To members and friends of Historians Against the War,
1. The conference “Looking Back, Moving Forward: War Resisters in North America,” endorsed by Historians Against the War and other groups, takes place September 23-24 (Friday evening and all day Saturday) at Steelworkers Hall in Toronto. The Web site is http://warresistersconference.activehistory.ca, and there is a poster for the conference at http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/hawconf/warresisters/posterletter.pdf. Questions can be sent to Luke Stewart at l5stewar@uwaterloo.ca (the first character is the letter “l,” not the numeral one.
2. Also, registration has begun for the Washington DC conference “Peace in Asia and the Pacific: Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization,” of which HAW is a co-sponsor. It will be held at American University on September 21-22 and will feature knowledgeable speakers on the major countries in the region as well as US policy. The American Friends Service Committee initiated the conference. The Web site (still a work in progress) is http://afsc.org/peace-asia-pacific-conference.
3. The Radical History Review has just published a special issue entitled “Historicizing 9/11”; contents are listed at http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/current. None of the articles is included in the list below because the RHR is published by Duke University Press, whose journals are “gated”: on-line access is mainly by way of institutional subscriptions.
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
“Let’s Cancel 9/11: Bury the War State’s Blank Check at Sea”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175437
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted September 8
“Operation Torture”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/08/operation-torture
By Vijay Prashad, CounterPunch.org, posted September 8
The author teaches history at Trinity College
“Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175436
By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com, posted September 6
“How Not to Commemorate 9/11”
http://truthdig.com/report/item/how_not_to_commemorate_9_11_20110906
By Stanley Kutler, Truthdig.com, posted September 6
The author is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin
“The CIA and the Drones: How the Agency Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine'”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/06/the-cia-and-the-drones
By Gareth Porter, CounterPunch.org, posted September 6
“Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!”
http://hnn.us/articles/9-5-11/kansas-city-here-it-comes-a-new-nuclear-weapons-plant.html
By Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network, posted September 5
The author is a professor of history emeritus at SUNY Albany
“The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years?”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/02/the-911-conspiracists-vindicated-after-all-these-years/
By Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch.org, posted September 2
This article is a lengthy refutation of inside-job conspiracy theories of the 9/11 attacks
“A Troubling Lesson from Libya: Don’t Give Up Nukes”
By Reza Sanati, Christian Science Monitor, posted August 30
“Epitaph forAnother September 11”
http://www.thenation.com/article/163056/epitaph-another-september-11
By Ariel Dorfman, The Nation, posted August 30
“MLK Would Be Against the Wars Today”
http://hnn.us/articles/8-29-11/mlk-would-be-against-the-war-today.html
By William Loren Katz, History News Network, posted August 29
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