[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 5/4/20: Kent State anniversary; links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Note: Today is the 50th anniversary of the killing of four students at
Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard. A commemoration that
would otherwise have been held on the Kent State campus has been changed to
a virtual observance that should be available for at least the next week at
www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50 <http://www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50>. Thanks
to Tom Grace, author of a book on the Kent State killings and their
background, for this information.*


*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Four Students Were Killed in Ohio. America Was Never the Same"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/opinion/kent-state-shooting-protest.html>
By* Richard M. Perloff,** New York Times,* posted May 4
* Posted on the 50th anniversary of the National Guard killing of four
students at Kent State University. The author teaches communication and
political science at Cleveland State University.*

*"Trump's Attacks on the WHO Evoke Nostalgia for George W. Bush"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175282>
By* Jeffrey J. Matthews, *History News Network, posted May 3
*The "nostalgia" in the title refers, not to the "unnecessary and
catastrophic" war in Iraq but with Bush's actions in support of
international public health, which the article details. The author teaches
history and leadership at the University of Puget Sound has written the
book *Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot (2019).

*"Cholera and Coronavirus: Why We Must Not Repeat the Same Mistakes"*
<https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/01/cholera-and-coronavirus-why-we-must-not-repeat-the-same-mistakes>
By* Neil Singh, **The Guardian, *posted May 1
*This somewhat lengthy article draws lessons from the long (and continuing)
history of cholera, which still kills an estimated 100,000 people a year in
poor countries.The author is a primary care physician and a senior teaching
fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.*

*"A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies"*
<https://nacla.org/news/2020/04/30/narco-state-allies>
*By Alexander Aviña, NCLA Newsletter, posted April 30*
*With the Justice Department's "narco-terrorism" charges against Venezuela
government officials in the background, this article sketches a long
history of US agencies' collusion with drug trafficking by forces allied
with the American empire. The author teaches Latin American history at
Arizona State University.*

*"Stop Saying More Have Died from Coronavirus than in Vietnam: US Wr Killed
a Million There"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2020/04/coronavirus-vietnam-million.html>
By* Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted April 30
*The author teaches history at the University of Michigan.*

*"The Dangerous New Consensus: Blame China"*
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/29/opinion/dangerous-new-consensus-blame-china>
By *Stephen Kinzer.* *Boston Globe, *posted April 29

*Why has the presidential campaign turned into a debate over which
candidate is more virulently opposed to Beijing?" The author is a senior
fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at
Brown University.*

*"Prominent Scholars Threaten to Boycott Colleges That Don't Support
Contingent Faculty During Pandemic"*
<https://www.chronicle.com/article/Prominent-Scholars-Threaten-to/248651>
By* Megan Zahneis, **Chronicle of Higher Education, *posted April 28
*The statement, with 70 initial signatures from tenured faculty members,
promises to boycott invitations for speaking engagements, conferences, etc.
from institutions that fail to “include non-tenure-track faculty and
graduate workers in extensions of fixed-term contracts.” *

*"The World Leadership Trophy: The Winner's Prize in the Virus-Killer Race"*
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176693>
By *Dilip Hiro, *TomDispatch.com, posted April 26
*This is a detailed, chronologically organized comparison of how China and
the US, respectively, responded to the coronavirus. China comes off looking
infinitely better. The author has written 34 books including *After Empire:
The Birth of a Multipolar World *(2009).*

*"Fifty Years Ago This Spring: Millions of Students Struck to End the War
in Vietnam"*
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/04/kent-state-shooting-vietnam-war-protest-student-organizing>
By *Steve Early,** Jacobin,* posted April 24
*The author is a longtime labor activist who was a participant in the May
1970 national student strike against the Vietnam War.*

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