan: The Roach Motel of Empires”*

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48120

By *Zoltan Grossman,* AfterDowningStreet.com, posted December 2



*“Afghanistan Fact Sheet: The Numbers Behind the Troop Increase”*

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/newsletter/2009/12/01/Afghanistan-fact-sheet-numbers-behind-troop-increase

By the *National Priorities Project, *posted December 1



*“A Better Way to Kill?  Human Terrain Systems, Anthropologists and the War
in Afghanistan”*

http://www.counterpunch.org/price12012009.html

By *David Price, *CounterPunch.org, posted December 1



*“It’s Obama’s War Now”*

http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp11302009.html

By *Gary Leupp, *CounterPunch.org, posted November 30

*The author teaches history at Tufts University; despite its title, the
article is mainly historical.*

* *
“The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan Through CIA Eyes: Lessons for the
United States Today”

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/120526.html

By *Bennett Ramberg,* Huffington Post, posted November 24

* *
Bill Moyers’ Journal, November 20 – on escalation in Vietnam

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/transcript1.html

Public Broadcasting System, November 20

*On Lyndon Johnson’s decision making on Vietnam in the mid-1960s, using
excerpts from President Johnson’s taped phone conversations with top
advisors.  The video of this program can be accessed at
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11202009/watch.html*

* *

*“Why Liberals Kill”*

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-17/why-liberals-kill/

By *Thad** Russell,* The Daily Beast, posted October 17**

*a broad-brush analysis of the liberal foreign policy tradition from a
libertarian conservative perspective*


*Suggestions for inclusion in these lists are welcome:  they can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com.  Members of the working group for this project are
Matt Bokovoy, Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg, Jim O'Brien, Maia Ramnath, and
Sarah Shields*
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