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.
More than 500 American soldiers have now died in Bush's ongoing Iraqi war. Untold thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have also died.
Posted on Feb 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
George W has come up with a bold idea that I enthusiastically support. Bush says he wants to go to the moon and to Mars, and I, for one, see no reason not to send him there! Who are we to stand in the way of progress?
Posted on Jan 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Halliburton keeps sinking deeper and deeper into the goo of crass political cronyism.
Posted on Jan 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
But which government was it that had helped build up Saddam's military and had winked at the very chemical weapons that the Bush administration now condemns?
Posted on Jan 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
In case you were busy drinking eggnog and missed this story, BushCo delivered a lovely Christmas gift to the timber industry just before the holiday break.
Posted on Jan 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The very idea of advertisers is to intrude into your head, doing whatever it takes to get there and plant a brand name like some alien pod of commercialization.
Posted on Jan 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A company called Applied Digital Solutions wants you to undergo a surgical procedure to implant a tiny RFID microchip in your arm.
Posted on Jan 13, 2004, Source: AlterNet
As a patriotic, taxpaying American, I for one, am proud to see that George W. Bush is defending our shores against one of the more important terrorist threats to the American people: Cuban cigars.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
New laws Bush pushed through congress allow FBI agents to go get your personal financial records -- without your approval or knowledge.
Posted on Jan 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Today, there's a new brute on the block, exerting more power over America's economy than the Robber Barons could dream of. It is Wal-Mart.
Posted on Dec 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
An enormous amount of the damage being done by the salmon factories goes unnoticed despite its tremendous impact on salmon lovers and the environment.
Posted on Dec 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
At last, the Golden Age of television is upon us again! But, alas, this is not the golden age of TV quality -- but literally the age of TV gold, when advertisers have become the programming.
Posted on Dec 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Bushites are spending billions of our tax dollars in an anti-democratic lockdown to keep public information from... well, us -- the tax-paying public.
Posted on Dec 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The Powers That Be -- both political and corporate -- are experts at fooling themselves... while mistakenly thinking that they're also fooling us.
Posted on Dec 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Here's a new political slogan with some integrity and democratic gravitas to it: "Let's run government like a government."
Posted on Dec 16, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Canada? A people so gentle that their national flag features a maple leaf? What threat are they?
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Ho-Ho-Ho, shouts Corporate America -- 'tis the season to Buy-Buy-Buy!
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The White House's cold avoidance of any public mourning of the more than 400 coffins that have come back to our country from George W's war in Iraq is disheartening.
Posted on Dec 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
It seems like only yesterday that Wall Street, Washington, and the media were insisting that the flaming collapse of Enron was nothing but an extraordinary exception to "the norm" of corporate America's high ethical standards.
Posted on Dec 2, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Soldiers put themselves in the way of horrendous harm, only to be betrayed by a money-grubbing, draft-dodging, commander-in-chief who's shamelessly trying to stiff them.
Posted on Nov 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
It's time to venture again into the Far, Far, Far-out Frontiers of Free Enterprise.
Posted on Nov 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Wall Street wolves and congressional opportunists of both parties insist Social Security is doomed to failure and facing an imminent financial crisis.
Posted on Nov 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Nabors has a hotshot high-dollar Washington lobbyist trying to ram through a behind-the-scenes law that would let it both abandon America and take American business from taxpaying American companies.
Posted on Nov 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Wal-Mart, the recidivist criminal, is back in trouble with the law.
Posted on Nov 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Like a bad tamale, Halliburton, Inc. keeps repeating on us.
Posted on Nov 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes I miss the old days. Remember back when "war profiteering" actually was thought to be a bad thing? Indeed, Harry Truman considered it treason.
Posted on Nov 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The next time some warmongering politico or puff headed talk-radio pontificator asks why rebel groups of the world seem to "hate" America, say one word back to them: Bolivia.
Posted on Nov 4, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The rich get richer the old-fashioned way: They cut insider, scratch-my-back deals with each other.
Posted on Oct 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
I've never seen such jaw-dropping stupidity as the latest proposal from George W's interior department.
Posted on Oct 27, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Even after 50 million Americans -- including yours truly -- signed up for the do-not-call list that congress approved, the industry just kept coming.
Posted on Oct 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The president abhors dissent and is totally dismissive not only of dissenters, but also of the people's right to dissent.
Posted on Oct 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet
What is it with John Ashcroft? There doesn't seem to be any of our liberties that this maniacal, messianic autocrat will not gleefully assault.
Posted on Oct 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Minnesota right wingers have put out an ugly post-mortem bumper sticker that angrily says of Paul Wellstone: "He's dead, get over it."
Posted on Oct 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet
If you wonder why your taxes, keep going up, up, up -- one big reason is that corporations keep finding sneaky ways to dodge paying their share of the burden.
Posted on Oct 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
By a bipartisan vote, our public servants have lifted the wage floor for themselves by another $3,000 each.
Posted on Oct 6, 2003, Source: AlterNet
How deeply can George W stick his head into the thawing tundra before having to admit that, yes, global warming just might be a wee bit of a problem for us?
Posted on Sep 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
We've got a real-life monster that comes from within, grows bigger and bigger every year, and is steadily devouring our democracy: Corporate Money.
Posted on Sep 30, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Big Brother is no longer a paranoid's nightmare -- he's alive and living deep inside the Pentagon.
Posted on Sep 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
American corporations -- outfits that never cease to amaze with their clever ability to stiff their own employees.
Posted on Sep 23, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Fecal dust -- invisible hog-stuff particles -- drift through the air for nearby residents to breathe.
Posted on Sep 15, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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