Articles by Tom Hayden
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Jeremy Scahill Deserves Academy Award, Pulitzer
Tom Hayden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
After watching Jeremy Scahill’s film, Dirty Wars, and reading his book of the same name, my considered opinion is that he should be nominated for an Academy Award and considered for a Pulitzer Prize. Scahill joins Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales and MIchael Moore in achieving the successful rise of the alternative media to mainstream impact in the past decade.
→ read full articleRep. Peter King’s Dangerous Overreaction to WikiLeaks
Tom Hayden - The Peace and Justice Resource Center,
6 Dec 2010
The current controversy is less about national security than about securing the official reputations of officials conducting secret warfare. As a result of the WikiLeaks documents, the American public has learned, for example, that: () our government is deceiving the public and Congress by denying our secret bombing of Yemen; () our Special Forces are in Pakistan; () the CIA has directed a secret army in Afghanistan; () there is a secret Task Force 373 conducting assassinations in Afghanistan. These revelations do no damage to our national security. Instead, they helpfully add to public and Congressional awareness of improper and arguably illegal behavior undertaken under the cover of secrecy.
→ read full articleCOUNTERTERRORISM AND COUNTERINSURGENCY ARE DEAD ENDS, EXIT STRATEGY IS THE REAL ALTERNATIVE IN AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND IRAQ
Tom Hayden,
28 Oct 2009
Last night I participated in a Chicago forum with a retired US general who directs a large "capacity building" program on many battlegrounds of The Long War. It was a great dialogue, but I was chilled by one point he made, because I hear it all the time within national security circles. He said that […]
→ read full articleZELAYA SPEAKS
Tom Hayden,
10 Sep 2009
In a significant development in hemispheric relations, the Obama admininstration yesterday condemned the June 28 Honduras coup d’état more strongly than ever, announced the cutoff of additional millions in economic aid and declared it would not accept the legitimacy of elections under the auspices of the coup government. In an interview shortly after his meeting […]
→ read full articleTEN MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO OPPOSE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
Tom Hayden,
12 May 2009
Editor’s Note: Peace activist Tom Hayden adds his ideas to Z.P. Heller’s April 8 piece, Ten Things You Can Do to Oppose the War in Afghanistan. This early period of Obama’s presidency is an opportunity to rebuild Afghanistan. It is a chance to become clearer than "out now," while still using the same force in […]
→ read full articleTHE PROBLEM IS EMPIRE
Tom Hayden,
14 Sep 2008
We will have to go back to the lessons Roman and British empires tolearn the painful lessons of imperial overextension. The lessons inblood bravely shed in lost or dubious causes. The lesson of a weakenedcapacity to fund healthcare, education, our children’s futures. Thelesson that democracy is diminished as the secrecy of the warmakingstate expands. The […]
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