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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, August 3, 2019
What Trump Really Wants At The Border The most ridiculous thing about Donald Trump's xenophobic, demagogic assault on Central American amnesty seekers is that his frantic demand to build a $5-billion-dollar border wall isn't his most ridiculous ploy. Even more ridiculous is his panicky political assertion that the caravans coming north through Mexico are gangs of rapists, murderers, and terrorists out to slaughter and conquer us.
Saturday, August 3, 2019What Trump Really Wants At The Border The most ridiculous thing about Donald Trump's xenophobic, demagogic assault on Central American amnesty seekers is that his frantic demand to build a $5-billion-dollar border wall isn't his most ridiculous ploy. Even more ridiculous is his panicky political assertion that the caravans coming north through Mexico are gangs of rapists, murderers, and terrorists out to slaughter and conquer us.
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
The Other Mexican Migration There's another mass migration coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. These aren't Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home only to be separated, incarcerated, traumatized, and demonized by Trump for seeking humanitarian asylum in our country. Rather, these migrants are going the other way from the United States into Mexican border towns, where they're welcomed with open arms instead of armed guards.
Thursday, August 8, 2019The Other Mexican Migration There's another mass migration coming across the U.S.-Mexico border. These aren't Central American families fleeing horrific conditions back home only to be separated, incarcerated, traumatized, and demonized by Trump for seeking humanitarian asylum in our country. Rather, these migrants are going the other way from the United States into Mexican border towns, where they're welcomed with open arms instead of armed guards.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
How industry devoured American agriculture -- and corrupted our food system from the inside Thanksgiving -- let's eat! America's most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Native Americans enjoyed together in the fall of 1621.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018How industry devoured American agriculture -- and corrupted our food system from the inside Thanksgiving -- let's eat! America's most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Native Americans enjoyed together in the fall of 1621.
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
America's Rich Refugee Crisis A few thousand super rich Americans are trembling in their U.S. mansions, contemplating expatriation -- do they stay in the USA, or abandon the homeland for some friendlier haven for the super rich?
Thursday, January 30, 2020America's Rich Refugee Crisis A few thousand super rich Americans are trembling in their U.S. mansions, contemplating expatriation -- do they stay in the USA, or abandon the homeland for some friendlier haven for the super rich?
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Citizen Snowden: Why he matters the USA is nowhere near the soul-crushing, mind-controlling, authoritarian regime of Orwell's imagination. But what We The People need to confront is the fact that NSA's technologies of algorithmic, full-spectrum surveillance have been turned on us, creating a continuous watch that inevitably will be abusive and is inherently un-American.
Monday, March 17, 2014Citizen Snowden: Why he matters the USA is nowhere near the soul-crushing, mind-controlling, authoritarian regime of Orwell's imagination. But what We The People need to confront is the fact that NSA's technologies of algorithmic, full-spectrum surveillance have been turned on us, creating a continuous watch that inevitably will be abusive and is inherently un-American.
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Friday, July 14, 2017
1984 at the Grocery Store mall organic farmers and food artisans are destined to be squeezed out of Whole Foods, displaced by deep-pocket, global food makers who are willing to cut corners on quality and the environment in order to get on Amazon's new grocery shelves. Next on the chopping block is Whole Foods' helpful and friendly work force.
