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.
In a rush to fatten profits, corporations are feeding our beef, pork and poultry anti-biotics, creating super resistant bacteria in the process.
Posted on Nov 6, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Read the tiny print lest you eat "multipurpose white potato" packaged as mashed sweet potato.
Posted on Nov 6, 2001, Source: AlterNet
When it comes to the way workers are treated in the global economy, you can count on Nike to do the right thing. As long as it's forced to, that is.
Posted on Oct 30, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to the Monsanto corporation, Mexican corn is being contaminated by pollen from genetically altered FrankenCorn, which is banned in Mexico.
Posted on Oct 30, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Our government is pounding Afghanistan, which is of zero economic importance to us, but sparing Saudi Arabia, where the terrorists get their money and support. Why? Oil.
Posted on Oct 23, 2001, Source: AlterNet
In an age of rah-rah corporate spirit, Burger King is the first company that literally tried to fire-up its workers -- by having them walk barefoot on hot coals.
Posted on Oct 23, 2001, Source: AlterNet
I'll be double-damned to hell before I allow our flag to be usurped by political opportunists, corporatists and war-mongerers who confuse conformity with patriotism.
Posted on Oct 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Rather than investing their billion dollar bailout in the US of A, like rehiring 20,000 fired employees, United just wired $600 million to a French company to buy luxury jets.
Posted on Oct 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
While rescuers were still searching the wreckage for survivors, guys in Guccis were combing Capital Hill pleading for an "emergency" cut in their capital gains taxes.
Posted on Oct 9, 2001, Source: AlterNet
When the going gets tough for the very wealthy, they do what regular folks do -- sell stuff in the driveway.
Posted on Oct 9, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The man trying to save America's economy from crashing along with the twin towers has his priorities straight, but they don't include the working class.
Posted on Oct 2, 2001, Source: AlterNet
In anticipation of the impending recession and the massive downsizing effort it will spur, young executives everywhere are taking how-to-fire-someone training.
Posted on Oct 2, 2001, Source: AlterNet
In post-9-11 America, get used to domestic spying, carrying an electronic ID card, being searched and having your movements constantly monitored.
Posted on Sep 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Fuel cells already are powering everything from NASA's space shuttle to the mainframe computer at the First National Bank in Omaha -- and your home might be next.
Posted on Sep 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If you've got a an extra $20,000 a year you're in luck. That's what you'll need to get good health care in this country.
Posted on Sep 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
America has jumped to the top of the work heap because those in charge in Washington and on Wall Street have built our economy around stagnant wages and constant downsizings.
Posted on Sep 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Our "defenders," full of made-for-television bravado, are rushing to protect us by mounting a macho crack-down on -- guess what? -- our freedom!
Posted on Sep 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Today's herd of fat porkers include the boss hogs at Disney, American Express, Cisco Systems, and other corporate fiefdoms that suffered serious financial downturns in the past year.
Posted on Sep 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
For the first time, scientists have found a way to mesh neurons from snail brains with tiny electronic transistors, creating mechanical chips that "speak" to each other.
Posted on Sep 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A company called Leeches USA ships about 30,000 bloodsuckers a year to doctors who specialize in reattaching severed fingers, ears, and other body parts.
Posted on Sep 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Oh dandy. Here comes another service industry "helping out" us customers by eliminating clerks whose job it was to help us out.
Posted on Sep 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Don't be so quick to spend the $300 "rebate" Bush sent you this summer. You might need it come tax time next year.
Posted on Aug 28, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Lest we allow years of labor progress to go wasted, workers must continue to fight to keep the promise of a prosperous future.
Posted on Aug 28, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Promising a clean energy future for Americans, Bush shelves solar, wind, conservation, and other clean sources of power, in favor of coal.
Posted on Aug 21, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Highlighting its support for humanitarian causes, Coca Cola notes that it "does a great service because it encourages people to take in more and more liquids."
Posted on Aug 21, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Corporate pig producers say they're developing a genetically-altered porker that produces a more environmentally-friendly manure. They call it Enviropig. I call in Frankenpig.
Posted on Aug 14, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Only recently did we learn that the last "Star Wars" test was rigged -- the "bad guy" missile had a beacon to guide the "good guy" missile to it.
Posted on Aug 14, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Well, thanks to some whistle blowers, a lot of people's trust in the integrity of Wall Street has recently come tumbling down.
Posted on Aug 7, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Americans need a real vacation (like the one-to-two months provided by our European competitors), and they want and deserve a 35-hour work week.
Posted on Aug 7, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A new Army chemical incinerator in Alabama has locals worried about accidents. But the Army has a plan if deadly gases are released -- duct tape and plastic sheets.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A new surveillance program called "Under the Eagle's Eye" makes post office clerks report on any "suspicious" customers who make monetary transaction at the P.O.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Pharmaceutical firms that sell the 50 most-prescribed drugs to seniors spend twice as much on advertising, marketing, and corporate bureaucracy than they do on developing new drugs.
Posted on Jul 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Now that the Navy has been forced by protesters to abandon its bombing exercises in Puerto Rico, it has been considering bombing a national seashore preserve in South Texas.
Posted on Jul 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Take one part avarice from Monsanto, add one part government arrogance, mix, spray on a foreign country, then cover up the mess with official secrecy. Viola! Colombia.
Posted on Jul 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A British glassmaker has announced that it may start producing the holy grails of home-building products: Glass windows that clean themselves.
Posted on Jul 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
With Jim Jeffords' defection, the Senate Democrats have enough power to move this nation's priorities out of corporate boardrooms and into local communities. Will they?
Posted on Jul 10, 2001, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Little George's overall job-approval rating has dropped to a pitiable 53 percent, and its even worse on specific issues like environment (39 percent) and energy (33 percent).
Posted on Jul 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
America's beer barons are demanding that the federal beer tax of about 25 cents a six pack be cut in half -- which might allow them to jack prices and pocket the profits.
Posted on Jul 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
This July 4th, "Corporate America" flags were unfurled all over the country, with logos of IBM, GE, Nike, CBS, Texaco and other giants replacing the 50 stars.
Posted on Jul 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Karl Rove, the political operative who developed George W's theme of restoring "a new ethical tone," has his butt caught in a tight ethical crack.
Posted on Jun 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
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