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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, September 16,2010
Billionaire brothers are remaking America for their own benefit
There’s a difference between being paranoid and being suspicious. Paranoia is mental disturbance; suspicion is a rational deduction.
For example, if you suspect that America’s e
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 9,2010
A renewed commitment to the common good
America’s corporate chieftains must love poor people, for they’re doing all they can to create millions more of them. They’re knocking down wages, offshoring everything from manufact
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 2,2010
Wall Street’s connected lobbyists
Congress finally passed a moderate reform package to tighten regulations on the banksters of Wall Street. Of course, the banksters howled, protesting even the meekest of reforms – but the packag
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 26,2010
Corporate America speaking out
Congressional Republicans have spent the first two years of the Obama administration as the rock-solid party of “no,” “uh-uh,” “no way,” “forget about it,&rdq
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 19,2010
New outrages keep gushing from BP
With BP’s well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now comes this: prison labor.ċIn
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 12,2010
Fighting back against the banksters
Oh, them wild and naughty bankers! What in the world will those rapacious rapscallions of Wall Street do next? Just recently, we learned from Kenneth Feinberg, the government’s special investiga
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 5,2010
Truth and irony in agriculture fiascos
The Shirley Sherrod Story started innocently. It was a beautiful anecdote of redemption and personal growth, which she related last year at a meeting of the Georgia NAACP. The story told by this
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 29,2010
Grinning bankers
Like ugly on a toad, banker greed just can’t be rinsed off, no matter how much regulatory soap you use. Last week, Congress enacted new rules to govern America’s huge banks, thus com
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 22,2010
Jobless ‘recovery’ requires rebuilding America
The good news is that America’s economy continues to grow. The bad news is that most people’s personal economies continue to shrivel. The June report on jobs glows with the happy news that
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 15,2010
Reassembling America’s democracy
On the Fourth of July, we celebrated Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Madison and all the other great men who created our democracy, right? Not exactly. The founders did create the framework for a democrat
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