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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 17,2009
The reality of economic recovery
Great news, America! Having just celebrated Labor Day, we can now bask in the revelation that our long economic nightmare is over. Forget recession, much less a depression, our country is poised to sp
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 10,2009
Holding Wall Street bankers accountable
Don’t you wish that someone in authority, someone with an ounce of chutzpah, someone with his or her head screwed on right, would direct a few obvious, pointed, even rude questions to the Wall S
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, September 3,2009
Fake rallies on the rise
Grass roots has been taken over by astroturf
Protests are back! All across America, angry demonstrations are popping up like mushrooms on moldy astroturf. Similar to the plastic “grass,” political astroturf is the corporate version o
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 27,2009
Taking us for a ride on health care
If you get a thrill from taking a white-knuckle ride on a loop-the-loop, you don’t have to wait for next year’s state fair — just hop onto the right-wing express, which is plunging i
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 20,2009
The "anti-Starbucks" Starbucks
There’s a joke going around that Starbucks has so saturated the coffee market that it is now opening new Starbucks stores inside its old stores. Well, not quite — not yet — but the c
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 13,2009
Non-organic organic food
When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, o
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, August 6,2009
Look out! The circus has come to town
Who doesn’t love a parade? And here comes a big one! You can feel the beat of the drums,
hear the trumpeting of elephants and the melodious call of the calliope — all of which
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 30,2009
Real competition can stop health insurance gouging
Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama is all for the congressional effort to produce
health care reform — as long as the legislation we end up with doesn’t contain any actual reform.
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 23,2009
Free food can be yours for the picking
Years ago, a young, sorta-hippyish couple who lived nearby knocked on my front
door. They had noticed that fig trees in my side yard were laden with ripening
fruit. “If you’re
National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, July 16,2009
Big bankers mounting sneak attack on consumers
Have you received your thank-you note? I’m still waiting for mine.
More than a year into the Wall Street bailout, I’ve yet to get any sort of “thank you” fro
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