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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster” America’s leaders are small, but Americans are notFree food can be yours for the pickingThe "anti-Starbucks" StarbucksWall Street’s new Halloween trickGoofing up health care reformObama must get going on jobs Bank profits, banker pay and other banker tricks“Local” goes locoA “smart choice” that isn’t
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 7,2011
Japan’s earthquake jolts America
The corporate chieftains who’ve relentlessly pushed American factories and our middle-class jobs offshore rationalize their globalization of production by declaring that it’s all about eff
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 31,2011
Rich get richer with new Congress
Change is not the same thing as progress. In fact, change can be the exact opposite. It can be regressive, as we’re now learning from – where else? – Congress. A flock of tea party-i
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 24,2011
America’s true crisis
The greatest problem our nation faces can be summed up in one word: leadership. OK, make that three words: lack of leadership. America’s corporate, political, media, academic and other leaders a
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 17,2011
The corporate/GOP attack on America’s middle class
The most revealing comments by politicians are rarely revealed. This is because they’re made in unrecorded conversations, when politicos let their guard down. However, in a recent sting, blogger
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 10,2011
The Kochs and the guv stir up a hornets’ nest
Thank you, Scott Walker! And you, too, Charles and David Koch! Thanks for being so ham-handed in pushing your self-serving, virulently anti-union agenda on the schoolteachers, health care worker
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, March 3,2011
Crybabies commit corporate lawsuit abuse
Not all of the bullies are in schoolyards these days – quite a few have graduated to the executive suites of corporate America. Take Charles and David Koch, two multibillionaire brothers whose l
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 24,2011
Ethics, health care, guns and Congress critters
This new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old ethics-be-damned House run just a few years ago by the convicted money-launderer, Tom DeLay – only more so. Back wh
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 17,2011
Obama walks in the wrong direction
As part of his odd and demeaning determination to hug up America’s avaricious corporate powers, President Obama walked across Lafayette Square on Feb. 7 to enter the imperial gates of the U.S. C
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 10,2011
The Kochs are coming!
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – The multibillionaire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors, keeping their identities and self-servi
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, February 3,2011
Obama, Inc.
Exciting news, folks. Obama and team say they’re recalibrating, recasting, retooling and rebranding his presidency! And they’ve come up with a dandy new slogan to sum it all up and get Ame
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