The Anderson Files

NAFTA 2.no

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Almost 1 million American jobs were lost to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), according to a narrow U.S. government measure. More are...

Misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic

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The Trump years have been a long, bad LSD trip directed by David Lynch. Then COVID-19 arrived and we feel like lonely figures in...

What we need to learn from Viking economics

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In these days of Trumpian madness, George Lakey offers hope for progressives looking for strategies of social change. He has written a wonderful book...

Capitalism’s fascist temptation

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In 1928, U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon pushed the Federal Reserve Board to aggressively hike interest rates to control inflation and credit-fueled stock market...

Creating alternative realities to justify forever wars and overthrowing democracy

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was a little late leaving for work. As I passed a motel on the 28th Street...

What did Kevin McCarthy know and when did he know it?

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It’s too early to know the impact of Trump’s second impeachment trial. Many millions watched it on TV, but the size of the audience...

The path to a Bernie victory

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Bernie Sanders can win. On Super Tuesday, Clinton won in “red” conservative states of the South, which Democrats will lose in the general election,...

Helping heal the wounds of division

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The massive 10-part PBS documentary series on the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick starts by saying the war  was “begun in...

Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays

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The call and response was loud. “What’s disgusting?” “Union busting!” On a chilly Saturday evening on Dec. 17, some 40 boisterous demonstrators outside Ash’Kara restaurant at 1043...

Manipulation… Venezuela style

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Twenty years ago, Hugo Chávez proclaimed the dawn of a new era of social justice in Venezuela after his landslide presidential election. He spoke...

What would Molly do?

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These days, I wonder what Molly Ivins would think of today’s politics. Those of us who were fans called her Molly even if we...

Follow Trump’s money

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Almost certainly, we are in the middle of the biggest political scandal in American history. After Trump’s obsequious performance in Helsinki, it feels like...