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 08, 2019 Let's Re-fund America The powerhouses of Wall Street have tunneled directly into the cloistered backrooms of Washington deal making, extracting trillions of dollars worth of government bailouts, special tax breaks and regulatory favors every year. Yet, in a stupefying act of hypocrisy, they have also been the major... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 01, 2019 Where the Money Is Famed bank robber Willie Sutton once explained that he busted into banks because "that's where the money is." What a small-timer! Corporate thieves—including the biggest banks—know that the big scores are in the tax code and federal budget. America's superrich establishment decided to woo Trump and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 24, 2019 What Is the 'AI Agenda,' Who's Pushing It and Why? The great thing about corporate giants is that they are such amazing business innovators. Look at the Big Four airline oligopoly, for example. They've perfected the unique business model of the "double-squeeze": squeezing more customers into ever-smaller seats while simultaneously squeezing more... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 03, 2019 As We Gape at Trump's Sideshow, Corporations Are Picking Our Pockets As America rapidly urbanized in the 1920s and '30s, nearly every burgeoning city gave rise to a jumbled, boisterous side of town that lay somewhere between exciting and dangerous. One such place in my state, known as "Deep Ellum," was a stretch of Elm Street in East Dallas. A predominantly African... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Trumponomics: Batman...or Dracula? It's shocking, I tell you, shocking that some millionaires and billionaires would brazenly lie and cheat in a corrupt nationwide scheme to rig the entrance procedures of top colleges. As recently reported, these self-entitled elites were gaming the system in order to weasel their undeserving... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 13, 2019 It's Not Socialism; It's What the People Want "Socialism," snarled Donald Trump at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of faithful Trumpistas snarled back in unison: "So-shull-izz-ummm!" And there you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP's 2020 re-election strategy under Generalissimo Trump—slap... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed There's a sports cliche, often applied to political races, that devalues strong-but-losing contenders: "Close only counts in horseshoes," they snort. For building a progressive movement, however, candidates, staffers and volunteers who lose a vote but run good campaigns — especially in tough... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 02, 2019 DIY Democracy What do the workaday majority of Americans want their lawmakers working on? Check any legitimate poll — or just listen to most any barstool conversation down at the Bottoms Up pub — and you'll hear them saying clearly and consistently that they want such basics as middle-class jobs, health care for... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 05, 2018 Putting the Trump Stamp on the Public D.T. (as aides refer to the present occupant of the Oval Office) is really quite good at one special skill: branding. He has slapped his name on a ridiculous range of consumer merch — teddy bears, steaks, made-in-China ties, vodka, underwear and even a urine test. His nasty policies and behavior... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 01, 2018 Free the Free Press From Wall Street Plunder A two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.” It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s campaign to demonize the news media as “the enemy of the people.”... Read more |