[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 1/30/20: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Grading the Pentagon's Joint Vision 2020 -- 20 Years Later"*
<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/grading-the-pentagons-joint-vision-2020-20-years-later>
By* Andrew J. Bacevich, **The American Conservative, *posted January 30
*"Naive, short-sighted, and self-indulgent, this blueprint turned out to be
a joke, one the military played on itself." The author is a professor
emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University.*

*"Top 5 Ways Trump Plan for Palestinians Is a Crime Against Humanity"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/01/palestinians-against-humanity.html>
By* Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted January 29
*The author teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.*

*"Trump's Middle East Peace Plan Exposes the Ugly Truth"*
<https://portside.org/2020-01-29/trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-exposes-ugly-truth>
By* Nathan Thrall, **New York Times, *posted January 29
*"This isn't a break with the status quo. It's the natural culmination of
decades of American policy." The author is the director of the Arab-Israeli
Project of the International Crisis Group.*

*"What the El Mozote Massacre Can Teach Us About Trump's War on the Press"*
<https://theintercept.com/2020/01/28/el-mozote-massacre-reagan-war-on-press>
By *Jon Schwartz, **The Intercept, *posted January 28
*On the Reagan administration's fierce attacks on *New York Times* reporter
Raymond Bonner when he*
* made known the massacre by a US-trained battallion of over 800 villagers
in El Salvador in December 1980. *

*"Secretary Pompeo, Meet Vice President Agnew"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174164>
By *Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, and Jerald Poldair, *History News
Network, posted January 28
*Charles Holden and Jerald Poldair teach history at St. Mary's College of
Maryland and Lawrence University, respectively, and Zach Messitte is the
president of Ripon College. The three are co-authors of the book*
Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America.

*"The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq to Attack Iran"*
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/28/us-recycling-its-big-lie-about-iraq-target-iran>
By* Nicolas J. S. Davies, *CommonDreams.org, posted January 28
*Such a war " would engulf the Middle East and the world in even
greater chaos than the one the CIA engineered against Iraq."** Nicolas
Davies is the author of *Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and
Destruction of Iraq.

*"Missing Zinn"*
<http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/cornel-west-mordecai-lyon-missing-zinn>
Interview of *Cornell West *by *Mordecai Lyon,** Boston Review, *posted
January 26
*A freewheeling discussion with Cornell West, with a good friend of
historian Howard Zinn, marking the tenth anniversary of Zinn's death in
January 2010.*

*"Martin Indyk: An Important Neoliberal Defects from the Blob"*
<https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/martin-indyk-an-important-neoliberal-defects>
By *Andrew J. Bacevich, **The American Conservative, *posted January 22
*Hails the recent call by a longtime pillar of American Middle East policy
for the US to withdraw from the region. The author is a professor emeritus
of history and international relations at Boston University.*

*"The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an 'Aberration'"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/sunday/michelle-alexander-new-jim-crow.html>
By *Michelle Alexander, **New York Times, *posted January 17
*"From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep
denial."  This lengthy essay is adapted from the 10th anniversary edition
of her book *The New Jim Crow.

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