[H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 8/23/23: Links to recent articles of interest

[Jim O'Brien]

 *Links to Recent Articles of Interest*

*"Ecuador Heads to Presidential Runoff with Opposing Visions on the Ballot"
<https://nacla.org/ecuador-heads-presidential-runoff-opposing-visions-ballot>*
By *Marc Becker,* *Nacla,* posted August 21
*A detailed analysis of the upcoming Ecuadoran election, with background on
the social dynamics of the country's recent history. The author teaches
Latin American history at Truman State University in Missouri, with Ecuador
as a special interest, and is a Steering Committee member of H-PAD.*

*"How Racist Is the Florida Curriculum, Ask Leo and Layla"*
<https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/20/2188538/-How-Racist-is-the-Florida-Curriculum-Ask-Leo-and-Layla>
By *Alan Singer, **Daily Kos, *posted August 20
*Eviscerates a sample video in the "PragerU" cartoon series approved this
summer by the Florida Department of Education for use in elementary
schools. This sample features a cartoon version of Frederick Douglass whose
words directly contradict the actual words and deeds of the real Douglass.
The author is a historian and director of social studies education programs
at Hofstra University. *

*"Korean Armistice, Ukrainian Cease-Fire"
<https://fpif.org/korean-armistice-ukrainian-ceasefire>*
By *John Feffer, **Foreign Policy in Focus,* posted August 16
*The armistice that ended fighting in Korea turned 70 years old this
summer. This essay ponders parallels and differences between Korea in 1953
and Ukraine today. The author is director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the
Institute for Policy Studies. *

*"As Ukraine Uses Cluster Munitions, a 50-Year-Old Lesson It Must Remember"*
<https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/15/a-50-year-old-lesson-for-ukraines-use-of-cluster-munitions>
By *Jim Laurie, **Al Jazeera, *posted August 15
*"The US stopped bombing half a century ago. But Cambodians are still dying
from the 'bombies' that litter their land." The author is a writer and
broadcaster who has specialized in Asia for more than fifty years. He
estimates that "*somewhere between 9 and 27 million submunitions in
Indochina remain unexploded today."

*"The Biggest Vietnam War Story That Americans Don't Talk About"*
<https://archive.ph/OyzgT>
By *John Summers, **Boston Globe, *posted August 11
*On the long silence over the more than 300,000 South Korean mercenary
troops in Vietnam (paid for by the US) and the massacres committed by many
of their units. The author is a historian and cultural critic who has
taught history at Columbia and Harvard universities and Boston College.*

*"How Israel Occupied Itself: The Way the Crisis on the West Bank Became
the Crisis in Israel Itself"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/how-israel-occupied-itself>
By *Juan Cole, **TomDispatch, *posted August 10
*Attributes the Netanyahu government's push to limit judicial autonomy to a
desire "to ensure that the courts won’t be able to interfere with their
plans to vastly increase the number of Israeli squatter-settlements on
Palestinian land on the West Bank and perhaps someday soon simply annex
that occupied territory."* *The author teaches Middle East history at the
University of Michigan.*

*"78th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the
Record"*
<https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2023-08-07/78th-anniversary-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-revisiting>
By the *National Security Archive, *posted August 7
*Declassified documents on radiation sickness from the first atomic
bombings - what was known at the time and the efforts of US officials such
as General Leslie Groves to minimize the amount of suffering.  *

*"The Past Isn't Dead: Teaching the Truth about America's Racial History Is
Critical"*
<https://www.salon.com/2023/08/06/the-past-isnt-dead-teaching-the-truth-about-americas-racial-history-is-critical>
By *Caled Elfenbein, **Salon, *posted August 6
*On continuity between the violent segregation typified by Bull Connor in
Birmingham in the 1960s and present-day legislative efforts to restrict
black voting, facilitated by the Supreme Court's* Shelby* decision (2013)
weakening the Voting Rights Act. The author teaches history and religious
studies at Grinnell College.*

*"The Forever War's Forever Legacy"*
<https://tomdispatch.com/the-forever-wars-forever-legacy>
By *Karen J. Greenberg, **TomDispatch, *posted August 1
*Illuminates a report issued this summer by the UN Human Right Commission
on the past and present of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay. The author is a
historian and director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law
School. She has been reporting on Guantanamo for 18 years, since early in
its history.*

*"Shock and Awe 20 Years Later: The Iraq War in the History of U.S. Empire"*
<https://www.processhistory.org/quadri-the-iraq-war-in-the-history-of-us-empire>
By Zaynad Quadri, *Process *(blog of the Organization of American
Historians), posted August 1
*"Today, as the war drums become ever louder in the American political
establishment, with China and Russia now designated the primary threats to
U.S. national security, it is essential to be clear-eyed about the recent
past, and appropriately critical of the global American imperial project."
The author is a postdoctoral fellow in International Security Studies at
Ohio State Univesity. *

*"The Profiteers of Armageddon: Oppenheimer and the Birth of the
Nuclear-Industrial Complex"
<https://tomdispatch.com/the-profiteers-of-armageddon/>*
By *William D. Hartung, **TomDispatch, *posted July 30
*An essay on the hit movie *Oppenheimer *featuring an issue left to one
side by the film. "Neither the film nor the discussion sparked by it has
explored one of the most important reasons for the continued existence of
nuclear weapons — the profits it yields the participants in America’s
massive nuclear-industrial complex." The author is a senior research fellow
at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. *

*"The Myth of Progress in Voting Rights"*
<https://portside.org/2023-07-27/myth-progress-voting-rights>
By *Van Gosse, **Portside, *posted July 26
*A short refutation of the widespread belief that the post-Revolution
decades in the US brought a steady broadening of the electorate. " Let's
get rid of our myths of slow but inevitable progress and get down to the
hard work of securing the right to vote for everyone. *
*The author teaches US history at Franklin and Marshall University and is
co-chair of the H-PAD Steering Committee. *

*Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for suggesting one or
more of the above articles. Suggestions can be sent to
jimobrien48 at gmail.com <jimobrien48 at gmail.com>.*
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