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, 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 |
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Views Sunday, April 19, 2020 Coronavirus and Small Government Sociopathy Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: "Where's the government?" These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but people of all political stripes (including previously apolitical multitudes) who are now clamoring for big government intervention in their lives... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 08, 2020 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, February 23, 2020 The Lie of Healthcare 'Choice' Lyndon Johnson had a saying about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: “They can’t make chicken salad out of chicken (bleep)!” Yet chicken (bleep) is all that the corporate health complex has to work with as it frantically tries to defend its... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 13, 2020 The Irony of the Centrist-Progressive Debate With dozens of Democratic candidates, scores of televised debates, and swarms of reporters and pundits descending on the tiniest blip in polls, this campaign already feels never-ending. But at long last, we’re beginning what matters: Voting! This year, in addition to decisions about candidates,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Health Care for People...or for Corporate Profits? When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment trying to win some specific progressive change for the common good, the odds against them can seem daunting. As an old saying puts it: Where there's a will ... there are 1,000 won'ts. Even though we Americans pay by far the highest... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 29, 2020 After a Half Century of Corporate Dominance Over the Food Economy, Change Is Coming As we hurtle into the 2020s, the future of our food economy (and food itself) remains a fiercely contested competition between diametrically opposed visions: a negative pole consisting of the concentrated forces of corporate agriBusiness, which view the dinner plate strictly in terms of their own... Read more |