Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
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Views Wednesday, September 06, 2017 The Gaping Hole in Trump's Border Wall How much of our money does Donald Trump want to pour into his xenophobic fantasy of erecting an impenetrable wall on our Mexican border? The big-businessman-turned-president insists that costs be damned — just build it! That seems to be a very un-businesslike approach — but then, it's not his money... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 09, 2017 Wall Street Thieves Find New Ways to Steal From Us In 2007, their stupid schemes and frauds crashed our economy, destroying middle-class jobs, wealth and opportunities. Far from getting punishment, however, these financial scofflaws were bailed out by their Washington enablers — so the moral lesson they learned was clear: Stupid pays! Sure enough,... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 31, 2017 Billionaire Donors Plot a ‘Renaissance of Freedom’ — for the Privileged Charles and David Koch — the billionaire oil men who’ve financed a vast network of right-wing advocacy groups — have stayed out of the national limelight recently. But they’re still trying to supplant American democracy with their little laissez-fairyland plutocracy. In fact, in late June, they... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 19, 2017 The Partisan Use Of Preemption Is Surging We the People are being burgled. Again. The latest hit is just the latest in a long string of political robberies, a nationwide crime wave being pulled off by moneyed elites and their political henchmen. With each heist, they haul off a little more of our democratic power: the ability of the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 16, 2017 1984 at the Grocery Store Wall Street analysts tell us that Amazon’s $14 billion buyout of Whole Foods isn't only a win-win for both of them, but also for consumers, for Amazon intends to lower the organic grocer's prices. Really? Yes, they say, because Amazon will use its amazing computer-driven tactics to cut Whole Foods... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 14, 2017 The GOP Will Free You from Having Health Care When I think of freedom, I think of it in positive, aspirational terms — our First Amendment freedoms, for example, or FDR's "Four freedoms" or the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people around the globe. But right-wing, corporate-funded ideologues have fabricated a new negative notion... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 21, 2017 Billionaires Lay Siege to State Governments It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus. But a lot of the real action is in the outer rings, where the Koch brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and their corporate cohorts have laid siege to our state governments. It’s no coincidence... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 03, 2017 Populism is Not About Mobs, Anti-Government Rants or Opinion Polls If a political pollster asked whether I consider myself a conservative or a liberal, I'd answer, "No." Not to be cute — I have a bit of both in me — but because, like most Americans, my beliefs can't be squeezed into either of the tidy little boxes that the establishment provides. I've observed... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 19, 2017 To Have A People's Government, We The People Must Build It In high school, I had a girlfriend who was involved in student government and all sorts of good works. While she paid attention to all that was happening in those years of the early '60s, she essentially was a moderate — certainly not some movement rebel. Or so we thought... until one lazy, Sunday... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 16, 2017 Nuns Take On Wells Fargo In an insightful song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie wrote this verse: “As through this world I travel / I see lots of funny men / Some’ll rob you with a 6-gun / Some with a fountain pen.” The fountain pens are doing the serious stealing these days. For example, while you’d get hard time in prison... Read more |