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.
Developers are turning new downtowns -- flush with corporate chains like GAP and Starbucks -- into a cartoonish, inauthentic version of American downtowns of yesteryear.
Posted on Aug 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Power corrupts -- and absolute power corrupts absolutely -- and it's this overbearing corporate power that has to be addressed in the wake of dirty corporate practices.
Posted on Jul 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Representative Bill Thomas' proposal allows corporate tax dodgers to avoid paying their tax share by simply acquiring a mailbox in Bermuda or filing papers in Barbados.
Posted on Jul 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Corporations are determined to turn our most essential resource into another commodity for traders and speculators.
Posted on Jul 24, 2002, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Harvey Pitt, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, who's supposed to keep Wall Street bankers, brokers and accountants in line, is more lapdog than watchdog.
Posted on Jul 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft are the Four Horsemen of Autocracy, passionate practitioners of secretive, executive government.
Posted on Jul 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
George Bush's speech on corporate resonsibility was political posturing at its most embarassing.
Posted on Jul 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A new survey of 100 researchers says that nine out of 10 admitted they had financial ties to the drug industry.
Posted on Jul 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Martha Stewart and Ken Lay aren't the only ones who have sold off their own holdings before a company's stock price crashes. Try the twice-failed businessman George W. Bush.
Posted on Jul 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Very few consumers are aware that their computers are not only loaded with software and memory, but they also contain lead, mercury, polyvinyl chloride and other toxins.
Posted on Jul 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Bush-backed, industry-written prescription drug bill is a sham to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry, rather than to meet the critical health needs of seniors.
Posted on Jul 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Professional Golf Association has teamed with a developer to build a water-sucking, water-contaminating "PGA Village" in Texas, which will sit underneath an underground aquifer.
Posted on Jul 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Former Enron lobbyist and current chairman of the Republican National Committee is hoping that you'll take part in the official census of the Republican party.
Posted on Jun 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Never have so few sold out so many for so little.
Posted on Jun 24, 2002, Source: AlterNet
To think that greed is simply greed misses the nuances of avarice.
Posted on Jun 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Why do I feel an urge to click my boot heels whenever Bush, Ashcroft & Gang bark out the phrase, "Homeland Security?"
Posted on Jun 17, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Time for another Gooberhead Award [Beanie-cap Breakdown], presented periodically to someone in the news who has their tongue running 100-miles-per-hour...but forgot to put their brain in gear.
Posted on Jun 11, 2002, 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 Jun 11, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Cadillac has gone folksy. The car that's long been known for its snob appeal has come out with a pickup truck.
Posted on Jun 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Meet James Howard of Brooklyn, New York: 42, diabetic, blind in one eye, takes care of his disabled wife and their kids, a tenth-grade dropout, relegated to poverty jobs, a hard worker.
Posted on Jun 4, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been calling on energy trading corporations to confess, under oath, whether they have been doing any of the down-and-dirty deals that the devilish Enron got caught making.
Posted on May 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A computer chip about the size of a dime has already been implanted into the upper backs of several people in our country. It's called VeriChip, and its future is very vague.
Posted on May 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes I think that the Bush Administration is conspiring to feed me good material. Their latest: Jimmy Carter's Cuba trip, prompting the White House to flail furiously at Castro.
Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Here's a terrific idea: Let's condemn Fidel Castro for not allowing enough freedom for Cuban citizens ... then let's punish him by curtailing the freedom of our own citizens.
Posted on May 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
You've heard of the Little Shop of Horrors, but now comes the Little Boutique of Retail Ethnography.
Posted on May 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Woody Guthrie once wrote about the two levels of thieves in our society: "Some'll rob you with a six gun, and some with a fountain pen."
Posted on May 14, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Lawrence Small may be perfectly named for the job he's doing.
Posted on May 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
GOP leaders have gotten their tights in a twist because, they allege, the dastardly Democrats have stolen one of the Republican's favorite political slogans.
Posted on May 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Attention Kmart shoppers, we've got a blue-light-special up on the top floor.
Posted on Apr 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Being an idiot is no bar to being a member of congress, and as exhibit number one to prove this point, I offer the fatuous Bob Barr.
Posted on Apr 30, 2002, Source: AlterNet
From union busting to Chinese sweatshops, there are a thousand reasons to worry about Wal-Mart.
Posted on Apr 26, 2002, Source: Hightower Lowdown
There's an old saying in Chicago politics: Before you dance on someone's grave, be sure he's dead.
Posted on Apr 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Time for another report [Sports Theme] from the "Wide, Wide Wide, WILD World of Sports."
Posted on Apr 23, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Greenspan never lets reality intrude on his belief in laissez-faire ideology, so he sees no problem with the abusive power that corporate behemoths have amalgamated.
Posted on Apr 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Today's Goober goes to Rep. Patrick Tiberi, a Republican congress critter from Ohio.
Posted on Apr 16, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Let's go to the sports desk [Sports theme] for the Wide, Wide, Wide, WILD World of Sports!
Posted on Apr 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
What is it with George W. and his gang of super-secretive White House authoritarians?
Posted on Apr 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Toy barons are afraid that someday youngsters might begin asking: Where are the factories that make my toys? How old are the workers? How do they live? Do they have toys?
Posted on Apr 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Thomas White, the Secretary of the Army, seems to have pocketed $12 million in Enron stock sales through insider info. Why is he still on the public payroll?
Posted on Apr 2, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The plutocratic autocracy that is the Bush White House has been imperiously dismissive of America's Constitutional systems of checks and balances, attempting to govern by executive fiat.
Posted on Mar 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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