Tom Gallagher
Tom Gallagher is a former Massachusetts State Representative and the author of 'The Primary Route: How the 99% Take On the Military Industrial Complex.' He lives in San Francisco.
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Views Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Sorry Willie Brown, the Democratic Socialists Aren’t Leaving "Your" Party In the October 20 “Willie’s World,” Willie Brown’s often surprisingly informative and entertaining San Francisco Chronicle column, the former San Francisco mayor and California Assembly speaker tells us that, “Democratic socialists are not Democrats. They run under the Democratic banner, but they... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 21, 2018 A Trojan Horse for the U.S.? Every school child learns how military hardware has changed over the three thousand years since the Greeks besieged Troy – sword, shield, and spear to gun, tank and bomb. We spend relatively little time, though, asking how people’s attitudes toward their wars and enemies have changed – if they have... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 19, 2018 May We Speak of Reason, Rather Than of Treason? If we needed a reminder of why we might not be so quick to bandy about charges of treason—in regard to Donald Trump or anyone else—there came the obituary of one John A. Stormer, a name much less recognized than the book he wrote—“None Dare Call It Treason”—an “Influential Red Scare Book of the ‘... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 24, 2018 The Afghanistan War and the California Senate Race In his February state Democratic Convention speech, California Senate President Kevin DeLeon took U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein to task for her vote in favor of the Iraq War. No surprise there – he hopes to unseat the state’s senior U.S. Senator and candidates have frequently focused on opponents’... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 06, 2018 California Democrats Call for End to Seemingly Endless Afghanistan War The California Democratic Party has called for defunding the Afghanistan War, apparently the first state party to do so – in the war’s seventeenth year. At their San Diego convention last weekend, California Democrats adopted a platform advocating “ending air strikes in Afghanistan, ... a timetable... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 24, 2017 If You Hate Donald Trump, Hate This War, Too "We will never 'win' militarily in Afghanistan, nor can we kill our way to success." Retired Admiral James Stavridis made a lot of sense when he wrote these words for TIME magazine last May. Taken out of context, they might make one think that Stavridis, past NATO Supreme Allied Commander and... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 21, 2017 A Thought for Bernie Sanders: Maybe He Should Join the Democratic Party? We all know how thoroughly Bernie Sanders shook up American politics, particularly within the Democratic Party, when he took his challenge to the generally unchallenged, and usually unspoken rule of big money in politics. Even now they’re starting to argue about whether he’s the party’s 2020... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 08, 2017 Move to the Center! And Then? Move to the Center! Whatever else you might want to say about the corporate types who dominate the Democratic Party, you’ve got to give some of them an “A” for audacity. The latest to register for top scores are Mark Penn and Andrew Stein who have raised the cry, “ Back to the Center, Democrats ” in a New York Times... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 22, 2017 The Democratic Party Left After the Ellison DNC Campaign: Unite or Fight? One thing to keep in mind about the recent Thomas Perez–Keith Ellison race for Democratic National Committee chair is that it was pretty much an only-in-America sort of thing. Were we in any kind of parliamentary system – like most countries have – the two sides would probably be in different... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, February 21, 2017 The Stakes in the Race for Democratic National Committee Chair One leading candidate for Democratic National Committee Chair recently said, "We heard loudly and clearly yesterday from Bernie supporters that the process was rigged and it was. And you've got to be honest about it. That's why we need a chair who is transparent." In a contest as hotly contested as... Read more |