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 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 Of course a lot of us wish he hadn’t withdrawn at all.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 |
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Views Tuesday, March 10, 2020 Boomer, Hold Thy Tongue Fellow baby boomers - would it be too much to ask you to stop hurting the chances of the presidential candidate you say you agree with? The candidate I’m talking about is, of course, Bernie Sanders. And the particular boomers I speak of are the ones who opposed the Iraq War, who want to reverse the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Paul Krugman on This Bernie Sanders and Socialism Thing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman believes “Bernie Sanders isn’t actually a socialist in any normal sense of the term,” ( Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist ) and frets that “his misleading self-description will be a gift to the Trump campaign,” should Sanders win the Democratic presidential... Read more |
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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 |