Friday, July 14, 20171984 at the Grocery Store mall organic farmers and food artisans are destined to be squeezed out of Whole Foods, displaced by deep-pocket, global food makers who are willing to cut corners on quality and the environment in order to get on Amazon's new grocery shelves. Next on the chopping block is Whole Foods' helpful and friendly work force.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Hightower: It's the Immigration Fearmongers We Should Be Worried About, Not Their Ebola Hype The surge of young migrants was coming to an end ... and so was Perry's dumb rationale for slamming and locking our nation's southwest door. No problem for Rick, though -- he simply reached for dumber. Instead of children, his latest bugaboo is -- believe it or not -- Islamic terrorists.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014Hightower: It's the Immigration Fearmongers We Should Be Worried About, Not Their Ebola Hype The surge of young migrants was coming to an end ... and so was Perry's dumb rationale for slamming and locking our nation's southwest door. No problem for Rick, though -- he simply reached for dumber. Instead of children, his latest bugaboo is -- believe it or not -- Islamic terrorists.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
It's time for a (teeny) tax on wealth The proposal for a bold, unabashedly progressive wealth tax is a rallying cry for grassroots rebels to join forces and work together to reassert America's historic democratic promise.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019It's time for a (teeny) tax on wealth The proposal for a bold, unabashedly progressive wealth tax is a rallying cry for grassroots rebels to join forces and work together to reassert America's historic democratic promise.
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Sunday, January 28, 2018
Fed Up With Democrats, Progressives Forge Own Path The most common characteristic of last year's progressive, populist candidates is that they were genuinely of the people, not career pols who were next in line. And they were not simply running for office, but running for specific economic, social and political changes to make America better for families and neighborhoods like theirs.
Sunday, January 28, 2018Fed Up With Democrats, Progressives Forge Own Path The most common characteristic of last year's progressive, populist candidates is that they were genuinely of the people, not career pols who were next in line. And they were not simply running for office, but running for specific economic, social and political changes to make America better for families and neighborhoods like theirs.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Banks Don't Commit Crimes, Bankers Do these negotiated settlements between the feds and the big banks will effectively deter repeats of the 2008 Wall Street debacle, right? Actually, no. Notice that the $5 billion punishment is applied to Goldman Sachs, not to the "Goldman Sackers." The bank's shareholders have to cough up the penalty, rather than the executives who did the bad deeds.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016Banks Don't Commit Crimes, Bankers Do these negotiated settlements between the feds and the big banks will effectively deter repeats of the 2008 Wall Street debacle, right? Actually, no. Notice that the $5 billion punishment is applied to Goldman Sachs, not to the "Goldman Sackers." The bank's shareholders have to cough up the penalty, rather than the executives who did the bad deeds.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
What the Frack!?! Natural gas is being touted by the industry and its tail-wagging politicos as clean and cheap -- the "magic bullet" for our energy problems. Before we swallow such hype, however, let's just note that the process is named "fracturing" for a reason -- it's inherently destructive, dirty -- and way more costly than the market price of the fuel admits.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012What the Frack!?! Natural gas is being touted by the industry and its tail-wagging politicos as clean and cheap -- the "magic bullet" for our energy problems. Before we swallow such hype, however, let's just note that the process is named "fracturing" for a reason -- it's inherently destructive, dirty -- and way more costly than the market price of the fuel admits.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
America's Farmworkers Face Poverty, Neglect, and Now Deportation While they backed Trump for president, many are now expressing shock that he may actually try to fulfill his campaign promise to cut off the flow of undocumented immigrants to their fields. They now admit that these immigrants make up as much as 70 percent of the industry's workforce, so they've rushed to Washington, demanding a special exemption from their president's planned lockout of Mexican laborers
Wednesday, December 27, 2017America's Farmworkers Face Poverty, Neglect, and Now Deportation While they backed Trump for president, many are now expressing shock that he may actually try to fulfill his campaign promise to cut off the flow of undocumented immigrants to their fields. They now admit that these immigrants make up as much as 70 percent of the industry's workforce, so they've rushed to Washington, demanding a special exemption from their president's planned lockout of Mexican laborers
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces What we have here is the absurdly dangerous militarization of America's police departments. Our sprawling Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon (which gave the MRAP to Bastrop) are haphazardly spreading war equipment, war techniques and a war mentality to what are supposed to be our communities' peacekeepers and crime solvers.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014The Dangerous Militarization of Our Local Police Forces What we have here is the absurdly dangerous militarization of America's police departments. Our sprawling Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon (which gave the MRAP to Bastrop) are haphazardly spreading war equipment, war techniques and a war mentality to what are supposed to be our communities' peacekeepers and crime solvers.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
We're Told the Dow Jones Average... The media, politicians and corporations use to tell us whether our economy is zooming or sputtering is Wall Street's index of stock prices. The media literally spews out some number every hour indicating that the Dow Jones Average of stock prices is up, down or sluggish -- as though everyone is waiting breathlessly for that news.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018We're Told the Dow Jones Average... The media, politicians and corporations use to tell us whether our economy is zooming or sputtering is Wall Street's index of stock prices. The media literally spews out some number every hour indicating that the Dow Jones Average of stock prices is up, down or sluggish -- as though everyone is waiting breathlessly for that news.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
Mega Merger, Mega Mess This old model of self-enrichment through corporate takeover, consolidation, and contraction, turns out to be not just bad morals, but bad business. It's time for us, the media, and public officials to start saying no to merger mania.
