http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tomhayden/ en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:11:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts Two big questions hang over President Obama's radical "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones. Is he still a communist? Is he a security threat? Many have assumed that Van Jones' committment to communism ended when the organization he helped to lead STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement) dissolved in 2002. Yet a 2004 treatise Reclaiming Revolution: History, Summation, and Lessons from the Work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement written and endorsed by a majority of former STORM members makes it clear that most ex STORMers are still committed to the revolutionary movement; From page 49. When... New Zeal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2326208/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:11:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999501/posts The death of Pol Pot, 23 years to the day after he and the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia, occasioned long backward glances at one of the 20th century's most horrific genocides. It was noted everywhere that the communist reign of terror in Cambodia lasted nearly four years and that at least 1 million human beings -- by some estimates as many as 2 1/2 million -- were murdered in an orgy of executions, torture, and starvation. "In the name of a radical utopia," The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, "the Khmer Rouge regime had turned... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999501/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:01:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089887/posts <p>A founding member of the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois met in New York City tonight with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</p> <p>Jodie Evans, who co-hosted Obama's first major fundraiser in Hollywood in February 2007 just after Obama announced his candidacy and is a top fundraiser and donor to Obama's campaign, led a delegation of leftist anti-American groups that held a private meeting near the United Nations. The stated purpose of the meeting was to "serve as an opening for diplomatic resolution" to prevent war between Iran and the United States.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089887/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:42:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041132/posts More anti-war figures are voicing their opinions about contradictory and confusing statements regarding Iraq made Thursday by presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and the news is clearly not good for his campaign. One such concerned party is Tom Hayden, the famed ex-husband of Jane Fonda who, along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, was part of the Chicago Seven that incited riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041132/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:36:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038533/posts The highest voltage third rail of this presidential campaign may not be race, sex, or age, but Senator John McCain's military service. McCain's campaign Sunday issued a pair of outraged statements after retired general and Barack Obama supporter Wesley Clark said he didn't think that McCain’s service as a fighter pilot and prisoner of war was relevant to running the country. Obama has consistently praised McCain's service, and called him "a genuine American hero." But farther to the left—and among some of McCain's conservative enemies as well—harsher attacks are circulating. Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038533/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005894/posts My wife Barbara has begun yelling at the television set every time she hears Hillary Clinton. This is abnormal behavior, since Barbara is a meditative practitioner of everything peaceful and organic, and is inspired by Barack Obama's transformational appeal. For Barbara, Hillary has become the screech on the blackboard. From First Lady to Lady Macbeth.It's getting to me as well. Last year, I was somewhat reconciled to the prospect of supporting and pressuring Hillary as the nominee amidst the rising tide of my friends who already hated her, irrationally I thought. I was one of those people Barack accuses of... The Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005894/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:55:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986169/posts Why aren't the Vietnamese more grateful to Tom Hayden? Recently, he returned for the first time in 36 years to the country that he and his then-wife Jane Fonda tried to save from American domination in the Vietnam war. The trip disappointed him. As he writes in the March 10 issue of The Nation, Vietnam has turned capitalist. Was that what he fought for? Absolutely not. He remains capitalism's enemy, still the same lefty who helped found 1960s student radicalism. This week, another celebrated American liberal, playwright David Mamet, declared that he's abandoned the ideology he shared with Hayden. Mamet,... