Stories by Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the new book, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow." (Wiley, March 2008) He publishes the monthly "Hightower Lowdown," co-edited by Phillip Frazer.
Where else can raw ignorance rise to such high places -- and then flaunt itself shamelessly for all to see?
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: AlterNet
ACORN helps the poor become political and economic players. That's why the money powers unleashed right-wing politics to go after ACORN with a blood lust.
Posted on Jan 25, 2010, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Our financial rulers were so intoxicated with the fumes of their own omnipotence that they failed abjectly as regulators, as public servants and, most certainly, as gods.
Posted on Jan 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Welcome to the latest reach by commercial hucksters to cover every square inch of America the Beautiful with ads.
Posted on Jan 14, 2010, Source: AlterNet
I was working on my list of New Year's resolutions when it occurred to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions.
Posted on Dec 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Democratic majority in the House pushed through a widely ballyhooed set of reforms. Pelosi promised "the most honest, ethical and open Congress in history. How'd that work out?
Posted on Dec 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Cut the music, and let's all ponder what Barack Obama, Roberts Gates, Stanley McChrystal and Co. are getting us into ... and whether we really want to go there.
Posted on Dec 2, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.
Posted on Nov 23, 2009, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Top executives were initially hurt by the public's moral outrage. But their sense of entitlement quickly kicked in, and now they claim they're the good guys.
Posted on Nov 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The latest job numbers mock the smiley-faced claims of economists and polticos that the Great Recession is over.
Posted on Nov 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Members of Congress and their families are blessed with their very own gold-plated, taxpayer-financed, Washington-run health care system.
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
When the tiny Rock Art Brewery in Vermont decided to name its beer "The Vermonster," they soon discovered that a behemoth drinks company was trying to push them around.
Posted on Oct 21, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
FDR, when he faced deep and spreading national insecurity, made jobs first -- not last. And so should Obama.
Posted on Oct 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Entrusting Baucus with the heavy job of shepherding health care reform through the upper chamber is like asking Tweety Bird to lift a bowling ball.
Posted on Oct 10, 2009, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The bankers who brought us the disaster of 2008 have created a new financial instrument called "life settlements" -- call it morbid capitalism.
Posted on Oct 2, 2009, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Food corporations are hoping to cash in on the growing public concern about nutrition by launching a program that labels some junk food healthy.
Posted on Sep 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Since Astroturf itself is made up of petroleum, there's a certain poetic symmetry in having Big Oil produce the silliest astroturf campaign yet.
Posted on Aug 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Starbucks is now striving to be the anti-Starbucks, dressing up as funky neighborhood coffeehouses with a cool vibe.
Posted on Aug 12, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Thanks to corporate-friendly policies enacted under the Bush Administration, the legal organic standard is filled with loopholes.
Posted on Aug 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The largest banking chains are going out of their way to stiff us.
Posted on Jul 10, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.
Posted on Jul 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
What's going on here is not the "magic of the marketplace," but some hocus-pocus by brand-name dealers.
Posted on Jun 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
China now owns one of the West's most decadent consumer products.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Now is the time for us to flex some grass-roots political muscle and force Obama to stick to his promise to stop mountaintop coal removal.
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Contamination has become so widespread that major frozen food purveyors admit they can no longer ensure the safety of their products.
Posted on May 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Goldman holds billions in taxpayer cash, plans for billions in exec bonuses this year, and has powerful friends in Obama's govt. up the wazoo.
Posted on May 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Yet more evidence that the banks own Washington.
Posted on May 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Our fight against moneyed elites has more than 100 years of history.
Posted on May 8, 2009, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The Governor of Texas is one bad haircut away from Blagojevichian levels of gubernatorial gooberness.
Posted on Apr 25, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
The "too big" claim forms the rationale for the diversion of regular people's money into rich people's pockets.
Posted on Apr 4, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
As Obama begins winding down the war in Iraq, he is building up his own war farther east. Like Bush, he will depend on private military contractors.
Posted on Mar 28, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
3/4 of Americans want to see a huge worker protection bill pass through Congress, and the greedy corporations are running scared.
Posted on Mar 16, 2009, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Are right-wingers really claiming that the U.S. has never been riven by class resentment? Get out your history books.
Posted on Mar 12, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Not for nothing is that country called "the burial ground of empires," "a guerilla's paradise" and "the theme park of problems."
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
In no time at all the treasury secretary has reduced Obama's populist bark to a puppy whimper. What are we going to do about it?
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Those poor, unappreciated Wall Street execs keep whining about the prospect of pay caps. Someone pass a hankie.
Posted on Feb 13, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
The CIA plans to lift us to victory -- one libido at a time!
Posted on Feb 7, 2009, Source: JimHightower.com
Washington shouldn't reward Wall Street's culture of excess. Instead, it should insist that those who wrecked the economy be fired.
Posted on Feb 5, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Our economy didn't melt down, it was taken down the unbridled greed of economic elites, enabled by their political courtesans in Washington.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Living in a small town and being able to field dress a moose does not make Palin a populist, no matter how much pundits want to pretend it does.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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