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, October 22, 2019 A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan Run for office and you know you're going to have to do some things you'd rather not. High on my list of things I'd rather not has been Twitter, the 280 character pop-off being an art form I'd just as soon leave to Donald Trump. But, as we know, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez does make some pretty good... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 11, 2019 Turkey, the Kurds, and Lots and Lots of US Weapons Turkey, a U.S. ally in Syria, attacks another U.S. ally in Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led group of militias whose very existence is anathema to the Turkish government—and the Trump Administration does nothing to prevent it. Trump’s indifference is appropriately denounced by the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The US Needs a Marshall Plan for Central America Imagine we’re no longer battling Trump Administration abuse of asylum-seekers on our southern border and we have a chance to “do the right thing.” What would we do? How about a Marshall Plan for Central America? The original Marshall Plan (named for U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall) spent... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 12, 2019 San Francisco Democrats Adopt Venezuela Stance Diametrically Opposed to Pelosi’s At its most recent monthly meeting, San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee adopted a resolution on Venezuela diametrically opposed to the stance taken by the city’s top Democrat, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who represents the lion’s share of the city’s voters. The resolution... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 21, 2018 Nancy Pelosi Represents House Democrats, but San Francisco? Not So Much Who does Nancy Pelosi represent? The Democratic members of the House of Representatives or the people of San Francisco? New York Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently voiced the opinion that Pelosi appeared to be the most progressive choice available to lead House Democrats in the... Read more |
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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 |