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986169/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982777/posts Bonus missed due to anti-war court commissioner Veterans were outraged Friday by a Los Angeles court commissioner who allegedly denied a Simi Valley teen's request to enlist early in the Marines because she opposed the Iraq war. As word of Commissioner Marilyn Mackel's decision spread on talk radio, television news and blogs, veterans at VFW Post 2805 in Canoga Park chewed over the controversial decision. "As a judge, she should be lending her opinion based on laws, not her feelings," said Bob Moran, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post. "No one gives a (expletive) whether she supports the... Daily News - Los Angeles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982777/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:36:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926386/posts ANALYSIS: Protesters took to the streets in past conflicts; today their presence may be strongest online. In May, saddened that she had failed to stop the war in Iraq that took her son's life and made her the face of opposition, Cindy Sheehan tearfully quit the anti-war movement. She had concluded that her son Casey, a 24-year-old Army specialist killed in an April 2004 battle in Baghdad, had "died for nothing." "Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next 'American Idol' than how many people will be killed in the next few months," Sheehan... The Long Beach Press-Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926386/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893593/posts Since it is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's ground-breaking book, "On The Road," many are using the occasion to reminisce about the author. However, Tom Hayden is using this anniversary as a way to lament in the Huffington Post over the fact that Kerouac was too much of an iconoclast to buy into his collectivist leftwing agenda: Having set the stage for the '60s, Kerouac seems to have gone missing which at first I thought odd, but it made perfect sense because he defined himself as a loner on the margins. Suddenly confronted with the possibility... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893593/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:02:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts Veteran actress and feminist Jane Fonda has been slammed for not paying her female employees working in the actress' radio network Green Stone Media. The twice Oscar winner and the radio network's co-founder Gloria Steinem have been accused of "putting their own reputations above their female employees' finances." According to the New York Post, Fonda and Steinem are 'refusing to pay severance, and the founders won't file for bankruptcy protection because it would publicly embarrass Jane and Gloria.' However, the 'Klute' star's spokesperson has denied the reports and said that the accusations are unfounded. "This is pure speculation. There is... Yahoo! Movies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883325/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692527/posts Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden, and the Hate America Left meet with pro-Ba'athist members of the Iraqi parliament to discuss “peace.” TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA AS MUCH AS THEY DO, the Fifth Column Left had to go halfway around the world to meet with Iraqi political leaders who call terrorism “honorable national resistance” and say foreign jihadists “are guaranteed Paradise” – and at least one of whom has ties to militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. By the end of the trip, the American leftists would echo these sentiments. Somehow most of the media – occupied with interminable coverage of Hurricane... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692527/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692666/posts TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA AS MUCH AS THEY DO, the Fifth Column Left had to go halfway around the world to meet with Iraqi political leaders who call terrorism “honorable national resistance” and say foreign jihadists “are guaranteed Paradise” – and at least one of whom has ties to militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. By the end of the trip, the American leftists would echo these sentiments. Somehow most of the media – occupied with interminable coverage of Hurricane Katrina and JonBenet Ramsey’s non-killer – neglected to report that earlier this month a contingent of infamous American radicals including... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692666/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:08:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689006/posts Jeeni Criscenzo, Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives 49th California District seat currently held by Republican nominee Darrell Issa, wrote in a blog entry earlier this month from Amman, Jordan of her support for the so-called insurgency in Iraq.Criscenzo went to Amman with leaders of the anti-American group Code Pink and Sixties activist Tom Hayden to conspire with a group of anti-American Iraqi parliamentarians.On August 6, writing in her campaign Web site blog which is linked on the Daily Kos blog, Criscenzo said, "It is important to distinguish between the militia, or death squads and the resistance,... Daily Kos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689006/posts#comment Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688010/posts When CODEPINK launched our hunger strike, called Troops Home Fast on July 4, our goal was to push forward a peace process in Iraq that included the withdrawal of US troops. Our efforts were rewarded when Iraqi Parliamentarians, expressing sympathy for the hunger strikers, invited us to Amman, Jordan, to break our 30-day fast and discuss how we could work together to promote a comprehensive Reconciliation Plan. On Wednesday, August 2, a 14-person delegation, including "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, former Colonel Ann Wright, Iraq war veteran Geoffrey Millard, writer/politician Tom Hayden, Iraqi analyst Raed Jarrar and CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin,... Code Pink Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688010/posts#comment Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:21:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679529/posts Iraq War: Tom Hayden has a new war to undermine, a new enemy to succor and a new Jane Fonda to attract the cameras. His stepped-up activity represents a growing alliance of Islamofascists and the far left. It's not good news. Last weekend, the one-time Chicago Seven riot conspirator and radical Santa Monica state assemblyman paid a visit to Amman, Jordan, along with anti-war "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan and other fringe leftists, to meet anti-American Iraqi politicians. One is Sunni dead-ender