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.
Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.
Posted on Jul 4, 2009
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
China now owns one of the West's most decadent consumer products.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009
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
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
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
Yet more evidence that the banks own Washington.
Posted on May 11, 2009
Our fight against moneyed elites has more than 100 years of history.
Posted on May 8, 2009
The Governor of Texas is one bad haircut away from Blagojevichian levels of gubernatorial gooberness.
Posted on Apr 25, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
Those poor, unappreciated Wall Street execs keep whining about the prospect of pay caps. Someone pass a hankie.
Posted on Feb 13, 2009
The CIA plans to lift us to victory -- one libido at a time!
Posted on Feb 7, 2009
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
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
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
McCain has already assembled his clique of advisors, and they don't have our best interests in mind.
Posted on Sep 1, 2008
Obama's advisers will be the ones whispering in the president's ear and pulling the levers of executive power.
Posted on Aug 28, 2008
America can't shop its way to greatness, and this one-time, government-funded shopping spree won't lead us to a sound economy.
Posted on Mar 28, 2008
The fight for our country's future is still in our hands. Grass-roots movements are breaking free from corporate control.
Posted on Mar 7, 2008
Seal-the-border hysteria is everywhere. Instead of blaming immigrants for America's problems, let's look at executives on both sides of the border.
Posted on Feb 7, 2008
The Democrats' fizzle in the face of the power-grabbing Bush administration is doing serious damage to America's political psyche.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008
Bush & Buckshot are riding their little stick horses, demonizing another Muslim nation -- and the Dems are supporting it. We've got to shut them down.
Posted on Nov 17, 2007
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
A new animal-tracking system could put Big Brother in your backyard -- even if you're not a farmer.
Posted on Sep 19, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
The voters had their way: Now there are reasons to be cheerful -- and vigilant -- about a Democratic Congress.
Posted on Dec 28, 2006
It's not the terrorists who are targeting and destroying the heart of America; it's Bush & Co.!
Posted on Nov 29, 2006
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
After promising to save them, Bush has abandoned our most beautiful public spaces.
Posted on Sep 26, 2006
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
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