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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim 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. [Read more]
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Driving America's yellow school bus to educational hell
Public education used to be, you know, public – as in: An essential societal investment for the betterment of all, paid for by all through school taxes.
In addition to... [read more]
Turning human misery into corporate profits
Good news, people: The "boom" is back! Good times are here again, thanks to an economic boom generated by (of all things) bad times.
Tens of millions of Americans have been... [read more]
DADDY'S PHILOSOPHY
This special day got me to thinking about America's spirit of giving, and I don't mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving -- giving of ourselves.
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"We the People," not We the Corporations
In response to the Supreme Court's freakish decision in 2010 to bestow political "personhood" on corporations, I got an email from a guy named Larry, screaming that "Big money has plucked our eagle."
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The fountain-pen economy
Even the word "greed" is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today's corporate elite.
From offshoring jobs to busting unions, from slashing wages to looting pensions,... [read more]
Where's the ethical balance of America's scales of justice?
Is it really "fair and balanced"? I don't mean the ridiculous Fox TV channel, whose right-wing ranters mock their own PR slogan – but, rather, a network that actually matters in our society: America's legal... [read more]