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Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden is the author of The Other Side (1966, with Staughton Lynd), The Love of Possession Is a Disease With Them (1972), Ending the War in Iraq (2007) and Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader (2008).

Currently

  • Maliki's Obama Endorsement

    July 19, 2008

    In a huge setback for John McCain and the Bush Administration, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki endorses Barack Obama's timeline for withdrawal--and the presumptive Democratic nominee could reap a windfall.

  • Obama, Iraq and Afghanistan

    July 15, 2008

    Obama's plan to de-escalate the war in Iraq only to ramp up another in Afghanistan just might work. It could also entrap the US in an even wider quagmire.

  • Pentagon Fights Peace Majorities in US and Iraq

    July 13, 2008

    The electorates in both countries are threatening to topple the principal warmakers at the ballot box.

  • Barack at Risk

    July 5, 2008

    Barack Obama could put his entire candidacy at risk if his audacity on the war in Iraq continues to shrivel.

  • Meet the New Dr. Strangelove

    June 20, 2008

    His name is David Kilcullen, an Australian academic and military veteran, who seeks to impose a mad science of counterinsurgency on Iraq.

  • Let the Resurrection Begin

    June 7, 2008

    Hillary Clinton's moving speech cemented a place for herself and the feminist movement in the unfolding drama of the 2008 presidential election.

  • Mixed Blessing

    May 25, 2008

    Obama calls for direct dialogue and new trade deals with Latin America, but continued counterinsurgency in Columbia, tensions with Venezuela.

  • Clintons in Denial

    May 7, 2008

    Tuesday's elections show the Clintons are beyond persuasion or capable of thinking beyond their own interests.

  • Dreaming Obama in North Carolina

    April 23, 2008

    Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.

  • Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream

    April 22, 2008

    By trying to inflict maximum damage on Obama, she's threatening the Democratic Party's chances for the White House. Progressives need to intervene.

  • Progressives for Obama

    March 24, 2008

    The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.

  • Reviving Vietnam War Tactics

    March 13, 2008

    One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.

  • Washington-Based Antiwar Coalition Re-emerges

    February 28, 2008

    Targets McCain, Iraq costs.

  • A Meeting of Minds

    February 21, 2008

    Thursday's debate revealed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as solid progressives in sync with the broad base of the Democratic Party.

  • The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam

    February 21, 2008

    Thirty-two years after the war, Communist Vietnam is a bustling market economy awash in foreign capital and consumer goods. So was the war necessary?

  • 'End the War in 2009'

    February 20, 2008

    Barack Obama has hastened his timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, setting the stage for an election battle with John McCain and the forces of neoconservatism.

  • Antiwar Group Collapses

    February 9, 2008

    Tom Matzzie, leader of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, has resigned his position and dissolved a major and well-funded coalition of anti-war groups.

  • Florida and Michigan: Vote Again

    February 8, 2008

    To avoid convention disaster, the DNC should reset caucuses and primaries in Florida and Michigan.

  • Memo: Where Do the Democrats Stand on Iraq?

    January 30, 2008

    A deep look into how the candidates propose to bring the troops home and deal with the continuing military dilemma.

  • Endorsing Obama

    January 28, 2008

    The movement he's inspired holds the promise of a new cycle of activism, reform and fresh thinking. So I will support him through the inevitable storms ahead.

  • Anti-War Lessons From New Hampshire

    January 9, 2008

    How will Democratic candidates end the war? None of the scenarios offered to New Hampshire voters really addressed the issue.

  • Amid Silence, Terror War Escalates

    January 7, 2008

    Bush's "war on terror" is escalating without discussion or dissent amid the most open and democratic of American processes--the presidential debates.

  • Edwards Calls to End US Training Effort in Iraq

    January 2, 2008

    His new stance could have an impact on Iowa caucus-goers.

2007

  • Thoughts for the Weary on Ending the War

    December 6, 2007

    Press Democratic front-runners on the tough questions and prepare for a real fight with whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be.

  • How the Peace Movement Can Win

    November 29, 2007

    For war opponents, the election year is a moment of great opportunity--and peril. The challenge is to leverage antiwar sentiment into a victory for peace.

  • San Francisco No Longer Sweat-Free

    November 3, 2007

    The city has backed away from its longstanding commitment to avoid procuring city workers' garments from offshore sweatshops.

  • The Secret State of Torture

    October 5, 2007

    After professing to abhor torture, the Bush Justice Department secretly authorized it. And the consequences for us all are grave.

  • Northern Ireland, South Africa in Secret Iraq Peace Talks

    September 28, 2007

    Peacemakers from countries that have moved from sectarian strife towards national reconciliation met with Iraq Sunnis and Shi'as in an effort to resolved the crisis.

  • Prelude to a Police State in Iraq

    September 19, 2007

    Widespread corruption and human rights abuses among Iraqi security forces could make Baghdad the capital of a Shiite police state employing the classic methods of dirty war.

  • The Surge in Baghdad

    September 11, 2007

    In this web video from Robert Greenwald's BraveNew Films, Tom Hayden counts the human cost of the US troop surge, as measured in the ruined lives of Iraqi civilians.

  • The New Counterinsurgency

    September 6, 2007

    The Army's updated Field Manual draws on an old, blood-steeped tradition.

  • Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks

    July 14, 2007

    Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?

  • A Call to Bring All Troops Home

    June 24, 2007

    The Center for American Progress is calling to bring all combat forces--including trainers--home from Iraq.

2006

  • Iraq Is Dying

    August 9, 2006

    As an array of Iraqi leaders met with American peace activists this week in Amman, Jordan, a grim picture emerged of what the future will be, regardless of whether US troops stay or depart.

  • Shifting Winds on Iraq

    July 2, 2006

    Peace sentiments are rising among the American public and even in the much-divided Democrats. What does this mean for electoral politics and for the course of a war that seems to have no end in sight?

  • Hawks for Withdrawal

    May 17, 2006

    As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement?

  • New Day for Bolivia

    January 27, 2006

    The inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivia's first indigenous president opens a new era for Bolivia and a turning point for political, diplomactic and trade issues in the Americas.

  • Pacifying Iraq: Insurgent Scenarios

    January 10, 2006

    In informal but politically credible ways, factions of Iraq's armed national resistance are developing scenarios for an honorable withdrawal of US troops and a shared set of demands that could lead to peace.

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