Articles by Tom H. Hastings
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New Stories for a New Era
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2017
The Way Between by Rivera Sun, El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works (2016). This novel should be read aloud to everyone, by everyone, from childhood onward. It is an auspicious beginning to a new mythology of peace, of justice, of inclusion, of conversion and transformation.
→ read full articleRethinking Killing Civilians
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
We not only create more terrorists when we accidentally or mistakenly take out a hospital, almost more importantly, we create a widening, deepening pool of sympathy for any sort of insurgency against the US. Why on Earth would we continue to essentially guarantee that this global war on terror is permanent?
→ read full articleCommemorate the Good September 11
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2016
On September 11, 1906, Mohandas Gandhi stood to speak in the Imperial Theater in white-ruled South Africa, a society completely grounded and awash in blatant, “legal” racism. Gandhi–those old enough to have seen the 1982 Hollywood version of his life may remember the scene—stood in a crowded theater and explained the new odious racial laws that ruled Hindu marriages void, that allowed police to enter the home of any Indian without a warrant or permission, and that required each Indian to carry a pass at all times.
→ read full articleGame Changer
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
Everything we’ve done has been destructive. We are great at destroying. Bomb refugee camps, hospitals, funerals. Bomb Iraq, and Afghanistan, also Pakistan, don’t forget Somalia, Libya or Yemen. Bomb bomb bomb… Hey, ISIS, we need to talk. Hey, my fellow American voters, we need to elect leaders who can get this done. Innovation has been abandoned to devastation—let’s fix this.
→ read full articleAfrica/America
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Recently I have had the great privilege to work with some of the 1,000 Mandela Washington Fellows, a select group of young sub-Saharan African leaders ages 25-35 placed for six weeks at about 40 universities around the US. The young leaders are electrifying.
→ read full articleA New Declaration of Independence
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2016
The US has entered the Orwellian Era of permanent war—until we decide that it’s over…. Time for a Declaration of Independence from foreign military disasters.
→ read full articleYes to Assertive, No to Aggressive
Tom H. Hastings | PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
10 May 2016 – 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.
→ read full articleDOD Woe: Pentagon’s War on the Earth
Tom H. Hastings, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2016
We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. The Pentagon is relentless in seeking immunity from federal environmental protection laws.
→ read full articleYou Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Tom H. Hastings, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Who benefits? Who loses? US elites benefit. Owners of military contractors benefit the most ($711,000,000 the last day of 2015 alone, nearly $40 million per hour around the clock), and they share their largesse with those who serve them best—friendly bellicose politicians, persuasive media, high-level military officers.
→ read full articleCommunication and Appreciation
Tom H. Hastings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2015
This is the beauty and magic of adaptive conflict communication. It can attenuate damage and increase gain for good ethical and moral practices. Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist, worked his entire professional career on these concepts.
→ read full articleWhat Is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Tom H. Hastings, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it?
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