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Jim Hightower is an American populist, spreading his message of democratic hope via national radio commentaries, columns, books, his award-winning monthly newsletter (The Hightower Lowdown) and barnstorming tours all across America.
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger The very essence of populism is its unrelenting focus on breaking the iron grip that big corporations have on our country--including on our economy, government, media, and environment. It is unabashedly a class movement. Try to squeeze Lord Limbaugh into that philosophical suit of clothes! He's just another right-wing, corporate-hugging, silk-tie elitist--an apologist for plutocracy, not a populist.
Saturday, May 9, 2009Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger The very essence of populism is its unrelenting focus on breaking the iron grip that big corporations have on our country--including on our economy, government, media, and environment. It is unabashedly a class movement. Try to squeeze Lord Limbaugh into that philosophical suit of clothes! He's just another right-wing, corporate-hugging, silk-tie elitist--an apologist for plutocracy, not a populist.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
What a Holy Mess Our Oil Addiction Is Causing So, God is the one who exploded BP's rig, killed 11 workers, shut down the livelihoods of countless Gulf fishing families and spread a deadly, still-gushing slick of oil across four states. Wow, that's one mean God!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010What a Holy Mess Our Oil Addiction Is Causing So, God is the one who exploded BP's rig, killed 11 workers, shut down the livelihoods of countless Gulf fishing families and spread a deadly, still-gushing slick of oil across four states. Wow, that's one mean God!
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Friday, April 27, 2012
The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery In the past three decades, America's health-care system has radically metamorphosed from a public service network (largely run by independent physicians and nonprofit hospitals) into a corporate profit machine. Drugmakers have been among the most ambitious, in-your-face pushers of this transmutation of medicine into just another commodity to be sold by hook or crook.
Friday, April 27, 2012The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery In the past three decades, America's health-care system has radically metamorphosed from a public service network (largely run by independent physicians and nonprofit hospitals) into a corporate profit machine. Drugmakers have been among the most ambitious, in-your-face pushers of this transmutation of medicine into just another commodity to be sold by hook or crook.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell While top executives of Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and other big investment houses were initially puzzled and hurt by the public's moral outrage, their audacious sense of personal worth and entitlement quickly kicked back in. So Europeans are now witnessing the spectacle of bankers draping themselves in radiant robes of ethical purity.
Thursday, November 19, 2009Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell While top executives of Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and other big investment houses were initially puzzled and hurt by the public's moral outrage, their audacious sense of personal worth and entitlement quickly kicked back in. So Europeans are now witnessing the spectacle of bankers draping themselves in radiant robes of ethical purity.
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Friday, February 2, 2018
Why the Majority of Americans Despise Trump's Washington Words only matter if the speaker actually means them, backing their rhetorical promise with action. As we've seen though, far from draining the swamp, this president proceeded immediately to convert the White House itself into a fetid cesspool of self-serving corporate executives, lobbyists, and banksters.
Friday, February 2, 2018Why the Majority of Americans Despise Trump's Washington Words only matter if the speaker actually means them, backing their rhetorical promise with action. As we've seen though, far from draining the swamp, this president proceeded immediately to convert the White House itself into a fetid cesspool of self-serving corporate executives, lobbyists, and banksters.
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
Like Walmart, only with supercomputers and drones: At Amazon.com "cheap" comes at a very hefty price The temp agencies that are, in essence, the hiring offshoots of Amazon, have long lines of hard-up applicants waiting for every job in its warehouses, so oppressive conditions and ruthless work requirements that constantly cause workers to quit, be fired, or pass out are no problem for Bezos. Amazon smells today's mass desperation, preys on it, and thrives on it.
Thursday, August 14, 2014Like Walmart, only with supercomputers and drones: At Amazon.com "cheap" comes at a very hefty price The temp agencies that are, in essence, the hiring offshoots of Amazon, have long lines of hard-up applicants waiting for every job in its warehouses, so oppressive conditions and ruthless work requirements that constantly cause workers to quit, be fired, or pass out are no problem for Bezos. Amazon smells today's mass desperation, preys on it, and thrives on it.
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
Trump Is Destroying the Farmers Who Voted for Him On March 11 Trump whacked $3.6 billion from the safety-net programs that offer a measure of relief to hard-hit producers when crop prices crash. Revealing his plutocratic core, his cuts specifically targeted programs that benefit small farmers - a deliberate manipulation meant to drive more families off the land and increase corporate monopolization of agriculture.