Salman al-Jumaili, who seeks the expulsion of U.S. troops from Iraq. Others are radical Shiites. They've all found new... INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679529/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:47:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646924/posts Mark Finkelstein June 10, 2006 On the day of the running of the final leg of the Triple Crown, we've got a new leader in the Wackiest Zarqawi-Take Stakes. The new favorite in the kooky conspiracy derby is far from a colt. He's recycled anti-Vietnam activist and former Jane Fonda husband Tom Hayden. His winning notion? That Zarqawi might really have been our guy in Iraq. In this Huffington Post piece, Hayden tries to give himself some cover by stating "I have no reason to believe Zarqawi was an [American] agent," but then immediately goes on to darkly muse: "But... Huffington Post/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646924/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:21:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597775/posts For as long as I can remember, all I've ever heard about the Irish in general or the Irish in America or the meaning behind St. Patrick's Day was ... drink, drank, drunk. That's it. And I'm not alone. Back in 2001, social activist Tom Hayden published a stunning book entitled "Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America"; it's a memoir-social history-travelogue combined. In a chapter called "Drinking, Sexuality, and Assimilation," Hayden writes: "Drinking was the only Irish legacy passed along to me. You drink because you're Irish, I learned, which soon became you're Irish... Capital Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597775/posts#comment Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:40:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts#comment Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463940/posts Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan who is camped in Crawford, Texas demanding a meeting with President Bush over the death of son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in combat in Iraq has surrounded herself with groups that have endorsed the so-called Iraqi resistance.Last June, groups opposed to the American-led war to depose the regime of Saddam Hussein gathered in Istanbul to hear testimony before a 'jury of conscience' on charges of war crimes and violations of international law by the United States.Endorsers of the statement issued by the World Tribunal on Iraq at the end of the conference include Code Pink Women... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463940/posts#comment Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:36:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1464512/posts Cindy is winning the war for meaning. Only the families, friends, and buddies of the dead can carry this lonely burden for the rest of us. As they do, peace movement slogans like "bring them home now" will have deep resonance with all Americans. "Robert Jay Lifton reported this phenomenon among Vietnam-era soldiers and their families. He wrote that 'when the alternative survivor mission takes hold, victims become ignoble sacrifices, products of crual deception. Their deaths then have meaning only in serving to expose the grotesque truths of the war. The alternative survivor mission can become one of oppostion to... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1464512/posts#comment Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:49:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459510/posts Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, the Communist Party that ruled Cambodia from 1976-1979. "Khmer Rouge" (or Khmer Reds) was the French rendering of the organization’s official name: the "Communist Party of Cambodia," later the "Party of Democratic Kampuchea" and also the "Communist Party of Kampuchea," or CPK. (Kampuchea is the local name for Cambodia.) Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar in what is now the province of Kompong Thong, Cambodia in 1925. He came from a prosperous farming family that in 1931 moved to the capital, Phnom Penh, where the young Pol Pot learned some of... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1459510/posts#comment Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432564/posts Green TheologyAustin Ruse, President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the only Catholic lobbying group at the United Nations in New York, reports that there are a number of troubling groups circling around the UN. One such group is fairly new and as yet little-reported movement called the United Religious Initiative (URI), now active in 58 countries and 33 states in the U.S. It has been described as "an exclusive, decentralized organization, a spiritual partner of the United Nations." URI positions support population control, environmental extremism, and are radical on sexual matters. A new document signed by URI's... Catholic Culture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432564/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:55:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419395/posts www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org Date: 6/9/2005 6:44:58 AM PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA 12280 West Indian School RoadPMB # 177Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 Phone :877-368-9221URL :http://www.pdamerica.org An organization founded in July 2004 to provide a “philosophical home within the Democratic Party for the progressive community” Co-founded and led mostly by activists from failed 2004 presidential campaign of Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a leader of the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives One co-founder is veteran left radical Tom Hayden Helped install Howard Dean as head of Democratic National Committee Supported by several Hollywood stars, including Ed Asner, “Mr. Grant” of The Mary Tyler Moore Show  ... Discover the Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1419395/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:03:20 GMT