[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 10/12/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Epitaph for a Failed U.S. Occupation: The Late General Odierno's
Arch-Nemesis Muqtada al-Sadr Wins Iraq"*
<https://www.juancole.com/2021/10/epitaph-occupation-odiernos.html>
By *Juan Cole, *Informed Comment blog, posted October 12
*Commentary on the Iraqi parliamentary elections. The author teaches Middle
East history at the University of Michigan.*

*"C. L. R. James, Eric Williams, and the End of Slavery in the Caribbean"*
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/clr-james-eric-williams-end-of-slavery-abolition-caribbean-black-jacobins-end-of-slavery-british-economy-emancipation>
By* Walker Mimms, **Jacobin, *posted October 10
*The Trinidadian historians C. L. R. James and Eric Williams "forever
reshaped how we view the end of slavery in the Caribbean and around the
world." The author teaches history in the Bennington College Prison
Initiative.*
* <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691215839/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20>*

*"Abandoning Afghans from the Start"*
<https://bostonreview.net/war-security/christian-g-appy-abandoning-afghans-start>
By *Christian G. Appy, **Boston Review, *posted October 4
*A review-essay on *The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War *by
Craig Whitlock and the *Washington Post* (Simon & Schuster, 2021). The
author teaches history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a
well known historian of the Vietnam War.*

*"'A Horrible Mistake': Recovering from America's Imperial Delusions"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/a-horrible-mistake>
By *Andrew Bacevich, *TomDispatch.com, posted September 30
*Broadens the meaning of the term "horrible mistake," applied to the
killing of ten civilians, by a US drone attack in Kabul, to apply to the
entire US military adventure in the Middle East, starting with the 1983
creation of the U.S. Central Command ("CENTCOM"). The author is a retired
US Army colonel and professor emeritus of history and international
relations at Boston University.  *

*"Journalists Bungled Coverage of the Attica Uprising. 50 Years Later, the
Consequences Remain"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/30/attica-chronicle-media-disaster>
By *Eric Wemple, **Washington Post, *posted September 30
*On the media's swallowing of official untruths that purported to justify
the bloody suppression of the September 1971 Attica prison rebellion. The
author is a media critic for the *Washington Post.

*"The Names You'll Never Know: A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the
Washington Mall"* <https://tomdispatch.com/the-names-youll-never-know>
By *Nick Turse, *TomDispatch.com, posted September 26

*Puts a human face on a sampling of civilian victims of US wars, especially
since 9/11 (estimated by Brown University's Cost of War Project to have
reached between 364,000 and 387,000 during this twenty-year period). The
author is managing editor of TomDispatch.*

*"Has Neo-Orientalism Killed Our Ability to Sense the Limits of Western
Influence?"*
<https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/09/28/has-neo-orientalism-killed-our-ability-to-sense-the-limits-of-western-global-influence>
By *Anatol Lieven, **Responsible Statecraft, *posted September 26
*"The failure of Afghanistan should open our eyes to the fact that we don’t
really know other countries and cultures at all." The author teaches at
Georgetown University.*

*"This Was the Worst Slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. History. Few
Remember It"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/26/bear-river-massacre-native-americans-shoshone>
By* Dana Hedgpeth, **Washington Post, *posted September 26
*On the 1863 Bear River Massacre, in which US Army troops killed an
estimated 350 members of the Shoshone nation. The author is a Native
American who is a reporter for the *Washington Post.

*"The Japanese Surrender of 1945 Is Still Poorly Understood"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181372>
By *Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace, *History News Network, posted
September 26
*Argues that the US insistence on unconditional surrender prevented an
earlier end to the Pacific war. Jeremy Kuzmarov teaches history at Tulsa
Community College and is editor of *CovertAction Magazine; *Roger Peace
coordinates the U.S. Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide
<http://peacehistory-usfp.org> website.*

*"The Viral Photo of Haitian Migrants Taps into the Dark Echoes of American
History"*
<https://theweek.com/immigration/1005190/the-viral-photo-of-haitian-migrants-taps-into-the-dark-echoes-of-american>
By* Jeva Lange, **The Week, *posted September 23
*On a recent photograph seeming to show a border agent on horseback using a
whip against a Haitian immigrant. The author links the episode to slave
hunting and to the violent history of the Texas Rangers. The author is the
culture critic at *The Week.

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