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Tom Gallagher was a Bernie Sanders delegate elected from California's 12th Congressional District. He is the author of "The Primary Route: How the 99 Percent Takes on the Military Industrial Complex."
(25 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 16, 2016 Bernie Sanders and the Superdelegates
Are the Democratic Convention superdelegates the ace in the hole of the party establishment? We're getting ahead of ourselves here.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 15, 2012 Vote For the War Criminal -- It's Important!
An argument that choosing the lesser of two evils is a vey important part of politics that can't wished away and shouldn't be denied.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Ukraine: Which Way Out?
The multinational/multiethnic nature of the former USSR is generally ignored in the discussion of the Ukraine War. Could an ultimate settlement be based on plebiscites in the disputed areas?
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 6, 2016 An Old-Time Convention In Philadelphia?
When Bernie Sanders delegates actually vote for their candidate at the Philadelphia convention, instead of going for pretend unity, they will be adhering to a long and honorable democratic, and Democratic tradition.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2023 Three requests for you, Bernie Sanders
Do we really want to enter an presidential election asking the American people to fund two seemingly endless wars?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 8, 2013 Americans -- The Only Ones Not In On the Secret
Seldom has Washington looked more out of touch with the rest of the world than now as it seeks the extradition of Robert Snowden while harboring Robert Seldon Lady
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 9, 2020 Boomer, hold thy tongue.
People who agree with Sanders on the issues need to stop undermining his candidacy.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Whose Secrets Is the US Protecting These Days?
Rasies the question of why the FBI, a taxpayer-funded agency of the US government protects the interests of multinational corporations who primary allegiance is not necessarily the US.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Auto workers and the cost of "the best talent"
Automobile industry executives who make hundreds of times what their employees do tell us the workers are asking for too much.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 13, 2017 The Keith Ellison DNC Challenge
The challenge for the Sanders movement is to make itself part of the permanent political landscape.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 1, 2020 Break up the CIA!
Just like ICE, the CIA needs its legitimate aspects reassigned and the illegitimate ones ended.
(8 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 11, 2014 Those Still Going on about Ralph Nader Electing Bush in 2000 Should Desist
After 13 years, it's time to stop calling for Nader to apologize for what George Bush, particularly when Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama are not called upon to apologize for what they've done.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 8, 2017 Move to the center! And then? Move to the center!
The New York Times has published an opinion piece about a fantasy world where the Democrats are losing because they've been captured by the left.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 21, 2013 Tony Blair Finds the Trouble Within Islam
This is for those of you who will never forgive Tony Blair for the cover he gave George Bush for the invasion of Iraq.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 22, 2017 A Thought for Bernie Sanders: Maybe He Should Join the Democratic Party?
Any decision as to Sanders's political status is obviously ultimately his to make, of course. Yet his oft-stated point, "It's not about me, it's us" -- so central to his campaign -- does suggest that the consideration is a legitimate matter for all of "us." And one can't help but wonder if Bernie Sanders couldn't add a measure of clarity to the current situation.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 28, 2015 On Bernie Sanders's Foreign Policy
Bernie Sanders's foreign policy may not represent the radical change that we might want, but it is not exactly the same old same old, either.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Cornel West: The primaries call
Cornel West should take his presidential candidacy to the Democratic primaries.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 3, 2017 San Francisco Democrats tell Pelosi to Oppose Syria War
San Democratic Central Committee backs Barbara Lee's HR 1473, The Prohibit Expansion of Combat Troops Into Syria Act. Tells Nancy Pelosi to do same.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 19, 2017 The Democratic National Committee race hits the homestretch
Thomas Perez would represent a continuation of the vision Democratic Party as a party of the people that competes with the Republicans for corporate money.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 4, 2017 A California fix from out of old Massachusetts?
The California legislature blocked single-payer health-care legislation for four years. This couldn't happen in Massachusetts where citizens have the "right of free petition."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 22, 2023 Leave Venezuela! No, go back!
It is U.S. Government policy to make life miserable by its imposition of economic sanctions. Huge numbers have fled to the U.S. to escape those conditions. The U.S. is now sending them back.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 14, 2021 On Michael Harrington
Underlying today's Democratic Socialists of America is the work of Michael Harrington.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 18, 2013 The Charmed Life of John Kerry
Remembering the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, let's not forget the enablers. The great disservice Secretary of State did to the antiwar movement as a presidential candidate.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Our Veterans
The unvarnished story of America's veterans, a story very different than that of the "greatest generation."
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 10, 2021 They're Biden's wars now
Joe Biden has inherited the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, just as his two predecessors did.