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.
This deliberate manipulation of our news is more than outrageous – it's a frontal assault on our democracy and is totally disrespectful of the American people.
Posted on Mar 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Are you smart enough to be a banker with the U.S. government's export-import bank?
Posted on Mar 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The scandals of George W.'s Iraq attack continue to come home to haunt us.
Posted on Mar 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Bush's presidential practices back here in America are often the exact opposite of what he's preaching to other countries.
Posted on Mar 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Even in the rare case when economic reality confronts him, George doesn't get it.
Posted on Mar 11, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In a gusher of political irony, guess what? The oil giants have little interest in drilling the pristine reaches of ANWR!
Posted on Mar 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
If the Bushites tell us extraordinary security measures are essential, how did a loose cannon like "Jeff Gannon" get to sashay around the White House so freely for two years?
Posted on Mar 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
While George himself rushed out to denounce the rumors of a draft,
Rolling Stone magazine recently unearthed an internal Selective Service memo that reveals the lie.
Posted on Mar 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
By holding down your wages, corporations fatten their profits, stock prices rise, and Wall Street's high-rolling investors rejoice.
Posted on Feb 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The greatest embarrassment for neo-con theorists is that the recent elections in Iraq produced the exact opposite of what they assumed.
Posted on Feb 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Athletes are richly rewarded for finding an "edge" and doing what is necessary to get an advantage in order to "win, baby, win!"
Posted on Feb 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sadistic, high-tech fiends have now joined with a giant European retail chain to further depersonalize the shopping experience and make going to the mall as joyous as getting a root canal.
Posted on Feb 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
What we have here is Bush & Company routinely and cynically using your and my tax dollars to use the media to propagandize you and me. Where's the accountability for these corrupters?
Posted on Feb 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
For real accountability, George might want to have a heart-to-heart with Dante Zappala, a man who lost his brother in Iraq during a search for non-existent WMDs.
Posted on Feb 9, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In the Wonderland of BushWorld, modesty is no virtue, and hubris is to be celebrated—so party down, y'all!
Posted on Feb 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Public officials today—from George W. Bush to city council members— are reaching for the budget axe to whack library funding, forcing branches to close, valuable services to be eliminated, and hours to be cut.
Posted on Feb 2, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In 2004, the American economy bought $600 billion more in products from foreign countries – especially China – than we sold to them. This is the exact opposite of a good business plan.
Posted on Jan 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
We need economic growth, not economic consolidation. Corporate profits are way up, but instead of increasing wages, swaggering CEOs are diverting America's investment capital into buying out competitors.
Posted on Jan 26, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Money seems to be the most common moral corrupter of those on the far right who so loudly profess to be America's arbiters of proper behavior.
Posted on Jan 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The main thing that the Bushites' highly touted missile defense system can be counted on is to hit the federal budget.
Posted on Jan 19, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Sleazy financial coroporations prey on financially strapped vets who face some personal crisis and need quick cash. Only later do these desperate veterans realize that they've been robbed.
Posted on Jan 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Juries, Bush wailed, are handing out such massive judgments to patients who sue that entire hospitals, groups of doctors, and other medical businesses are shutting down. Problem is, it just ain't so.
Posted on Jan 12, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The airlines are now seeking regulatory approval for new technology that will let the noisy ones natter into their cell phones clear across the country.
Posted on Jan 8, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A creeping (and increasingly creepy) intrusion industry is pushing aggressively into our everyday lives, bolstered by government laws and money.
Posted on Jan 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Why should a soldier who's made such an extreme sacrifice be treated so shabbily?
Posted on Jan 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Social Security is going broke! Hogwash. Without changing anything, Social Security is financially sound for the next 40 years.
Posted on Dec 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Let's reflect a moment on the moral teaching of this man from Nazareth.
Posted on Dec 25, 2004, Source: AlterNet
I'm sending Donnie Rumsfeld a six-month stint as a grunt in Iraq, assigned to drive one of those vehicles that he still hasn't outfitted with life-protecting armor.
Posted on Dec 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
If political pundits claim Red State family values are stronger and fundamentally more moral, then why does a Blue State have the lowest divorce rate in the nation?
Posted on Dec 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
While top executives get a gleaming golden parachute, the other 30,000 employees are on their own – goodbye and good luck.
Posted on Dec 15, 2004, Source: AlterNet
"Support Our Troops" has to be more tangible than putting a yellow magnet on your car. That's rhetoric, not support.
Posted on Dec 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Ultra-right conservatives constantly preach about the moral failings of the rest of us – yet they keep getting caught with their own pants down, morally speaking.
Posted on Dec 8, 2004, Source: AlterNet
"Being Bush" seems like a joyful, almost dreamlike experience.
Posted on Dec 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
For the Bushites, the word reform means "deform," to monkeywrench the system so the rich get richer ... and the rest of us get schtooked.
Posted on Dec 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Will George W's intention to stop frivolous lawsuits work the other way and keep pesky corporations from suing us oridinary Joes and Jills?
Posted on Nov 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A mandate? The Bushites barely got 51 percent of the vote, meaning 49 percent of the people voted to toss them out on their duffs.
Posted on Nov 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Public school kids are taught a big lesson in life: Cash is more important than values.
Posted on Nov 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The possiblity of branding humans for our "convenience" could put a big smile on the face of Big Brother.
Posted on Nov 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Petco Park Stadium doesn't prompt sports fans to go out and buy a bag of doggie bones. It's about CEO ego.
Posted on Nov 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The boss hog is still wallowing in the big bucks, now taking an average of more than $11 million a year in personal pay.
Posted on Nov 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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