[H-Pad] H-PAD Notes 4/26/18: "Two Minutes to Midnight" conference; Cost of War website; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

To members and friends of Historians for Peace and Democracy: Here are a
couple of notes plus our occasional set of article links.


*Note: *On May 12 the American Friends Service Committee and several other
peace organizations are sponsoring an international conference entitled “Two
Minutes to Midnight: How Do We Move from Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear
Abolition”
<http://masspeaceaction.org/event/international-peace-and-nuclear-disarmament-conference/>
at Judson Church in New York City with speeches by Noam Chomsky, Daniel
Ellsberg, and others. Registration is required.



*Note: *The Costs of War website <http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar>,
housed at Brown University, offers up-to-date tables, charts, and maps with
information on current US wars.



*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*


*“Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File”
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence-torture-archive/2018-04-26/gina-haspels-cia-torture-file>*

By *Tom Blanton and John Prados,* National Security Archive, posted April
26

*The authors provide documents on the CIA nominee's role in the use and
coverup of of illegal torture.*



*“The Truth about Oil and the Iraq War, 15 Years Later”*
<http://universitypressblog.dept.ku.edu/uncategorized/1395/>

By *Gary Vogler, *Informed Comment blog, posted April 26

*This is based on the author’s forthcoming book *Iraq and the Politics of
Oil *(University Press of Kansas)*. *The author is a former senior oil
consultant for US forces in Iraq.*



*“Top Six Reasons Pompeo Should Not Be Secretary of State”
<https://www.juancole.com/2018/04/reasons-pompeo-secretary.html>*

By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted April 21

*Arguments worth remembering, although Pompeo has just won Senate
confirmation*



<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/mccarthyism-canary-mission-bds-palestine-blacklist>*“
<https://www.juancole.com/2018/04/reasons-pompeo-secretary.html>The
Anti-BDS Smear Campaign Escalates ”
<https://www.juancole.com/2018/04/reasons-pompeo-secretary.html> *

By David Palumbo-Liu, *Jacobin, *posted April 19

*The author is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University.*



*“Trump Declares ‘Mission Accomplished’ on Syria Attacks – But Whose
Mission?”
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/04/18/trump-declares-mission-accomplished-syria-attacks-but-whose-mission/NpzJY6ryCKjmpsWBpwTlEI/story.html>*

By *Andrew J. Bacevich, **Boston Globe, *posted April 18

*The author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations
at Boston University.*



*“The History of White Power”
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/opinion/history-white-power.html>*

By *Kathleen Belew, **New York Times, *posted April 18

*The author teaches history at the University of Chicago and is the author
of *Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America.



*“Review of Daniel Ellsburg’s The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a
Nuclear WarPlanner” <https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168786>*

By *Lawrence S. Wittner, *History News Network, posted April 17

*The author is a professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albany*


*“Has Trump Become a Realist?
<http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/17/has-trump-become-a-realist/amp/>*By
*Stephen
M. Walt, **Foreign Policy, *posted April 17
*"In the Middle East, at least, one could argue that Trump is trying - in
his own ill-informed, impulsive, and erratic way - to return to the
strategy of offshore balancing that the United States pursued more or less
successfully in this region from 1945 to 1991."*

*“Will Kim Jong Un Give Up North Korea’s Nukes? History Says No”
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-15/will-kim-jong-un-give-up-north-korea-s-nukes-history-says-no>*

By *Andy Sharp and Kanga Kong, *Bloomberg.com, posted April 15



*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg, Roger Peace, and an anonymous reader for
suggesting articles for the above list. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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