The Anderson Files

Syria and progressives

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Earlier this year, scholar and journalist Idrees Ahmad penned a scathing piece on Medium.com entitled “Aleppo is our Guernica  —  and some are cheering...

Colorado’s GOP militia gang

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Violent far rightists have been around for some time, but the Jan. 6 hearings have revealed their incestuous relationships with some of the most...

House gaslighting panel and Trump-Russia mysteries

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The “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is a grotesque, Orwellian joke. Created by the U.S. House Republican majority, it will...

The legacy of Joe McCarthy lives on

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Donald Trump has been compared to earlier rightwing demagogues such as Hitler, Mussolini, George Wallace and Pat Buchanan. The name of witch-hunter Senator Joe...

Strike wave may be the beginning of something big

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"There’s a new strike wave happening now," says Alexander Colvin, the dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The discontent has been...

Lessons from Nixon and Kent State

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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio. — Neil Young, “Ohio” Something ugly...

Changes in Latin America

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While Venezuela’s alarming humanitarian and political crisis has rightly grabbed our attention, another disturbing event in Latin America has been forgotten. That event was...

Free market fundamentalism and COVID-19

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The world turns upside down a couple times a day. As I write this, President Trump has caught COVID-19 and is benefiting from “socialized...

Pandemic profiteering

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More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and more than 32 million have lost their jobs. During the first quarter of 2020 alone,...

Phil Anschutz, powerful but shy Colorado right-wing multibillionaire

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Phil Anschutz is one of the richest people in Colorado. But he has considerable national clout. He is notoriously publicity shy and reclusive. Business...

Beware the one-party autocracy

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The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....

Anti-LGBTQ terror, corporate hypocrites, militant workers

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Several years ago, corporate America began to celebrate LGBTQ Pride month with rainbow-patterned merchandise and participation in parades. Ryan Cooper, writing in The American...