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, October 14, 2020 Sabotaging Democracy Little-known fact: In more and more races, the GOP doesn't have broad enough appeal to fairly produce an election majority, so it has resorted to rigging the system so a minority prevails. As far-right tactician Paul Weyrich once bluntly put it: "I don't want everybody to vote. ... Our leverage in... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Trump's Rule of Lies and Partisan Judges Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump puffed himself up in full Trumpian pomposity to proclaim to us rubes: "We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else." Well, "nothing else" ... unless you count a record-shattering number of more than 20,000 documented lies... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 23, 2020 How the Right Rigs Elections Is it really so hard? Voting, I mean — smooth democratic elections with all citizens able to easily cast their ballots and with every ballot fairly counted. Is that too much for people to ask? After all, the mechanisms for assuring universal suffrage are well known, and the logistics are not... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Pandemic in the Plants. The Meat Plants, That Is Until recently, few people considered the sources of their meat. Then, a coronavirus walked into one after another of Meat Inc.'s humongous rural factories, where more than 90% of U.S. bacon, hamburger, chops, wings and other animal parts are processed. Within weeks, the industry's business model—... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 09, 2020 Something Is Rotten at Big Meat Inc. Upton Sinclair's landmark 1905 book, The Jungle , exposed the food contamination and worker exploitation hidden in the fetid stockyards and meatpacking plants of Chicago and other major American cities. The muckraking journalist dubbed the nasty and brutish meat factories "a monster...the Great... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 01, 2020 Six Ways the Right Is Shredding the Vote Is it really so hard, so hard that America just can’t handle it? Voting, I mean–smooth democratic elections with all citizens able to easily cast their ballots and with every ballot fairly counted. Is that too much for people to ask? After all, the mechanisms for assuring universal suffrage are... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Trump's Bass-Ackward Government Gosh, President Donald Trump has really been busy lately: busy assailing Sen. Kamala Harris as "nasty;" busy choosing a new pandemic adviser, whose only qualification is that he praises Trump on Fox News ; and busy dissing and dismantling our post offices. But, instead of all this Trumpian... Read more |
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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 |