{"id":1808,"date":"2009-09-09T21:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T05:30:10","slug":"haw-historians-against-the-war-recommended-articles-on-torture-afghanistanvietnam-honduras-my-lailockerbie-and-the-drug-war-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2009\/09\/haw-historians-against-the-war-recommended-articles-on-torture-afghanistanvietnam-honduras-my-lailockerbie-and-the-drug-war-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"HAW (Historians Against The War) recommended articles on torture, Afghanistan\/Vietnam, Honduras, My Lai\/Lockerbie, and the drug war in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are a collection of current articles available on the web that provide historical background on issues relevant to concerns taken up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historiansagainstwar.org\">Historians Against the War<\/a>, as recommended by the HAW Steering Committee.<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2009\/08\/25\/cole\/index.html\"><br \/>\n\u201cOur Laws Condone Torture\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Juan Cole in Salon.com, posted September 8<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/116462.html\"><br \/>\n\u201cThe Phoenix Program Was a Disaster in Vietnam and Would Be in Afghanistan&#8211;And the NYT Should Know That\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jeremy Kuzmarov, History News Network, posted September 7<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amconmag.com\/article\/2009\/oct\/01\/00018\/\">\u201cThese Colors Run Red!: The U.S. Follows the Soviet Union into Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Andrew J. Bacevic, The American Conservative, October 1, 2009 issue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090831\/grandin\">\u201cBattle for Honduras\u2014and the Region\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Greg Grandin, The Nation, August 31 issue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175108\/nick_turse_from_my_lai_to_lockerbie\">\u201cFrom My Lai to Lockerbie\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com, posted August 30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/20\/saigon_2009\">\u201cSaigon 2009: Afghanistan Is Today&#8217;s Vietnam. No Question Mark Needed.\u201d <\/a><br \/>\nBy Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason, foreignpolicy.com, posted August 20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/20090820_vietnams_lesson_lost_in_afghanistan\">\u201cLesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Stanley Kutler, Truthdig, posted August 20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/114765.html\">\u201cIs Obama Aware of the History of Failure that Marks Our Drug War in Latin America?\u201d<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jeremy Kuzmarov, History News Network, posted August 17<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this week&#8217;s &#8220;Life during Wartime&#8221; cartoon by Josh Brown, posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historiansagainstwar.org\">HAW home page<\/a>, offers a chilling parallel between Afghanistan and Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are a collection of current articles available on the web that provide historical background on issues relevant to concerns taken up by Historians Against the War, as recommended by the HAW Steering Committee. \u201cOur Laws Condone Torture\u201d By Juan Cole in Salon.com, posted September 8 \u201cThe Phoenix Program Was a Disaster in Vietnam and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,390],"tags":[5196,5192,3407,4308,5194,5193,5195],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-miscellaneous","tag-afghanistan","tag-drug-war","tag-historians-against-the-war","tag-honduras","tag-lockerbie","tag-my-lai","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}