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.
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
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
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
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
The Good Food movement is leading the charge against expensive, nutrient-free, artificial, unhealthy, corporate crap-food.
Posted on Apr 6, 2006
Washington may be squandering our democratic promise, but out beyond the Beltway, America's progressive grassroots are thriving.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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
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
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
It's time for another trip into the Far, Far, Far, Far-out World of Free Enterprise.
Posted on Jun 18, 2005
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
Surely Scott McClellan has now learned that people who live in a glass White House shouldn't throw rocks.
Posted on May 25, 2005
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sadly for Tom, there's no cosmetic procedure that will cover the ugly gaps in his ethical behavior.
Posted on Apr 23, 2005
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
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
It's good to know that our congress critters are not completely obtuse about the needs of their constituents.
Posted on Apr 13, 2005
Poor ol' Tom DeLay. Well, he's not really poor, but Tom is feeling poorly these days.
Posted on Apr 9, 2005
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