[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 7/1/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"The Three Revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party"*
<https://fpif.org/the-three-revolutions-of-the-chinese-communist-party/?emci=1482e92d-7cda-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=a19c6ca4-88da-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=3937852>
By *Walden Bello, **Foreign Policy in Focus, *posted June 30
*An overview of the Chinese party's hundred-year history, focused
especially on its rise to its current status as the world's leading
economic power. The author is an internationally known Filipono sociologist
and activist who teaches currently at the University of the Philippines.*

*"The Palestinians Will Not - and Cannot - Be Ignored"*
<https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2021-06-30/palestinians-will-not-and-cannot-be-ignored>
By* Rashid Khalidi, **Foreign Affairs, *posted June 30
*Points to new features in the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflicts,
including changing dynamics among the Palestinians. "... the stirring of a
new generation of Palestinians offers some grounds for hope. A revivified
Palestinian national movement can dispense with the assumptions and
failures of previous generations and, through its actions and messaging,
make clear the untenability of the status quo." The author teaches history
and Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.*

*"**Nationalism on the Decline"*
<https://zcomm.org/zblogs/nationalism-on-the-decline/>
By *Lawrence Wittner, *CommonDreams.org, posted June 29
*A brief highlighting of recent political setbacks to right-wing
nationalist parties in a number of countries around the world. The author
is a professor of history emeritus at SUNY Albany.*

*"On Juneteenth, Three Stirring Stories of How Enslaved People Gained Their
Freedom"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/19/juneteenth-emancipation-slave-stories>
*By Gillian Brockell, Washington Post history blog, posted June 19*
*"Millions of Americans gained freedom from 1861 to 1865 in a slow-moving
wave that includes the Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth and the
passage of the 13th Amendment. There are millions of stories to tell." This
article spotlights three such stories from Virginia, Arkansas, and
Kentucky. The author is a staff writer for the *Washington Post*'s history
blog, "Retropolis."*

*"Was January 6 a Dress Rehearsal for Coup d'Etat in the US?"*
<https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/06/12/was-january-6th-a-dress-rehearsal-for-coup-detat-in-the-u-s>
*Highlights some details in a bipartisan Senate report issued June 8 on the
events of last January. The author is a historian who formerly taught at
Tulsa University and other schools and is currently editor of *Covert Action*
magazine. He has had books published on US foreign policy, the
modernization of police repression, and the "drug war."*

*"America Is Stabbing Itself in the Back: Tough Truths Are Desperately
Needed About America's Lost Wars*
<https://tomdispatch.com/america-is-stabbing-itself-in-the-back>
By *William J. Astore, *TomDispatch.com, posted June 17
*Finds parallels in the present-day US to the two big lies that infected
Germany after World War I: that the German military was never defeated on
the battlefield and that internal enemies in Germany had administered a
"stab in the back." The author is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel
who has taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School.*

*"Sorry, Liberals. But You Really Shouldn't Love NATO"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/opinion/biden-nato-summit.html>
*By Stephen Wertheim, *New York Times, *posted June 14*
*"It’s time for Americans to recover their critical faculties when they
hear “NATO,” a military alliance that cements European division, bombs the
Middle East, burdens the United States and risks great-power war — of which
Americans should want no part." *

* Mr. Wertheim, a historian of U.S. foreign policy, is the director of
grand strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. *

<https://www.texasobserver.org/forget-the-alamo-unravels-a-texas-history-made-of-myths-or-rather-lies>
*"'Forget the Alamo' Unravels a Texas History Made of Myths, or Rather,
Lies"*
<https://www.texasobserver.org/forget-the-alamo-unravels-a-texas-history-made-of-myths-or-rather-lies>
*By Nic Yeager, **Texas Observer, *posted June 10
*A review essay on the new book *Forget the Alamo *by three Texas authors
(Penguin, 2021) taking apart the standard account still required to be
taught in Texas public schools) of the 1836 battle. *

*"There's Less Than Two Years to Save American Democracy"*
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/voting-rights-voter-suppression-laws-state-level-republicans-ari-berman-interview>
Interview with *Ari Berman, **Jacobin, *posted June 5
*On parallels between current Republican electoral manipulation efforts at
the state level with the institution of all-white elections in the South
after Reconstruction. Ari Berman is a senior reporter for *Mother Jones*
and author of *Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in
America* (Macmillan, 2015).*

*"Capital and the Ecology of Disease"*
<https://monthlyreview.org/2021/06/01/capital-and-the-ecology-of-disease>
*By John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Hannah Holleman, **Monthly
Review, *posted June 1

* " With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of
historical-materialist epidemiology has become increasingly evident." This
article is a lengthy but readable, account of writers going back several
centuries who have applied social analysis to the incidence of diseases and
the circumstances that have produced them. The authors are sociologists at,
respectively, the University of Oregon, University of Utah, and Amherst
College.*


*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg, Jerise Fogel, and an anonymous reader for
flagging some of the above articles. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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