[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 9/23/21: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

*Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"The Fate of Cassandra: Dire Predictions Go Unheeded"*
<https://zcomm.org/zblogs/the-fate-of-cassandra-dire-predictions-go-unheeded>
By *Lawrence Wittner, **Z *Blogs, posted September 20
*Compares the ancient Greek myth to the current worldwide lack of effective
policies regarding three major threats to human life -- nuclear-weapon
buildups, climate change, and disease pandemics -- despite warnings that go
back decades. The author is a professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albany.*

*"US Admits That Hellfire Strike on Kabul, Killing 10, Was a "Mistake," But
It Is Not a New Problem"*
<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/09/19/us-admits-strike-killing-10-kabul-was-mistake-it-not-new-problem>
By* Juan Cole, **Common Dreams, *posted September 19
*A short article on the extent of US bombing in Afghanistan in the last
years of the war. "The incident underlines the dangers of conducting
counterterrorism remotely with missile and drone strikes." The author
teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.*

*"It's Politicians--Not Migrants--Who Are Prolonging the Coronavirus
Pandemic"*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/16/its-politicians-not-migrants-who-are-prolonging-covid-19>
By* Randa Tawil, **Washington Post, *posted September 16
*Compares the scapegoating of immigrants by the Republican governors of
Texas and Florida with the policies of the major 19th-century colonial
powers toward the spread of contagious diseases such as cholera. "Ignoring
science to maintain business interests while blaming migrants and
marginalized populations for the spread of disease is nothing new." The
author teaches at Texas Christian University.*

*"The United States of Amnesia -- the Tulsa Massacre"*
<https://portside.org/2021-09-16/united-states-amnesia-tulsa-massacre>
*By Eric Foner, *Portside.org, posted September 16 (originally in *London
Review of Books*)
*Review essay on Scott Ellsworth's 2021 book *The Ground Breaking: The
Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City's Search for Justice. The essay
covers both the massacre itself, on its 100th anniversary, and the
decades-long suppression of its memory. The author teaches history at
Columbia University.

*"The War on Terror Was Corrupt from the Start"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/opinion/afghanistan-war-economy.html>
By* Farah Stockman, **New York Times, *posted September 13
*On the US war in Afghanistan,  reliant to a great extent on the bribing of
warlords. "Instead of a nation, what we really built were more than 500
military bases — and the personal fortunes of the people who supplied them.
That had always been the deal." The author is an editorial board member of
the *New York Times *and a former Pulitzer Prize winner.*

* "The Winner in Afghanistan: China"
<https://tomdispatch.com/the-winner-in-afghanistan-china>*
By* Alfred McCoy, *TomDispatch.com, posted September 12
*The author teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. *His
latest book (to be published in October by Dispatch Books) is *To Govern
the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1642595780/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20>*.

*"Memo from Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women"*
<https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181238>
By *Laura Weinstein, *History News Network, posted September 12
*On the workings of Ireland's former constitutional ban on abortions,
repealed by popular referendum in 2018, and its similarity to the new Texas
abortion law. The author has a PhD in Irish history and works at Macauley
Honors College in Queens College, CUNY.*

*"September 11 and the Debacle of 'Nation Building' in Iraq and
Afghanistan"*
<https://fpif.org/september-11-and-the-debacle-of-nation-building-in-iraq-and-afghanistan>
By *Walden Bello, *Foreign Policy in Focus, posted September 10
*A historical analysis of why US "nation building" succeeded in the
Philippines and in postwar Japan and failed in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and
Iraq. The author is a professor at the University of the Philippines and a
former member of the Philippine House of Representatives.*

*"Not a Nation of Immigrants"*
<https://monthlyreview.org/2021/09/01/not-a-nation-of-immigrants>
By *Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, **Monthly Review, *posted September 1
*A lengthy historical critique of nation-of-immigrants rhetoric, which
"continues to mask the settler-colonial violence that established and
maintained the United States and turns immigrants into settlers." Among the
author's books is *An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States*
(Beacon Press, 2014).*

*"Joe Biden's Critics Lost Afghanistan"*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/opinion/afghanistan-biden.html>
By* Ross Douthat, **New York Times, *posted August 31
*"[I]f the only aspect of this catastrophe that our leaders remember is
what went wrong in August 2021, then we'll have learned nothing except to
always double down on failure, and the next disaster will be worse." The
author is a conservative columnist for the *New York Times.


*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg, Jerise Fogel, 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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