Tom Hayden

A Hatchet Job and California's Hottest Assembly Race

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.27.2012

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"Torieistas" need to recognize that this seat does not belong to Sheila Kuehl, the L.A. political machine or any single group to give to Torie Osborn. The seat belongs to the diverse population that makes up the 50th Assembly district.

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Oy! The New "Fight to the Finish" to Save the "Soul" of Occupy

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.16.2012

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Political paranoia is always driven by what could happen, not, necessarily, what is happening. Can we learn from this destructive history of acrimony and sectarianism or are we doomed to repeat it?

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WATCH: Animal Activist Urges Jerry Brown To 'Stop And Think Of Sutter'

Carly Schwartz | Posted 03.25.2012

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Former state senator and animal activist Tom Hayden has put forth a commendable effort to tug right at our dear governor's heart strings. His secre...

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Tom Hayden to CA Gov. Brown: Don't Kill Animals to Close the State Budget Gap (VIDEO)

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Hayden Law, Animal Rescue, Tom Hayden, Christopher Sprinkle, Dog Park Media, Jerry Brown, Video, Politics News

Repealing the law would do away with all of these basic protections, consigning countless animals to death. Sadly, this heartless remedy is what passes for a practical solution in today's fiscal and political climate.

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Jane Fonda: 'I Knew I Would Die Married And Rich, But Not Whole'

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 01.18.2012

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Jane Fonda was featured on Oprah's Master Class Sunday, where she revealed how her divorce shaped her as a person. The 74-year-old legend recalled...

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Jane Fonda: The Private Life Of A Public Woman: 600 Pages Of What Feels Like The Whole Story

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 10.29.2011

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Google "Jane Fonda hate site" and you get 10 million results. She's a 73-year-old actress who had her last box office hit thirty years ago. So why is she hated?

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Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.04.2011

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There's irony in the fact that Paul Krassner sees "increasing insanity" in our current politics and culture. The 1960s activist whom the FBI once tagg...

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The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two thrilling new musical documentaries place great emphasis on the importance of a song's lyrics while paying homage to their creators.

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One Word: Obama's Nightmare Scenario, and Why It Hasn't Happened (Yet)

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Poor Barack Obama. If it weren't for all these geopolitical crises, he'd have some fairly decent-sounding news to spin.

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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune -- New Documentary Opens in Los Angeles

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kennedy's assassination, the ongoing turmoil of resistance to integration and the escalation of the Vietnam War gave the singers a new identity. At the center of the storm was Phil Ochs.

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HuffPost Review: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bowser's documentary shows Ochs to be driven by his political beliefs, shattered by the deaths of John F. Kennedy and disillusioned by the ineffectiveness of protest against the Vietnam War.

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"What Are You Reading?" Asked the LA Times Festival of Books

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a city known for its Hollywood glitz and climate-friendly outdoor living, what many don't know about Los Angeles is how much it reveres its book festival.

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It's Always a Bad Year to Get Out of Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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After 104 months of war, the last 12 of which saw the U.S. triple the number of troops in Afghanistan, attempted terror attacks against our country are at an all-time high.

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Withdrawing from Afghanistan: What's the Rest of Our Plan?

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's pretty much conventional wisdom at this point that we're going to have to negotiate with the Taliban. Washington, Kabul, and Islamabad will div...

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Forty Years After Chicago, We Have Not Found the Things We Lost

Judy Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Chicago Seven were very serious peace activists and were baited into a festival of confusion instead of a festival of life in Chicago in 1968, launched to take the focus off the war.

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Don Lemon & CNN: No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Can anyone tell me of any wall to wall on-site coverage of peace movement events over the past six years where the corporate press offered extensive air-time to listen to progressive leaders? I don't recall that ever happening. Do you?

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Obama vs. Clinton on Honduras?

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apparent differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are threatening to confuse American policy towards the coup in Honduras.

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Ex-Interrogators Are Mad as Hell About Torture, and They're Not Gonna Take Cheney Anymore

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

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More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.

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Vets Rally Behind McGovern's Bill for an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

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McGovern's Bill could give Congress the cajones to exercise some oversight, thereby keeping Obama from repeating the Bush administration's heinous mistakes in Iraq.

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Democrats and War Escalation

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Top Democrats and many prominent supporters - with vocal agreement, tactical quibbles or total silence - are assisting the escalation of the U.S. war ...

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The Sex Appeal of Congressional Oversight Hearings

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Russ Feingold, War, Bernie Sanders, Congressional Oversight Hearings, Tom Hayden, Rethink Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Where is the public outcry for congressional oversight hearings on the war in Afghanistan? Congress won't call for oversight hearings until we make them.

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Talk with the Taliban, Just Leave Your Troops at Home

ZP Heller | Posted 05.25.2011

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The administration won't be able to give a negotiated reconciliation real credence until it gets away from the perverse foreign policy thinking that couples diplomacy with military escalation.

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Tom Hayden Predicts Obama Will Lose

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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"An African-American candidate talking about economics versus a white war hero... You don't really think McCain is going to have to host a convention about how he's American, do you?"

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Barack and Bobby: Compare and Contrast; and, Obama-Clinton as Lennon-McCartney circa 1970

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bobby Kennedy was the ultimate insider, the product of wealth and power. Obama's is doing the opposite: He's climbing up the mountain. Where RFK was the ultimate insider, he's the ultimate outsider.

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Former Radical Tom Hayden Details Clinton's 60s Past

ABC's Political Punch | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

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In The Nation, hayden former 60s radical Tom Hayden -- in an essay called "Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream" -- hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, fo...

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