[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 8/22/18: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Beijing's Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump"
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176460>*
By *Alfred W. McCoy, *TomDispatch.com, posted August 21
*The author teaches history at the University of Wisconsin and is author of
the recent *In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of
U.S. Global Power.

*"How to Interfere in a Foreign Election"
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/08/18/how-interfere-foreign-election/M4JZpgqpqiOsPXbTKPAu5L/story.html>*
By *Stephen Kinzer, **Boston Globe, *posted August 19
*On heavy-handed US support for Boris Yeltsin's reelection in 1996*

*"American History Is Full of Immigrant Haters Like Stephen Miller"
<https://www.thedailybeast.com/american-history-is-full-of-immigrant-haters-like-stephen-miller>*
By *Clive Irving, **The Daily Beast, *posted August 17

*"The War Piece to End All War Pieces, or How to Fight a War of Ultimate
Repetitiousness" <http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176458>*
By *Tom Engelhardt, *TomDispatch.com, posted August 16
*A retrospective on the first near-17 years of the US war in Afghanistan*

*"US Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union
as 'Viable' Societies"
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2018-08-15/us-nuclear-war-plan-option-sought-destruction-china-soviet-union-viable-societies>*
By the *National Security Archive *at George Washington University, posted
August 15
*Newly declassified documents on nuclear planning in the 1960s*

*"Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified"
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/foia-intelligence-torture-archive/2018-08-10/gina-haspel-cia-torture-cables-declassified>*
By the *National Security Archive, *posted August 10
*The documents were released in response to a lawsuit under the Freedom of
Information Act.*

*"Is Russia an Adversary?"
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/09/is-russia-an-adversary/>*
By *Gary Leupp, *CounterPunch.org, posted August 9
*The author teaches history at Tufts University.*

*"What I Found When I Visited Japan's Hiroshima Memorial"
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169322>*
By *Fred Pearce, *History News Network, posted August 4
*The author is a journalist whose latest book is *Fallout: Disasters, Lies,
and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age (2018).

*"Trump, the Republican Party, and Westmoreland County"
<http://feature.politicalresearch.org/trump-and-westmoreland-county>*
By *Margaret Power, *Political Research Associates, posted August 4
*The author teaches history at Illinois Institute of Technology and is a
co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. She grew up in Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania and in this article she describes and analyzes its
shift from "blue" to "red."*

*"We Quit Our U-Va. History Center Because It Hired an Enabler of Trump's
Anti-Truth"
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/07/31/we-quit-our-u-va-center-because-it-hired-an-enabler-of-trumps-anti-truth/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.62fafd55c4e6>*
By *William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. Leffler*, *Washington Post, *posted
July 31
*The authors both teach history at the University of Virginia.*

*"Trump's Foreign Policy Is Awful, but There's a Better Alternative than
the Establishment Version"
<https://fpif.org/trumps-foreign-policy-is-awful-but-theres-a-better-alternative-than-the-establishments-version/>*
By *Lawrence S. Wittner, *Foreign Policy in Focus, posted July 31
*The author is a professor of history emeritus at SUNY Albany.*

*Thanks to an anonymous reader for suggesting some of the articles in the
above list list and to Steve Gosch for suggesting some and consulting on
all of them. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48 at gmail.com
<jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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