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Znet Article Hayden: Obama's Dinosaur in Trinidad

Znet Article, April, 20 2009 Tom Hayden
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It's becoming a pattern: whenever Barack Obama implements a campaign pledge, the dinosaurs used to running things push back. The latest dinosaur to undercut the president's gestures is Jeffrey Davidow, US coordinator of the Trinidad meeting, who c...

Znet Article Hayden: Progressive Think Tank Tells Obama to Escalate in Afghanistan?

Znet Article, March, 29 2009 Tom Hayden
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The Center for American Progress has positioned itself as a "progressive" Washington think tank, especially suited to channel new thinking and expertise into the Obama administration. It therefore is deeply disappointing that CAP has issued a call...

Znet Article Hayden: Rage Is Good

Znet Article, March, 10 2009 Tom Hayden
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Hopefully, the demonstrations planned on Wall Street April 4 by United for Peace and Justice and other groups will contribute to the global uprising. Our president and Congress need the pressure.

Znet Article Hayden: Afghan War: A Time of Great Discontent Looming

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Tom Hayden
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On January 21, President Barack Obama will take personal responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan launched under President Bush. The Afghan- Pakistan war is uniquely Democratic in origin, however. Since John Kerry's 2004 campaign, h...

Znet Article Hayden: Obama-McCain Debate

Znet Article, September, 24 2008 Tom Hayden
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Talking points for activists foreign and national security policy...

Znet Article Hayden: Key Task: Isolate and Divide the Right

Znet Article, September, 18 2008 Tom Hayden
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A principle reason for Progressives For Obama is so that we can say things that the Obama campaign cannot or will not say.

Znet Article Hayden: The Problem Is Empire

Znet Article, September, 03 2008 Tom Hayden
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Let me tell you some of my story and lessons I have learned over these past five decades. I have always tried to improve my country, always trying from the places around me...

Znet Article Hayden: Obama: Transformational President or Another Disappointment?

Znet Article, August, 21 2008 Tom Hayden
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'Whether he wins or loses, the vast movement inspired by Obama will become the next generation of American social activists'

Znet Article Hayden: The Defunding of the Peace Movement

Znet Article, August, 17 2008 Tom Hayden
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Last December I wrote an optimistic cover story for The Nation predicting that "peace advocates will likely have the best funded antiwar message in history" during the coming election year, as "tens of millions of dollars will be raised for voter ...

Znet Article Hayden: Afghanistan, Pakistan & Obama

Znet Article, July, 16 2008 Tom Hayden
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Barack Obama restated his Iraq phased withdrawal play in response to public questioning today but committed himself to expanding the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Znet Article Hayden: No Retreat: If you Want to Win, Stop the War! Barack at Risk

Znet Article, July, 06 2008 Tom Hayden
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Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama’s core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned by the Republicans, the mainstream media, and the antiwar movemen...

Znet Article Hayden: Obama and RFK

Znet Article, June, 07 2008 Tom Hayden
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For one who has experienced both eras, the current movement for Barack Obama has achieved a living remembrance of Bobby Kennedy's campaign in the week when RFK's murder is painfully remembered.

Znet Article Hayden: Z-Net Interview with Tom Hayden on the publication of Writings for Democratic Society

Znet Article, May, 21 2008 Tom Hayden
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New book interview...

Znet Article Hayden: An Appeal to Barack Obama

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Tom Hayden
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Barack, I thought Hillary Clinton was known as the Great Triangulator, but you are learning well. The problem with setting up false polarities to position yourself in the “center”, however, is that it’s unproductive both politically and intellect...

Znet Article Bennis: Pressing Obama On The War: An Exchange

Znet Article, April, 03 2008 Phyllis Bennis
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This is an incredibly important and powerful call. I write as an individual, without connection to IPS or any organization...

