To members and friends of Historians Against the War,<\/p>\n
Here are some notes, followed by our latest more-or-less biweekly listing of recent articles of interest.<\/p>\n
1. Two authors who have frequently been featured in our listings of \u201carticles of interest\u201d have come out with new books this summer. Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich\u2019s latest book is Washington Rules: America\u2019s Path to Permanent War (Metropolitan Books), and Tom Engelhardt\u2019s new book, based on his \u201cTomDispatch\u201d e-mailings (see two articles cited below) is The American Way of War: How Bush\u2019s Wars Became Obama\u2019s (Haymarket Books).<\/p>\n
2. Tom Hayden has initiated an online petition supporting WikiLeaks at http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/petition\/38165.html. The preamble says, \u201cWe believe that WikiLeaks and those whistleblowers who declassify documents in a time of secret war should be welcomed as defenders of democracy, not demonized as criminals. We support their First Amendment rights and welcome their continued disobedience in response to a long train of official deception.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recent Articles of Interest<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Guns of August: Lowering the Flag on the American Century\u201d<\/a> \u201cWikiLeaks and War Crimes\u201d<\/a> \u201c\u2018Blood on Our Hands\u2019\u201d<\/a> \u201cHiroshima and Nagasaki: The Political Legacy to the United States\u201d<\/a> \u201cConfronting a Mindset\u201d<\/a> \u201c65 Years after Hiroshima: Truman\u2019s Choices\u201d<\/a> \u201cWhose Blood, Whose Hands: Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq\u201d<\/a> \u201cWhat\u2019s the War About?\u201d<\/a>
\nBy Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com, posted August 17<\/p>\n
\nBy Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, posted August 12<\/p>\n
\nBy Dahr Jamail, Truth-Out.org, posted August 11
\nOn the US invasion of Iraq<\/p>\n
\nBy Herbert P. Bix, Z-Net, posted August 6
\nThe author won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan<\/p>\n
\nBy Susan Galleymore, CounterPunch.org, posted August 5
\nOn the Hiroshima bombing and the continued testing of nuclear weapons<\/p>\n
\nBy Stanley Kutler, Truthdig.com, posted August 6
\nThe author is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n
\nBy Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, posted August 5
\nOn the Wikileaks revelations<\/p>\n
\nBy William Blum, CounterPunch.org, posted August 5
\nOn September 11 and Afghanistan<\/p>\n