Saturday
Jun072008
Let the Resurrection Begin
Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 8:56AM;)
Hillary Clinton's moving and brilliant speech today cemented an independent place for herself and feminists in general in the unfolding historical drama of the 2008 presidential election.
Guantanamo's Death Row
The Threat of an Imperial Presidency
Earth Night
Charges Dropped Against Alex Sanchez
Guantanamo's Death Row
End the Guantanamo hunger strike and restart the stalled peace talks with the Taliban. Continue reading...
The Threat of an Imperial Presidency
Hearings to reform of the 2001 AUMF and the 1973 WPR could not be more urgent. Continue reading...
Earth Night
After 43 years of Earth Days, it is past time to contemplate the possible coming of Earth Night. Continue reading...
Charges Dropped Against Alex Sanchez
Prosecutors knowingly fed false evidence to the grand jury, and failed to admit that their case was wrong on the facts. Continue reading...
The Peace Exchange Bulletin
Published by Tom Hayden, The Peace Exchange Bulletin is a reader-supported journal, critically following the Pentagon's Long War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, as well as the failed U.S. wars on drugs and gangs, and U.S. military responses to nationalism and poverty around the world.
Sunday
May252008
Mixed Blessing
;)
In Miami recently, Barack Obama called for new Latin American policies in his first major policy declaration towards the region. The speech was classic Obama: substantive, centrist, subtle and pragmatic, above all drawing a sharp difference between Obama's support for "direct diplomacy" versus John McCain's status quo policies towards Cuba and the region. As a measure of how far the anti-Castro Cubans have shifted towards the center, Obama's speech was praised by his hosts, the Cuban American National Foundation.
Thursday
Jun072007
Thom Hartmann talks with Tom Hayden and Frances Moore Lappé
Transcript from Thom Hartmann interviewing Tom Hayden and Frances Moore Lappé at the Dubrovnik Conference: Transforming Culture: From Empire to Global Community Dubrovnik, Croatia, broadcasting live from the studios of Radio Dubrovnik, Croatian Radio.
Tuesday
Jun012004
'Homies Were Burning Alive'
In first-ever interviews, representatives of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang in Honduras this week described how security forces were to blame for the May 17 prison fire that killed 105 of those they call their homeboys. In addition to starting the fire, police and prison guards allegedly kept the facility's gates locked for over an hour while trapped inmates were burnt alive or died from smoke inhalation.
Monday
May172004
When Bonesmen Fight
;)
Four decades after the egalitarian '60s and some 225 years since the Declaration of Independence, American voters must choose between two members of an elite secret society. The lesson is that aristocracy still survives democracy.
Tuesday
Jan272004
Post-Marx From Mumbai
The close of this year's World Social Forum poses an opportunity to explore the organizational and ideological challenges that lie ahead, and to decide how the movement will push forward with its goals.
Wednesday
Jan072004
Harvard and Miami
In November four Harvard undergraduates were arrested in Miami for failing to disperse from a protest, although they were walking backwards on a sidewalk, hands over their heads, shouting “we are dispersing.” Only a George Orwell, with his ironic sense of officialspeak, could have conjured such a scene. The students were arrested for following orders.
Monday
Dec012003
FTAA Ship Runs Aground, But Party Goes On
The Miami summit left many questions in its wake, like, what's up with Brazil, and what's next for the global justice movement?
Friday
Nov212003
Arresting The Future
Even as FTAA protestors and trade ministers poured out of town in droves, the city's Robo-Cops continued to demonstrate the 'Miami model' of suppression -- with pepper spray, rubber bullets and drawn weapons.
Thursday
Nov202003
Miami Vice
The FTAA summit began with a paranoid police force attacking peaceful demonstrators. A sudden decision to end the event a day early has averted a possibly bloodier ending.