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.
With the existence of a national ID card requirement, citizens would just have more trouble moving about freely on what we once hailed as the Land of the Free.
Posted on Nov 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Yellow smiley-face guys are our current propaganda tactic to spread good news about the conditions in Iraq.
Posted on Oct 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
From his own board members and creditors, the CEO is about to hear the trademark phrase he uses on his TV show: "You're fired!"
Posted on Oct 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Instead, you, too, could become an "American accent and culture trainer."
Posted on Oct 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Under the Patriot Act, those pesky government noses are making their way into our books.
Posted on Oct 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It's hard to claim the moral high road when you're stumbling down the low road arm-in-arm with repressive dictators.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Hummer is an absurdly-expensive, gas-guzzling, low-performance, high-polluting, gussied-up chunk of automotive junk. Now Hummer cologne distills that into scent.
Posted on Oct 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Getting caught in the crossfire of protesters and the NYPD is somehow your fault if you're put in jail.
Posted on Oct 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Is mass transit part of our future or an endangered government program?
Posted on Oct 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
By Bush cozying up to regimes that are repressive and dictatorial, he has undermined any claim that his foreign policy is on the moral high road.
Posted on Sep 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Call it what you want, the stealing of America's middle class future still continues at an accelerated rate.
Posted on Sep 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Are warnings of a needed "deep fix" within our Social Security system a load of hooey?
Posted on Sep 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The world's first interactive urinal is coming to a restroom near you.
Posted on Sep 18, 2004, Source: AlterNet
AynRandian theorists have longed to create their utopia of a corporate state – now they have an entire economy at their disposal.
Posted on Sep 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Frivolous lawsuits are many times the result of corporate fakes bullying authentic businesses out of business.
Posted on Sep 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Why is our government shilling for insurance giants, fraudulently peddling policies to people who don't need them and will never collect on them?
Posted on Sep 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The invention of the cell phone brings together people of questionable moral integrity to form clubs like the "alibi and excuse club."
Posted on Sep 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Mayor Bloomberg might know the price of the city's soul, but he knows nothing about its value.
Posted on Sep 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Stadiums, arenas, and so forth no longer bear recognizable names, but instead are branded with corporate logos that are Anywhere and Nowhere, USA.
Posted on Aug 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Keating is still lobbying congress to let his corporate clients continue picking the pockets of the underpaid grunts heading to Iraq. Is this the 'freedom' they're being asked to die for?
Posted on Aug 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The corporate arbiters of our public airwaves deem it more important to broadcast re-runs of sit-coms than to cover our nation's quadrennial rituals of democracy.
Posted on Aug 21, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It's bad enough that our young men and women are thrust into a war of lies in Iraq, but it's a moral abomination that insurance gougers are allowed to prey on them at home.
Posted on Aug 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The scam is to work a while at the Pentagon, gain insider knowledge and contacts, then peddle insider connections to corporations wanting more fat contracts from us taxpayers.
Posted on Aug 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Corporations today don't operate in a "free market" – they operate in a greed market, aided and abetted by the political puppets they put in office.
Posted on Aug 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Where there's money, there's always a way, and corporations are resolving their CEOs' Olympic security dilemma by buying luxurious protection packages for them.
Posted on Aug 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Innocents fight Bush's absurd, un-American assault on the constitutional right to dissent.
Posted on Jul 31, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Believe it or not, they are pushing to have Ronnie's face carved into Mt. Rushmore and to off Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with Reagan's likeness.
Posted on Jul 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
They're insane – loopy zealots fueled by their own extremist fumes to implement their plutocratic, autocratic, imperialistic vision of America – and it's time we stopped beating around the bush about it.
Posted on Jul 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The number one job-creator for America's future? Restaurant workers, including fast food. You don't need a high-tech degree, you need a hair net!
Posted on Jul 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The labor department has recently come up with a new set of smiley-faced statistics to try to defuse the politically-explosive reality that CEOs are now offshoring hundreds of thousands of America's middle-class, white collar jobs.
Posted on Jul 21, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The administration has issued new, upbeat talking points, instructing all park personnel not only to speak positively about park conditions, but also to praise George himself for being so good for our parks.
Posted on Jul 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What's to happen to the workers who were made to serve as props for George's pitch about the power of trickle-down economics, then tossed aside?
Posted on Jul 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The tiny nation of Macedonia has now learned that its leaders also have been caught up in the hellish insanity and depravity of Bush's self-declared unlimited war
Posted on Jul 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
What we've now learned from the 9/11 Commission and recent books by White House insiders is that George launched a war for the worst possible reason: Because he could.
Posted on Jul 7, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Austin is hardly alone in suffering a steady erosion of our homegrown businesses to impersonal corporate giants, big-box stores and cookie-cutter chains. It's probably happening where you live, too.
Posted on Jul 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
But keep your BS detectors at the ready, for this agriculture department won't stop trying to sneak ever-slicker and stinkier agribusiness schemes past us.
Posted on Jun 30, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Just for old-times sake, here are a few more golden chestnuts from Ronnie's tenure: James Watt, ketchup as a vegetable, Star Wars, a tax credit for segregated Bob Jones University...
Posted on Jun 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Being bad -- at least for white collar criminals -- can put you in demand on the corporate lecture circuit.
Posted on Jun 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The bottom-line dictates that wages and benefits be slashed and that offshoring be pursued with a vengeance. It's not personal, just business.
Posted on Jun 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Unabashedly progressive and fiercely independent media outlets reach more people than Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network.
Posted on Jun 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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