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 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 |
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Views Sunday, February 19, 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 |
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Views Monday, November 14, 2016 Donna Brazile Needs to Leave the DNC—Right Now The race to head the Democratic National Committee is on. The decision of both outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his presumptive successor Chuck Schumer to endorse the candidacy of Rep. Keith Ellison – one of the few members of Congress to support the candidacy of Bernie Sanders – is a... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 13, 2016 If You Mean It, Hillary Clinton, Say It Loud In an email released by WikiLeaks, one Hillary Clinton advisor claimed the campaign was so uninspired that he was “ petrified that Hillary is almost totally dependent on Republicans nominating Trump .” Of course, they did nominate Trump. And it may well be that the man known to claim that he could... Read more |