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| | ==Career== | | ==Career== |
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| − | Gemma has authored political articles for decades, including more than a hundred for ''USA Today.'' Some of his recent columns have been penned for The Social Contract Press, including: | + | Gemma has authored political articles for decades, including more than a hundred for ''USA Today.'' Some of his recent columns have been penned for the Social Contract Press, including: |
| | *"Free Trade: Exporting Jobs, Importing Aliens" (2012) | | *"Free Trade: Exporting Jobs, Importing Aliens" (2012) |
| | *"Korean Agreement Latest Fiasco in 'Free Trade' Deals - An Interview with Economnist Ian Fletcher" (2012) | | *"Korean Agreement Latest Fiasco in 'Free Trade' Deals - An Interview with Economnist Ian Fletcher" (2012) |
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| | * "No Eunuch Ever Wrote a Book" (2016).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/artman2/search.cgi?action=search&page=2&perpage=10&template=searchEngine/authorSearchResults.html&includeSubcats=0&keywordSearchFields=author&keyword=Peter%20Gemma|title=The Social Contract Press|publisher=thesocialcontract.com|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> Some of the essays have been incorporated into three college textbooks.<ref name=pbgbio/> | | * "No Eunuch Ever Wrote a Book" (2016).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesocialcontract.com/cgi-bin/artman2/search.cgi?action=search&page=2&perpage=10&template=searchEngine/authorSearchResults.html&includeSubcats=0&keywordSearchFields=author&keyword=Peter%20Gemma|title=The Social Contract Press|publisher=thesocialcontract.com|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> Some of the essays have been incorporated into three college textbooks.<ref name=pbgbio/> |
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| − | In 1988, as [[Ronald W. Reagan]] was vacating the presidency, Gemma penned for '' [[USA Today]]'' an article about the "iron triangle" of power and monied interests that perpetuate big government with deficit spending and higher taxes. The arrangement refers to a coalition of [[liberal]] U.S. representative and senators, [[interest group]]s, and popular media, which usurp democratic institutions and are often called subgovernments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterbgemma.com/2016/04/121588-usa-today-oped-iron-triangle-rules-washington/|title=Op/Ed: “Iron Triangle” Rules Washington|date=December 1988|publisher=''[[USA Today]]''|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> Despite Reagan's warnings, the triangle was never seriously challenged in subsequent administrations. | + | In 1988, as [[Ronald W. Reagan]] was vacating the presidency, Gemma penned for '' [[USA Today]]'' an article about the "iron triangle" of power and monied interests that perpetuate big government with deficit spending and higher taxes. The arrangement refers to a coalition of [[liberal]] U.S. representative and senators, [[interest group]]s, and popular media, which usurp democratic institutions and are often called subgovernments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterbgemma.com/2016/04/121588-usa-today-oped-iron-triangle-rules-washington/|title=Op/Ed: “Iron Triangle” Rules Washington|date=December 1988|publisher=''[[USA Today]]''|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> Despite Reagan's warnings, the triangle was never seriously challenged in subsequent administrations. The triangle was later called "the deep state." |
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| | In 1993, Gemma wrote for ''USA Today'' a biographical sketch of Dan Smoot, the former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agent and conservative scholar who had, among other aberrant positions, challenged [[Barry Goldwater]] during the 1964 presidential campaign for the nominee's embrace of [[NATO]], which Smoot called a [[Globalism|globalist]] organization of questionable value.<ref name=dsmoot>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterbgemma.com/2014/01/dan-smoot/|title=Dan Smoot: The Man and His Message|author=Peter B. Gemma|date=January 1993|publisher=''USA Today''|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> Smoot later opposed the nomination of [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] to the [[United States Senate]] from [[Texas]] in 1970, the year that Bush lost to Democrat [[Lloyd Bentsen]]. Smoot also warned against the "invisible government" he viewed as the likely outcome of the domination of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] on national policy.<ref name=dsmoot/> | | In 1993, Gemma wrote for ''USA Today'' a biographical sketch of Dan Smoot, the former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] agent and conservative scholar who had, among other aberrant positions, challenged [[Barry Goldwater]] during the 1964 presidential campaign for the nominee's embrace of [[NATO]], which Smoot called a [[Globalism|globalist]] organization of questionable value.<ref name=dsmoot>{{cite web|url=http://www.peterbgemma.com/2014/01/dan-smoot/|title=Dan Smoot: The Man and His Message|author=Peter B. Gemma|date=January 1993|publisher=''USA Today''|accessdate=May 21, 2016}}</ref> Smoot later opposed the nomination of [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] to the [[United States Senate]] from [[Texas]] in 1970, the year that Bush lost to Democrat [[Lloyd Bentsen]]. Smoot also warned against the "invisible government" he viewed as the likely outcome of the domination of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] on national policy.<ref name=dsmoot/> |
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| | For more than three decades, Gemma has worked in the political arena, managing campaigns, raising money for candidates and causes, and training candidates and campaign staffs.<ref name=readings>{{cite web|url=http://www.quarterly-review.org/what-were-reading-peter-b-gemma/|title=What We're Reading: Peter Gemma|publisher=''Quarterly Review''|date=June 13, 2012|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> He has also worked with non-profit organizations, such as the American Institute for Cancer Research, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the National Association of Arab-Americans, the Center for Homeless Veterans, the Wildfowl Trust of North America, and ''Jazz Magazine''.<ref name=pbgbio/> | | For more than three decades, Gemma has worked in the political arena, managing campaigns, raising money for candidates and causes, and training candidates and campaign staffs.<ref name=readings>{{cite web|url=http://www.quarterly-review.org/what-were-reading-peter-b-gemma/|title=What We're Reading: Peter Gemma|publisher=''Quarterly Review''|date=June 13, 2012|accessdate=May 20, 2016}}</ref> He has also worked with non-profit organizations, such as the American Institute for Cancer Research, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the National Association of Arab-Americans, the Center for Homeless Veterans, the Wildfowl Trust of North America, and ''Jazz Magazine''.<ref name=pbgbio/> |
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