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 Friday, August 14, 2020 This Pandemic Brings Out the Worst in Our CEOs As horrible as the COVID-19 crisis is, it has brought out the best in the American people—the selflessness of front-line nurses and doctors, for example, as well as the generous community spirit of local food businesses. But it has also amplified one of the worst flaws in our society, namely the “... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 12, 2020 Want to Get Into Some 'Good Trouble'? Join the Fight to Save Our Post Office Every now and then, an enormously beneficial soul comes along — someone whose work is so productive, honest and inspirational that he or she ought not be allowed to die. That's how I felt last month when I heard that John Lewis had slipped away from us. Since the late 1980s, it had been my good... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 08, 2020 Sacrificing People to Corporate Profit I think I've figured out the real reason President Donald Trump refuses to wear a coronavirus mask: He realizes that we'd all recognize him as the masked robber who has been moving furtively behind the scenes during the pandemic to rig the rules against workaday folks in order to further enrich... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 01, 2020 The GOP's Grotesque Response to a Pandemic Will Never Be Forgotten Harking back to the embarrassing days of Gov. Rick "Oops" Perry, my state of Texas is once again saddled with a Republican gubernatorial goober. Greg Abbott is this guy's name, and he's another incompetent right-wing ideologue whose botched handling of our state's COVID-19 crisis makes President... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 17, 2020 COVID-19 Is Prompting a Societywide Recalculation Laissez-faire ideologue Ronald Reagan used to delight in mocking the very idea that government should provide health protection, food aid, income support or other public assistance to people in need. The Gipper derided "big government" as both a hopeless bungler and an insatiable beast that devours... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 03, 2020 The Militarization of 'Officer Friendly' From 1776 forward, Americans have opposed having soldiers do police work on our soil, but in recent years, Pentagon chiefs have teamed up with police chiefs to circumvent that prohibition. How? Simply by militarizing police departments. Through the little-known 1033 program, the Pentagon has been... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Trump Blasts Into a New Frontier...for War Bring on Captain Kirk, Spock and the whole intrepid "Star Trek" cast. And while you're at it, toss in some "Dr. Strangelove," for President Donald Trump is on a mission to turn science fiction into official military policy. Or is it the reverse? Either way, he's casting himself as a cosmic warrior... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 06, 2020 What's the Difference Between Corporate CEOs and Pigs? Monty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump—until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation's biggest bagger of government cash in the emergency Paycheck Protection Program. The PPP is the $660 billion rescue package for... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 29, 2020 Why the Madman in the White House Wants to Kill the Post Office Amid a Pandemic One thing we've learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump & Company from exploiting it for their plutocratic political purposes. Obviously, COVID-19 is a god-awful crisis, having killed more than 55,000 Americans so far while also killing most of the U.S... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 22, 2020 The Deadly Economic Disease Behind COVID-19 In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in solidarity to the hard-hit working class. We know they're doing this, because they keep telling us they are — practically every brand-name giant has been spending millions of dollars... Read more |