The Anderson Files

Why the King Soopers strike matters

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“The companies were thriving, but our workers didn’t thrive. Know what our workers got? COVID. Attacked. Beat up. Spit on. Slapped. Overworked. And the company? They did great. They did absolutely great, sitting behind their desk doing their job by Zoom.”— Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 in Colorado

Climate apartheid

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The world is facing the prospect of “climate apartheid,” where “the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the...

The autoworker strike is building an alliance between unions and climate...

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On Planet MAGA, where climate change is a Chinese hoax, rightwing media says Joe Biden’s promotion of a “woke” transition to electric vehicles is...

Trump and the deep state

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Trump and his defenders have claimed that he is the victim of a gigantic conspiracy by the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, President Obama...

A new reality for Israelis, Palestinians and U.S. politics

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The Israel-Palestine conflict is frequently portrayed as an eternal Hatfields versus McCoys dispute. There is calm now after the fighting.  But Yousef Munayyer, a political...

The Colorado GOP: Wild, crazy and dangerous

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Donald Trump has been a disaster for the Colorado Republican Party, according to Dick Wadhams, the party’s chair from 2007-2011. Wadhams isn’t some play-by-the-rules...

Kiss Off, Henry

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When Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100 recently, leading politicians of both parties praised him effusively. Kissinger was national security adviser and...

Trump, TPP and progressives

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Donald Trump is portrayed in the mainstream media as the primary critic of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is ironic since the coalition against...

Russian Revolution turns 100, Soviet Union collapse turns 25

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There was no official commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last year. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asked, “What is there to...

What Republicans have proposed isn’t health care

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The battle over health care is literally a life and death struggle. In a piece in the Washington Post, doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie...

Fighting solves everything?

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There is a rising wave of far right ultra-nationalist movements around the world. We’ve found that America is just as vulnerable as any other...

Economists agree with Bernie

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The popularity of Bernie Sanders marks “the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” according...