Posts Tagged ‘ Tom H. Hastings ’

DOD WOE: The Pentagon’s War on the Earth

August 8, 2016

TOM H. HASTINGS - We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces—and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices—also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil...

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Posted in Analysis, August 2016 | No Comments »

Keep Your Guns But Repeal the Second Amendment

July 12, 2016

TOM H. HASTINGS - My real point on the Second Amendment is that it effectively blocks sane control of weaponry. Repealing the Second Amendment would not affect anything that most gun owners feel is desirable. But the Second Amendment as interpreted by the Supremes does make it possible for the gun industry, through its...

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Posted in Analysis, July 2016 | No Comments »

Time for a Nonviolent Assault on Our Blood-Stained Congress

June 16, 2016
Time for a Nonviolent Assault on Our Blood-Stained Congress

TOM H. HASTINGS - After the horrific shooting in Orlando there are some facts we might want to consider.

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Posted in Analysis, June 2016 | No Comments »

Yes to Assertive, No to Aggressive

May 23, 2016
Yes to Assertive, No to Aggressive

TOM H. HASTINGS - I teach and write in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a special focus on strategic nonviolence. It is a rich field, growing in its scholarship and its widespread usage. I’m so enthused by this—the more we wage our conflicts with nonviolence the lower the costs. Counting the...

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Posted in Analysis, May 2016 | No Comments »

Nonviolence is the Key to Bloodless Occupations

April 17, 2016
Nonviolence is the Key to Bloodless Occupations

TOM HASTINGS - Video footage of the Oregon State Police shooting of armed occupier LaVoy Finicum following a vehicular chase is so very sad to watch. Finicum may have been quite stupid in his belief that American public lands should belong to private ranchers, but he did not deserve to die. Sadly, he arranged...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2016 | No Comments »

You Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

January 8, 2016
You Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

TOM H. HASTINGS - John McCain frequently justifies his most war whacky ideas with, “I’d rather fight them over there than fight them here.” As if those are the two choices. As if presenting a non sequitur null set false dichotomy is a response that would ever work.

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Posted in Analysis, January 2016 | No Comments »

Don’t Try to Overthrow ISIS; Undermine It

November 29, 2015
Don’t Try to Overthrow ISIS; Undermine It

TOM H. HASTINGS - Even some of my favorite doves are advocating a mixed military response to ISIS. I can’t agree. The history of our violent response to terrorism began as a trickle, then a stream, then a torrent into Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria. Each and every time we “won” (deposed...

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Posted in Analysis, November 2015 | No Comments »

How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Middle East

September 28, 2015
How to Win Hearts and Minds in the Middle East

TOM H. HASTINGS - In the field in which I teach, Peace and Conflict Studies, we examine alternatives to violence or the threat of violence in the management of conflict. We are a transdisciplinary field, that is, we don't only draw from an interdisciplinary set of research findings--e.g. Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Law, Philosophy,...

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Posted in Analysis, September 2015 | No Comments »

Best Way to Get Rid of Enemy Iran: Get Unstuck

September 2, 2015
Best Way to Get Rid of Enemy Iran: Get Unstuck

TOM H. HASTINGS - We are SOS in the Middle East. Stuck on Stupid. Can we get unstuck?

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Posted in Analysis, September 2015 | No Comments »

Earth Day Means Leave It Better than You Found It

April 22, 2015
Earth Day Means Leave It Better than You Found It

TOM H. HASTINGS - How many holidays do we have? MLK Day in January, Valentines Day in February, Easter in March or April, Earth Day in April, Memorial Day in May, and so forth. Of those few examples, two were declared in my adulthood. New holidays take time to catch on and embed themselves...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2015 | No Comments »

U.S. Voters Hold Key to Peace in Middle East

August 4, 2014
U.S. Voters Hold Key to Peace in Middle East

DR. TOM H. HASTINGS - More than any other time in the history of the conflict over the tiny ancient land we call Israel and Palestine, voters from a land across the sea hold unused power to change the basic course and outcomes of that conflict. At this time, those voters--who are also largely...

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Posted in Analysis, August 2014 | No Comments »

Dear America: It’s Over (Rulers of the World Era)

June 18, 2014
Dear America: It’s Over (Rulers of the World Era)

TOM H. HASTINGS - Reinvade, reoccupy, and redestroy Iraq. That's the solution to the inevitable civil war that happens when the US pulls out? Will we do it until either Iraq is remade in our image or until the US economy, political environment, and culture is also destroyed?

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Posted in Analysis, June 2014 | No Comments »

Will Public Inaction Allow a War With Syria?

August 27, 2013
Will Public Inaction Allow a War With Syria?

TOM H. HASTINGS - How culpable is the person who watches a mugger rob someone and does nothing? What is our social psychology as we bystand silently while our government gears up toward yet another war crime? Lies or misleading information that leads to war should be an enforceable war crime and crime against...

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Posted in Analysis, August 2013 | No Comments »

Repeal the Second Amendment

January 5, 2013
Repeal the Second Amendment

TOM HASTINGS - I'm a peace person, as are my friends. I am striving to be nonviolent and have tried to learn nonviolence for years. I can point to alternatives to guns, I can argue against them, and that's about it. What we need -- what would dramatically change our national discourse on this...

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Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

Cost-Benefit Analyses for Open and Closed Fists

June 23, 2010
Cost-Benefit Analyses for Open and Closed Fists

TOM H. HASTINGS -- Here comes the 4th of July and we are barely done with Memorial Day. The flags of nationalistic patriotic fervor sprout and resprout across the land, in the parks, on the lawns, on billboards, on the Internet, and generally everywhere. Military jets will fly in formation, anthems will fill the...

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Posted in Analysis, June 2010 | No Comments »

Recovering to Death

October 1, 2009
Recovering to Death

TOM H. HASTINGS: If stimulus packages for corporate sinkholes are good enough for the American taxpayer, why can’t we find $5.4 billion to create minimum wage jobs, with full health care benefits, for the 216,000 Americans who lost their jobs in August? Coincidentally, $5.4 billion is the amount the Pentagon will spend next year...

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Posted in Archive, Oct 2009 | 1 Comment »

Global Civil Society Versus Planetary Annihilation: The Chronicle of Challenge

September 1, 2009
Global Civil Society Versus Planetary Annihilation: The Chronicle of Challenge

TOM H. HASTINGS: Lawrence S. Wittner embodies two roles to me. First, he is a first-rate academic historian, a scholar whose work defies what academicians call validity threats. That is a good thing, because he needs that in order to continue surviving in his second role that I find especially exemplary; he is a...

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Posted in Archive, Sept 2009 | No Comments »