Thursday, April 4, 2019Trump Is Destroying the Farmers Who Voted for Him On March 11 Trump whacked $3.6 billion from the safety-net programs that offer a measure of relief to hard-hit producers when crop prices crash. Revealing his plutocratic core, his cuts specifically targeted programs that benefit small farmers - a deliberate manipulation meant to drive more families off the land and increase corporate monopolization of agriculture.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Dow Jones Average Is Meaningless for Just About Everybody Our corrupt political officials duped taxpayers into giving away billions in the name of workers to further enrich the super-rich, do nothing for workers, increase inequality in America, divert tax dollars from urgent national needs and enable corporate powers to donate more corrupting campaign cash to the politicians. The Trump tax scam worked just as the GOP intended.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018The Dow Jones Average Is Meaningless for Just About Everybody Our corrupt political officials duped taxpayers into giving away billions in the name of workers to further enrich the super-rich, do nothing for workers, increase inequality in America, divert tax dollars from urgent national needs and enable corporate powers to donate more corrupting campaign cash to the politicians. The Trump tax scam worked just as the GOP intended.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
The Poor Rich and the Scrooginess of Congress Congressional Republicans continue to protect nonsensical tax breaks for Wall Street billionaires and Big Oil, while demanding that programs to aid America's growing number of poor people either be slashed or eliminated. The Obama White House is fighting most of this absurdity, but it keeps trying to appease the GOP by offering to sacrifice programs that ordinary people really need.
Saturday, December 24, 2011The Poor Rich and the Scrooginess of Congress Congressional Republicans continue to protect nonsensical tax breaks for Wall Street billionaires and Big Oil, while demanding that programs to aid America's growing number of poor people either be slashed or eliminated. The Obama White House is fighting most of this absurdity, but it keeps trying to appease the GOP by offering to sacrifice programs that ordinary people really need.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country's food rebels! The growing movement of small farmers, food artisans, local retailers, co-ops, community organizers, restaurateurs, environmentalists, consumers and others. This movement has spread the rich ideas of sustainability, organic, local control and the Common Good from the fringes of our food economy into the mainstream.
Thursday, November 26, 2009Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country's food rebels! The growing movement of small farmers, food artisans, local retailers, co-ops, community organizers, restaurateurs, environmentalists, consumers and others. This movement has spread the rich ideas of sustainability, organic, local control and the Common Good from the fringes of our food economy into the mainstream.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil For Republicans to continue marching in lockstep with Big Oil, despite public outrage at BP's greed, makes no sense at all. But they can't help it -- their knee-jerk response is genetically programmed. They might even have oil in their DNA.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010The GOP's Genetic Link to Big Oil For Republicans to continue marching in lockstep with Big Oil, despite public outrage at BP's greed, makes no sense at all. But they can't help it -- their knee-jerk response is genetically programmed. They might even have oil in their DNA.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
AgriBUSINESS is at war with agriCULTURE What you and I choose to eat, where we choose to get it, what policies and politicians we choose to support or oppose, what groups we choose to help, and whether we even choose to think about the food we eat -- all are choices directly affecting the nature of food production and of food itself.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012AgriBUSINESS is at war with agriCULTURE What you and I choose to eat, where we choose to get it, what policies and politicians we choose to support or oppose, what groups we choose to help, and whether we even choose to think about the food we eat -- all are choices directly affecting the nature of food production and of food itself.
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Monday, January 12, 2015
It's time to knock the Trans-Pacific Partnership off the "Fast Track" With many House Democrats already committed to "no" on TPP's corporate usurpation of our people's sovereign rights, and with a chunk of GOP members already loath to give Obama any unilateral executive power, it's quite possible for our voices to make a difference on the Fast Track vote.
Monday, January 12, 2015It's time to knock the Trans-Pacific Partnership off the "Fast Track" With many House Democrats already committed to "no" on TPP's corporate usurpation of our people's sovereign rights, and with a chunk of GOP members already loath to give Obama any unilateral executive power, it's quite possible for our voices to make a difference on the Fast Track vote.
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Friday, July 22, 2016
What's Next for the Bernie Sanders Revolution? Bernie has urged his supporters to keep pushing for their democratic ideals. "Real change never takes place from the top down. It always occurs from the bottom on up -- when tens of millions of people say 'enough is enough' and become engaged in the fight for justice. That's what the political revolution we helped start is all about. That's why the political revolution must continue."
