15 Articles

Saturday, July 5, 2008
No Retreat: If you Want to Win, Stop the War! Barack at Risk
(12 comments) Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama's core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned by the Republicans, the mainstream media, and the antiwar movement. He could put his candidacy at risk if his audacity continues to shrivel.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Clinton in Denial of Obama Nomination. Why?
(3 comments) There's a cleft, perhaps even a political schizophrenia, within Hillary Clinton that explains her refusal on election night to recognize defeat.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Turning Point for Obama, Limbaugh Winning Indiana for Hillary
(1 comments) Barack got his game back. Hillary needs a reality check. Barack had the voters at his back against all the forces trying to bring him down. He held his lead in NC, and only the Rush Limbaugh Republican vote stands between Barack and victory in Indiana. Hillary needed two wins. She failed utterly. But she will not stop, not on her own. The superdelegates should intervene tomorrow to send Hillary a message. Out now!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
(9 comments) For Tom Hayden's wife Barbara, Hillary has become the screech on the blackboard. From First Lady to Lady Macbeth.

Saturday, March 8, 2008
The New Phase for Obama, Clinton and the Rest of Us
(2 comments) Obama must get tougher without contradicting the high standards he is setting for himself. There are two lines he can pursue: His campaign can demand immediate disclosure of the Clinton tax returns, White House and Library documents that will show where Hillary Clinton's $5 million donation came from, and whether Bill Clinton has used his influence in cases like the uranium contract with Kazakhstan for a Clinton donor...

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Edwards First Major Candidate Calling for All Troops Out, Breaks with Establishment Consensus on Iraq
(28 comments) One day before the Iowa caucuses, John Edwards has become the first major presidential candidate to favor withdrawing all American troops, including advisers, from Iraq, doing so in response to queries from a leading military correspondent, the New York Times' Michael Gordon.

Sunday, November 11, 2007
An Appeal to Barack Obama

Sunday, September 9, 2007
Ending the War in 2009
The illusion is that we are preventing a sectarian civil war when the reality is that, in the best British tradition, we have been fomenting and feeding a civil war which will fragment, subdivide and eliminate the basis of Arab nationalism in Iraq.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Anti-War Dynamic Accelerating, Bush Power Dropping
(3 comments) The implosion of the White House Iraq policy is unfolding on three tracks: on the ground in Iraq, in the clash between Democrats and Republicans over withdrawal, and in the widening scandals weakening the presidency itself.

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Ending It: How to End the Iraq War and Occupation
Despite promises to the contrary, the US has placed in power a sectarian coalition of Shi'as and Kurds who wield power through the Badr militia and the peshmerga. The coalition is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the name of security. Instead of propping up a sectarian war regime, why not support a transitional peace regime reflecting the aspirations of most Iraqis?

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Documents Reveal Secret Talks Between U.S. and Armed Iraqi Resistance
It is not for holiday purposes that George Bush and Condoleeza Rice are meeting next week with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Amman while Dick Cheney rushes to Saudi Arabia. The only question being kept from the American people is what the high-level talks are about.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Iraq Wins the Election, What Now?
As the campaign began, consultants and bigwigs of both parties sought to keep Iraq from becoming an election issue. To their credit, the American voters disagreed, insisted on changing course, and let Iraq become the critical factor in overthrowing a rigged Republican majority. Now what?

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Withdraw from Iraq Or Carve It Up?
(1 comments) The big new buzz on Capitol Hill is partitioning Iraq into three ethnic enclaves,

Sunday, August 13, 2006
See You At Armageddon?
(1 comments) This is about the November 2006 election, Armageddon for Republicans who fear losing their monopolistic grip on the Congress, and about the 2008 election which will be a referendum on what the neo-conservatives have wrought. This is about the fate of the planet for this generation. Who has a plan?

Monday, July 24, 2006
Tom Hayden: Things Come 'Round in Mideast
What I fear is that the progress of the American peace movement against the Iraq war will be diverted and undermined, at least for now, by the entry of Israel from the sidelines into the center of the equation. What I fear is the rehabilitation of the discredited U.S. neoconservative agenda to ignite a larger war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.