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Tom Hayden : Secrecy Protests Split American Elites
Image from ElectronicFrontierFoundation / Flickr. Protests against secrecy drive elites into debate A virtual empire composed of distant and interconnected private and public elites contradicts representative democracy as virtually all Americans understand it. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Trayvon Martin and the Super-Predator Myth
Photo by Joshua Trujillo / AP Images / SeattlePI.com The super-predator myth: Trayvon died for our sins The evidence of a violently divided America can be understood in the failure of the criminal justice system, where rationality and objectivity are … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Is Obama Really in Control?
This plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to land in Vienna despite Obama’s earlier comment that he “wouldn’t scramble jets against a 29 year old hacker.” Photo by Andres Gutierrez / AP. Refs being ‘worked’? Does Obama control … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Does Egyptian Coup Augur an Arab Winter?
Throngs in Cairo celebrate the military’s overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, July 3, 2013. Photo by Amr Nabil / AP. An Arab winter?The coup in Egypt If Morsi couldn’t create a new center, the reason might not have been because he … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : The Right-Wing War on Democracy
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, 1965. Photo from AP. The right-wing war on democratic rights:Voting rights, immigration reform imperiled Lost in both the partisan spin and rhetorical legalisms is that the scale of political power is … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Can Obama ‘Rein In’ His Presidency?
Obama: Who’s making the call? Image from TomHayden.com. Competing forces at play:Can Obama ‘rein in’ his presidency? Obama often follows a confusing pattern of leaning toward the military’s preference while planning in his private chambers to later change course. By … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, Counterterrorism, Drone Warfare, JFK, Obama Foreign Policy, Pentagon, Public Opinion, Tom Hayden, U.S. Military
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Tom Hayden : Is President Taking New Tack on Counterterrorism?
President Obama speaks about his administration’s counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, May 23, 2013. Photo by Larry Downing / Reuters. Obama responding to critics: Tide turning on counterterrorism secrecy While defending his military policies as constitutional, … Continue reading
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Tagged Counterterrorism, Drone Warfare, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Medea Benjamin, Obama Foreign Policy, Tom Hayden
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Tom Hayden : Earth Night
Is ‘Earth Night’ coming? Image from Wikimedia Commons. Earth Night Al Gore wrote in 1992, ‘the maximum that is politically feasible still falls short of the minimum that is truly effective.’ Making it ‘politically feasible’ to tackle extreme climate change … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore, Climate Change, Earth Day, Environment, Global Warming, Jerry Brown, Tom Hayden
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Tom Hayden : Pentagon Calls Civilian Drone Casualties ‘Bug Splat’
Splat from NuUniform.Drone policy attacked in top think tank report Bug splat!That’s what the Pentagon calls civilian casualties in drone attacks. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | January 17, 2013 The Council on Foreign Relations issued a report … Continue reading
Eyeless in Gaza By Tom Hayden / The Rag Blog / November 21, 2012 The Israeli political establishment — and donors like Sheldon Adelson and the militant neo-conservatives — seem to be eyeless in Gaza, in the phrase of Aldous … Continue reading
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Tom Hayden : Sticking It to Wall Street
The fallen bull. Image from Tumblr.A legacy of Occupy: Sticking it to Wall Street The Occupy movement energized a vanguard of voters to become more populist in their demands. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | November 15, 2012 … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Dark-Skinned Democracy Wins in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrates with a crowd of supporters after winning reelection. Photo by Juan Barreto / Getty Images.Chavez’ Bolivarian Revolution: Dark-skinned democracywins in Venezuela Modern liberals see something ominous in the Chavez mandate. They frequently opine that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Leftists, Nicaragua, Tom Hayden, U.S. Foreign Policy
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