Thursday, October 17, 2019Mega Merger, Mega Mess This old model of self-enrichment through corporate takeover, consolidation, and contraction, turns out to be not just bad morals, but bad business. It's time for us, the media, and public officials to start saying no to merger mania.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Health Care Under Fire The Supreme clan is firing potshots at the Affordable Care Act. Caught in the crossfire is the court's own integrity, along with the health of millions of innocent bystanders. In an attempt to override the law, these so-called "justices" have jumped on a wagonload of legalistic bovine excrement called King v. Burwell.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015Health Care Under Fire The Supreme clan is firing potshots at the Affordable Care Act. Caught in the crossfire is the court's own integrity, along with the health of millions of innocent bystanders. In an attempt to override the law, these so-called "justices" have jumped on a wagonload of legalistic bovine excrement called King v. Burwell.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
It's time to name the tea party politicians (and their sponsors)--and call them out America has BIG needs right now -- a jobs crisis, housing crisis, infrastructure crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis, middle-class crisis, democracy crisis. But they can't even be addressed because tea party ravers in the House, joined there by a gaggle of old school right-wingers, keep throwing hissy fits over far-out ideological gimcrackery.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011It's time to name the tea party politicians (and their sponsors)--and call them out America has BIG needs right now -- a jobs crisis, housing crisis, infrastructure crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis, middle-class crisis, democracy crisis. But they can't even be addressed because tea party ravers in the House, joined there by a gaggle of old school right-wingers, keep throwing hissy fits over far-out ideological gimcrackery.
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Friday, September 15, 2017
How to get a health care system for people, not just for corporate profit Believe it or not, we can get Congress to enact a new program providing good quality, lower-cost health care for your family and (what the hell, let's think big here) for every man, woman and (especially) every child in our society.
Friday, September 15, 2017How to get a health care system for people, not just for corporate profit Believe it or not, we can get Congress to enact a new program providing good quality, lower-cost health care for your family and (what the hell, let's think big here) for every man, woman and (especially) every child in our society.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wall Street's Fix for Homelessness Having seen his 16-year-old son volunteer at a homeless center, Andy Kessler, this champion of the rich was motivated to develop a plan to solve homelessness. Here it is: Stop dishing out soup to those people and shut down all the shelters.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013Wall Street's Fix for Homelessness Having seen his 16-year-old son volunteer at a homeless center, Andy Kessler, this champion of the rich was motivated to develop a plan to solve homelessness. Here it is: Stop dishing out soup to those people and shut down all the shelters.
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
5 Signs that America Has Gone Bonkers -- and a Glimmer of Hope Ordinary folks are awakening to the realization that the fools have seized power, and the folks are now making moves (and movements) to seize the fools by their short hairs and reclaim our dreams. The USA hasn't gone crazy -- its leaders have, and they can be changed.
Sunday, June 1, 20145 Signs that America Has Gone Bonkers -- and a Glimmer of Hope Ordinary folks are awakening to the realization that the fools have seized power, and the folks are now making moves (and movements) to seize the fools by their short hairs and reclaim our dreams. The USA hasn't gone crazy -- its leaders have, and they can be changed.
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