Friday, July 22, 2016What's Next for the Bernie Sanders Revolution? Bernie has urged his supporters to keep pushing for their democratic ideals. "Real change never takes place from the top down. It always occurs from the bottom on up -- when tens of millions of people say 'enough is enough' and become engaged in the fight for justice. That's what the political revolution we helped start is all about. That's why the political revolution must continue."
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
The Rise and Fall of America's Middle Class The devastation of the Great Depression created a grassroots rebellion of labor, farmers, and others against the careless moneyed class that caused the 1929 crash. These forces produced FDR and his New Deal of union rights, Social Security, and other tools that empowered ordinary Americans to begin rising up from poverty.
Thursday, January 11, 2018The Rise and Fall of America's Middle Class The devastation of the Great Depression created a grassroots rebellion of labor, farmers, and others against the careless moneyed class that caused the 1929 crash. These forces produced FDR and his New Deal of union rights, Social Security, and other tools that empowered ordinary Americans to begin rising up from poverty.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Where Are the Populist Democrats? Clinton and other top Democrats are weaker than Canadian hot sauce when it comes to embracing the real populism that voters want. Here's a possible explanation for that mystery: Only 13 percent of the super-rich think government should take action to redress inequality.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015Where Are the Populist Democrats? Clinton and other top Democrats are weaker than Canadian hot sauce when it comes to embracing the real populism that voters want. Here's a possible explanation for that mystery: Only 13 percent of the super-rich think government should take action to redress inequality.
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
The Next Subprime Loan Crisis Wasting America's much-needed investment capital on a scheme that intentionally puts people in cars they can't afford with loans they can't repay isn't only stupid, but immoral -- and it's killing our real economy. Why are we letting elite Wall Street loan sharks do this to us?
Wednesday, September 6, 2017The Next Subprime Loan Crisis Wasting America's much-needed investment capital on a scheme that intentionally puts people in cars they can't afford with loans they can't repay isn't only stupid, but immoral -- and it's killing our real economy. Why are we letting elite Wall Street loan sharks do this to us?
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
If You Inject a Stream of Raw Ignorance Into a Vat of Gaseous Arrogance, What Does It Produce? King Donald has the firepower of the federal government at his beck and call, so he is arrogantly using the government power to escalate his personal spat with Bezos. By executive order, he set up a federal task force to conduct a pernicious political inquisition into "our money losing post office," particularly looking at the "pricing of the package delivery market."
Saturday, June 9, 2018If You Inject a Stream of Raw Ignorance Into a Vat of Gaseous Arrogance, What Does It Produce? King Donald has the firepower of the federal government at his beck and call, so he is arrogantly using the government power to escalate his personal spat with Bezos. By executive order, he set up a federal task force to conduct a pernicious political inquisition into "our money losing post office," particularly looking at the "pricing of the package delivery market."
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017
John Deere Is Against the Right to Repair Its Equipment Deere's licensing scheme is an artificial, corporate-imposed, private "law" that will squeeze independent shops out of business and allow Deere to dominate the U.S. tractor-repair market, siphoning money and skilled jobs out of rural communities and ultimately leaving farmers at the mercy of a monopolist.
Wednesday, August 2, 2017John Deere Is Against the Right to Repair Its Equipment Deere's licensing scheme is an artificial, corporate-imposed, private "law" that will squeeze independent shops out of business and allow Deere to dominate the U.S. tractor-repair market, siphoning money and skilled jobs out of rural communities and ultimately leaving farmers at the mercy of a monopolist.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Big Three Myths Fabricated By Right-Wing Fabulists to Frame America's Elections If we are to stand up successfully to the myriad corporate policies and laws that they want to impose on us, we must confront, expose, and reject at every turn their nefarious lies. Don't let them rewrite the basic truth that unites us as a democratic people: We need each other for all of us to succeed, both personally and as a nation.
Thursday, October 4, 2012The Big Three Myths Fabricated By Right-Wing Fabulists to Frame America's Elections If we are to stand up successfully to the myriad corporate policies and laws that they want to impose on us, we must confront, expose, and reject at every turn their nefarious lies. Don't let them rewrite the basic truth that unites us as a democratic people: We need each other for all of us to succeed, both personally and as a nation.
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