The Anderson Files
How Trumpers learned to love Myanmar’s fascist coup
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution that censured the fascist military coup in Myanmar (or Burma) by a 398-14 vote....
Trump and the deep state
Trump and his defenders have claimed that he is the victim of a gigantic conspiracy by the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, President Obama...
The Anderson file: Poetry on a mission
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the celebrated poet and publisher of Beat Generation writers, argued in an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999 that poetry...
Time for the next step in health care
We have been told over and over that the United States has the best health care system on the planet. This notion is contradicted...
The free market fascist assassination on D.C.’s Embassy Row
When the U.S. was attacked on September 11, 2001, people in Chile remembered another 9/11 in 1973. That's when Chile's democratically elected government led...
Progressives divided over county commissioner and sheriff races
You might have noticed that the Boulder County ballot for the Democratic primary has only two contested races. As I was trying to figure...
Did a CU prof almost spark an American coup d’etat?
In August 2020, John Eastman published an op-ed in Newsweek suggesting that Kamala Harris might be unqualified to be vice president because her parents...
Time to re-evaluate Saudi relationship
Mister Bone Saw. That’s what many people around the world are calling Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS). Growing evidence from various...
Colorado’s GOP militia gang
Violent far rightists have been around for some time, but the Jan. 6 hearings have revealed their incestuous relationships with some of the most...
Boulder restaurant workers get scrooged over the holidays
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...
Is this an extinction-level event for American labor?
The labor movement has been reviving in recent years but now it faces stormy weather with the presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court...
White people, Republicans and class
Class has been America’s dirty little secret. We have been told that we are a classless society. Tycoons and politicians regularly adopt an “everyman”...