Znet Article Hayden: Iraq Crisis Threatens Bush-Petraeus “Surge” Strategy As Bankrupt

Znet Article, March, 31 2008 Tom Hayden
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To quell the Sunni insurgency and create an image of gradual progress, the US has insisted provincial elections be held in Iraq this October, one month before the American elections...

Znet Article Hayden: Progressives for Obama

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...

Znet Article Hayden: Progressives for Obama

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...

Znet Article Hayden: Progressives for Obama

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Tom Hayden
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We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country...

Znet Article Hayden: Are the Democrats Proposing Peace, or Counter-Insurgency Without End?

Znet Article, January, 25 2008 Tom Hayden
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Pushed by powerful voter sentiment, the leading Democratic presidential candidates all talk of ending the Iraq war, and the November election seems headed toward a showdown with a Republican committed to a long-term war and occupation.

Znet Article Hayden: New Hampshire Anti-War Lessons, 1968-2008

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Tom Hayden
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I am wondering if anyone in New Hampshire even remembered the McCarthy campaign in the blur that was last week in New Hampshire.

Znet Article Hayden: Why Barack Should De-Escalate on Pakistan

Znet Article, January, 08 2008 Tom Hayden
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As predicted, Barack Obama's advocacy of unilateral military intervention in Pakistan if there is "actionable intelligence" against al-Qaeda is giving legitimacy to the Bush administration's gathering plan for an escalation.

Znet Article Hayden: An Appeal to Barack Obama

Znet Article, January, 04 2008 Tom Hayden
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Barack, I thought Hillary Clinton was known as the Great Triangulator, but you are learning well. The problem with setting up false polarities to position yourself in the “center”, however, is that it’s unproductive both politically and intellect...

Znet Article Hayden: Rating The Presidential Candidates On Iraq

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Tom Hayden
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While most peace activists are evaluating the Democrats, I would rank Rudolph Giuliani as the most dangerous of all the presidential candidates in a long while, because his Iraq and Iran policies are the work of the most hawkish neo-conservatives...

Znet Article Hayden: Northern Irish, South Africa Leaders in Secret Peace Discussion with Iraqi Parties

Znet Article, October, 01 2007 Tom Hayden
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  Sunni and Shi'a leaders began a potential peace process at secret meetings with leaders of the new Northern Ireland and South Africa one month, signing draft set of principles which resemble the protocols that guided the peace settlements ...

Znet Article Hayden: The Baker Agenda: Troops out, Oil Companies in?

Znet Article, December, 10 2006 Tom Hayden
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Recommendations 62 and 63 confirm that control of Iraqi oil is a fundamental premise of Administration policy. This was denied in the first years of the war, but this week the President confirmed his belief that Islamic extremists will “ga...

Znet Article Hayden: Anti-War Movement Deserves Some Credit

Znet Article, November, 28 2006 Tom Hayden
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Although rarely credited, the anti-war movement has been a major factor in mobilizing a majority of the American public to oppose the occupation and killing in Iraq. To many observers, the movement seems feckless and marginal, its rallies an inc...

Znet Article Hayden: U.S. Retreat from Iraq?

Znet Article, November, 23 2006 Tom Hayden
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According to credible Iraqi sources in London and Amman, a secret story of America's diplomatic exit strategy from Iraq is rapidly unfolding. The key events include: First, James Baker told one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers that Tariq Aziz, former ...

Znet Article Hayden: Blind To Iraq's Majority

Znet Article, October, 06 2006 Tom Hayden
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While the recent buzz in Washington is about partitioning Iraq into ethnic enclaves, completely ignored is the fact that most Iraqis, and perhaps a majority of the Iraqi parliament, wants America to set an immediate deadline for military withdrawa...

Znet Article Hayden: A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud

Znet Article, September, 10 2006 Tom Hayden
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'Let's try to imagine what Karl Marx would be doing today.' It was Sunday, May 21st, and my host posing the question was Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban National Assembly. It was Alarcon's 69th birthday, and I was having difficulty unders...

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