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.
Pay attention folks, because George W and the congress are quietly maneuvering our country into another war that has nothing to do with any terrorist threat to America.
Posted on Mar 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Did Dick Cheney, as vice president of Halliburton Oil, help rebuild Iraq's economic machine that now stands accused of sponsoring terrorism? Though he says no, the answer is yes.
Posted on Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Major League Baseball has joined with an internet service to record, digitize and condense a typical three hour game to 30 minutes.
Posted on Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bush is about to take a hit, because millions of Americans are soon to fill out their income tax forms, and they will find that Bush's $300 "rebate" was just an advance withdrawl.
Posted on Mar 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Newly minted doctors are often on the job for 100 or more hours a week, including shifts that run for 36 straight hours. No wonder 100,000 people die a year from medical errors.
Posted on Mar 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Five bankers from Barclay's of London recently got fired after trying to stick their company with a $62,580 tab for one night of expensive dinner and wine.
Posted on Mar 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
To stop industrial polluters from making mess, grabbing the profits and running, the Superfund waste cleanup law was passed in 1980. Thanks to Dubya, it's now weaker than ever.
Posted on Mar 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Since traditional methods of human disposal are inhumane, toxic and gross, why not just wrap Grandpa Ed or old Aunt Em in organic cotton sheets and plant them in the garden?
Posted on Feb 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet
George W, loaded with campaign cash from the nuke industry, recently rubber-stamped their scheme to store radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain. It's safe, he declared. Sure George ... about as safe as letting the baby play with a hand grenade.
Posted on Feb 26, 2002, Source: AlterNet
George W is proving to be a master of the political bait-and-switch scam, saying one thing for political gain, then quietly switching to an entirely different position in his budget proposals.
Posted on Feb 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
When your doctor recommends a particular medicine or treatment for your heart condition, asthma, diabetes, or other ailment ... who's talking to you?
Posted on Feb 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Time for another report [sports theme] from the Wide, Wide, Wide, Wild World of Sports.
Posted on Feb 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Even by Wall Street's corrupt standards, the lobbying assault that the big drug corporations launched shortly after September 11 is hamfisted, selfish, and sleazy.
Posted on Feb 12, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Some doctors are jettisoning the bulk of their patients and re-opening as "boutique" practices that cater exclusively to those who can pay up to $20,000 -- just to be patients.
Posted on Feb 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Well, well, well -- the WTO has bitten its own backers right on the butt.
Posted on Feb 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
While George W's PR flacks keep insisting that the Enron scandal is too complicated for us commoners to follow -- the people themselves seem very engaged and have no trouble connecting all the dots to see the big (and ugly) picture being drawn here.
Posted on Feb 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Like a stunning 4th of July fireworks display, this corporate firecracker keeps lighting up the sky with new revelations of its arrogance and avarice, each one more breathtaking than the last.
Posted on Jan 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The heads of these high-flying firms were getting such massive paychecks that they didn't bother counting the money ... they weighed it.
Posted on Jan 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Andy Young, former mayor of Atlanta, once observed: "Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."
Posted on Jan 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The huge airline maker, which had been in steep decline prior to September 11, saw the attacks as a get-well-quick opportunity.
Posted on Jan 22, 2002, Source: AlterNet
In CorporateWorld, when the going gets tough, the tough get going ... to Washington!
Posted on Jan 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
A mandatory national ID card -- don't you dare leave home without it! -- is the holy grail of autocratic snoopers, a group that columnist William Safire calls "zealots of intrusion."
Posted on Jan 15, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Bill Clinton is pushing himself on the Democratic Party again, trying to get back onto the center stage of national policy-making.
Posted on Jan 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Taxpayers fork over some $500,000 a year in federal crop-support funds so Schwab can be sure that guests at his exclusive hunting club have plenty of ducks to kill.
Posted on Jan 8, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Woodrow Wilson noted that some people who get into high office in Washington grow with the job, while others, like attorney general John Ashcroft, simply swell.
Posted on Dec 26, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Bud Selig, baseball's commisioner and himself a team owner, has been wailing that his league is broke. Well, they're not exactly broke ... just greedy.
Posted on Dec 26, 2001, 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 Dec 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
It is said that you can't commit suicide by strangling yourself, yet that's exactly how the television industry is killing off its news divisions and local stations.
Posted on Dec 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Bush tried to rationalize the corporate bailout as job-creation money, but there's no requirement that corporations getting the $25 billion in handouts have to create a single job.
Posted on Dec 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Like someone dressed up in a Superman suit, John Ashcroft wears a great big "C" on his chest ... for "Conservative."
Posted on Dec 11, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Time for another trip [far-out space music] into the Far, Far, Far-Out Frontiers of Free Enterprise. Where corporations say one thing and do another.
Posted on Dec 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Time for another "Gooberhead Award" -- presented periodically to people in the news who've got their tongues going 100-miles-per-hour ... but forgot to put their brains in gear.
Posted on Dec 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Look out [Hogs snorting] here comes another Hightower Hog Report. CEOs of major U.S. corporations are gorging themselves with fat pay checks.
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Under Bush's new rule, global mining giants are free not only to do harm to our environment and communities but to do "irreparable harm."
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Why have we singled out a country that is already so devastated by decades of invasions and wars that you can't tell the "before" aerial photos from those taken after our bombs explode?
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Enron and its leader Kenneth Lay once strutted to the tune of $100 billion a year in gross income. But lately, the Texas giant has been brought down by scandal.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The WTO are not after China's markets, but after the dirt cheap labor, cheap land, and non-existent enforcement of environmental protections.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Terrorists have no ability to destroy our democracy -- but we do, simply by keeping our mouths shut while greedheads and politicians dismantle our ideals. Here's how we can resist.
Posted on Nov 14, 2001, Source: Hightower Lowdown
Corporate America has been running a blizzard of patriotic ads since September 11, wrapping their corporate corpus with our flag, shouting "God Bless America," and declaring "United we stand!" But are they really with us?
Posted on Nov 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Foreign terrorists are not the only ones assaulting Americans. Try our own congress.
Posted on Nov 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
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