Tom H. Hastings (pcwtom@gmail.com) is Director of PeaceVoice (a program of the Oregon Peace Institute), core faculty in the Portland State University Conflict Resolution graduate program, founder of Whitefeather House Portland Catholic Worker, convicted nonviolent Plowshares felon (twice), and author of several books on nonviolence.

Blog Entries by Tom H. Hastings

We Can't Afford Health Care? You lie!

Posted September 12, 2009 | 11:26 AM (EST)


We see the spectacle of the US Congress unable to manage decent health care reform that will actually enable the American citizenry to join the rest of the industrialized world in having health care for all. The problems, it is clear, come from those who are lying.

Death panels? That's...

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Nukes versus Humanity

1 Comments | Posted September 7, 2009 | 10:58 AM (EST)


A number of nuclear weapons issues (renewing the non-proliferation treaty, curbing global proliferation, spending vast sums on making and maintaining nukes) are becoming hotter. We can't seem to escape their lethal embrace.

Why haven't we rid humankind of nuclear weapons? These are the weapons that can end the grand evolutionary...

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Recovering to Death

4 Comments | Posted September 5, 2009 | 03:03 PM (EST)


Jumbo shrimp. Buy and save. Jobless recovery. Americans are on Full Oxymoron Alert these days, as we read and hear about this "jobless recovery." Recovery for whom?

The unemployment rate is high and growing higher, nearing an official 10 percent--which is always lower than the reality of impoverished underemployed and...

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