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.
The Constitution is being trampled and nothing less than American democracy itself is endangered -- a presidential coup is taking place. Where is Congress?
Posted on Oct 23, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
A new animal-tracking system could put Big Brother in your backyard -- even if you're not a farmer.
Posted on Sep 19, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
How "reputable" financial firms are using an arsenal of tricks to extract high payments from homeowners, drain their equity and steal their homes.
Posted on Aug 22, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
In these weird times of privatization fever, selling off bridges, toll roads and airports is no longer considered preposterous -- for the billionaires who can afford them it's good business.
Posted on Jul 23, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department is known for being in charge of America's color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system, a sham that obscures HSD's real mission: to serve as a giant federal cookie jar for corporate America.
Posted on Jun 20, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
After committing troops to a war that has left hundreds of thousands dead and millions without homes, George W. Bush says he prays for safety and peace. Way to go, Georgie, shift the responsibility for your mess to God.
Posted on May 26, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Electoral reform isn't just starry-eyed theory: Clean elections are taking place in states from Arizona to North Carolina, reversing the big-money corruption that rampages throughout our political system.
Posted on Feb 26, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Wal-Mart is making over its image to cater to a more affluent crowd. But behind its increasingly upscale image are the same lowbrow business tactics.
Posted on Jan 30, 2007, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The voters had their way: Now there are reasons to be cheerful -- and vigilant -- about a Democratic Congress.
Posted on Dec 28, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
It's not the terrorists who are targeting and destroying the heart of America; it's Bush & Co.!
Posted on Nov 29, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Criss-crossing the country, I've learned most people are over the red-state/blue-state talk and are aching for politics that matter to them.
Posted on Oct 25, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
After promising to save them, Bush has abandoned our most beautiful public spaces.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
An illegal war, a long list of eroded rights, and a country run by and for the benefit of corporate campaign donors -- all courtesy of the imperial presidency.
Posted on Aug 23, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Bush's prescription-drug program is a boondoggle for America's fraud-ridden health-industrial complex. A better choice is available, and it's time to fight for it.
Posted on Jun 20, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
While claiming that they must 'secure' America for a post-9/11 world, the BushCheney zealots are taking us back to a pre-1776 world.
Posted on May 24, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The Bush administration has pushed hard for limitless powers to spy on, imprison and torture American citizens in the name of 'security.' Is this really what America stands for?
Posted on Apr 26, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
The Good Food movement is leading the charge against expensive, nutrient-free, artificial, unhealthy, corporate crap-food.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Washington may be squandering our democratic promise, but out beyond the Beltway, America's progressive grassroots are thriving.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
As General Motors shuts down well-paid middle-class jobs, the old slogan 'What's good for G.M. is good for America' no longer applies.
Posted on Jan 24, 2006, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Santa, don't bring me any stuff. The one and only thing I want is this: A real Democratic party, alive and kicking!
Posted on Dec 22, 2005, Source: Hightower Lowdown
If you flew in June of 2004 the Transportation Security Administration now has a file on you, amassing such passenger records as our names, phone numbers, and credit card info.
Posted on Jul 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's time for another trip into the Far, Far, Far, Far-out World of Free Enterprise.
Posted on Jun 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Using a scam called "location incentives," major corporations that plan to open a new facility routinely bilk millions of dollars from us taxpayers to subsidize their move.
Posted on Jun 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Surely Scott McClellan has now learned that people who live in a glass White House shouldn't throw rocks.
Posted on May 25, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Why put this iron clamp on a supposed Iraqi democracy? Because the Bushites don't trust the new leaders or the idea of real democracy.
Posted on May 21, 2005, Source: AlterNet
On Earth Day, George gets to ride on Air Force One to some national park where he can pose as Environmental Man all day long. This year, Mother Nature messed it up.
Posted on May 18, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Excellent. Professor George W.'s "60-day, 60-city, traveling medicine show" to sell the miracle cure of his Social Security privatization tonic to us gullible rubes--has been a bust.
Posted on May 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
You're not getting a multimillion-dollar inheritance? Well tough luck, sucker, for Washington's relief package does nothing for you.
Posted on May 7, 2005, Source: AlterNet
You think you're the only one who's having a rough time in today's economy, Bucko? It's time you started thinking about someone else ... such as the rich.
Posted on May 4, 2005, Source: AlterNet
One of the worst aspects of the global corporate culture is that it routinely pits one group of workers against another in the corporate pursuit of dirt-cheap labor.
Posted on Apr 27, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sadly for Tom, there's no cosmetic procedure that will cover the ugly gaps in his ethical behavior.
Posted on Apr 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Where are all those "free-trade" ideologues now that their theories have turned out to be bunkum, devastating American working families?
Posted on Apr 20, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Special interests keep finding ways to sneak around the will of the people--especially when most campaign financing laws are riddled with loopholes.
Posted on Apr 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
It's good to know that our congress critters are not completely obtuse about the needs of their constituents.
Posted on Apr 13, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Poor ol' Tom DeLay. Well, he's not really poor, but Tom is feeling poorly these days.
Posted on Apr 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Bushites are pushing ferociously for quick passage of their scheme to privatize our Social Security system, backed by political front groups funded by the Wall Street interests that will make a killing if the scheme passes.
Posted on Apr 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Naming the names behind the grab for Social Security.
Posted on Apr 5, 2005, Source: Hightower Lowdown
There's a word for people who take money from others under false pretenses. The word is: criminal.
Posted on Apr 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The latest revelation is that various agencies under Bush are sending out hundreds of government-made "news videos" to local television stations.
Posted on Mar 30, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Last year's Big Lie was a grab for oil; this year's is for our Social Security trillions.
Posted on Mar 26, 2005, Source: Hightower Lowdown
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