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. He can be reached at TGTGTGTGTG@aol.com.
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Views Tuesday, March 30, 2021 US Elections: "They Should Send Observers Over Here" As a frequent observer of foreign elections, I'm an even more frequent recipient of quips to the effect that "They should send observers over here." It started in earnest following Florida's 2000 presidential election hanging chad fiasco and has never really let up. And each time I explain to the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 03, 2020 Joe Biden, Don’t Let Donald Trump Run as the Antiwar Candidate! In Donald Trump, the dove and the hawk closely intertwine, sometimes appearing simultaneously. On a recent day the San Francisco Chronicle noted “his plan to withdraw all troops from Iraq as soon as possible,” only inches away from reporting his administration’s “demand for all U.N. sanctions on... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 24, 2020 Russia Accused of a Plot to Steal Vaccine Research! The Russian hackers are coming! Again! They’re about as bad as capitalists as they were as communists, ain’t they? What now? There it was in the headline: Russia accused of a plot to steal vaccine research. Britain’s National Cyber Security Center director denounced the “despicable acts” and a... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 17, 2020 Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan and Germany Is Still a Good Idea May as well get right to the point—so far as the matter of withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Germany goes, Donald Trump is right. The House Armed Services Committee is wrong—its Democratic members even more so than its Republicans. So there, I’ve said it. Elections tend to make... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 25, 2020 Killing Them Softly With Sanctions Dig deep into the June issue of National Geographic magazine and you might just find something that will cast a major aspect of American foreign policy—our economic sanctions regimes—in a new light. The issue’s cover story, "The Last Voices of World War II," includes a graphic showing the death... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 23, 2020 What the Class of ‘70's Old New Left Might Have Talked About at Their Canceled Reunions There’ll be no fiftieth reunions for the class of ‘70, it seems. Abruptly thrust out into the world in the uproar following the National Guard’s killing of four students at a Kent State University antiwar demonstration, the class now find their return just as abruptly canceled by Covid-19. A... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 17, 2020 So, Joe Biden, Here’s the Deal So, Joe Biden, I understand your people wanted Bernie Sanders to endorse you real quick. And now he has. Pretty quickly, I think. Certainly quicker than I or a lot of his supporters would have done so, were it up to us. Of course a lot of us wish he hadn’t withdrawn at all. But I digress. The point... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 09, 2020 Post-Sanders: Dealing with Biden, the DNC, and the Rest of It For the past five years an American left has lived and breathed as never before, with a self-described democratic socialist coming out of nowhere (okay, Vermont isn’t nowhere, but it’s next to it) to eventually become the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, until the party’s... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 26, 2020 Bernie Sanders in the Age of Coronavirus: We Need Him Now More Than Ever Bernie Sanders threw his hat in the 2016 Democratic presidential ring in order to wage a campaign highlighting the need for a universal national health insurance system and, more broadly, a government run in the interest of the common person, rather than the melange of billionaires, mega-... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 20, 2020 Foreign Policy—the Primary Debate’s Final Frontier I went out for a beer the other night with a guy who was critical of Bernie Sanders for, among other reasons, his involvement with the Democratic Party. Understanding that I, like Sanders, was prepared to - reluctantly and with great reservation - support Biden should he win the nomination, he... Read more |