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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 | Wednesday, January 14,2009
Bringing fairness to the workplace
Unions. Who needs ’em? They’re so 1930s.
This is the frantic argument being pushed by corporate lobbyists who’re worried by the recent resurgence in union organizing, pol
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, January 7,2009
Bullet points for assessing the Bush years
As the classic New Year’s song asks, “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?”
Not if our auld acquaintance is the Bush regime. Yes, our country will soon be
getting a new
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 31,2008
Holiday gifts for a better America
In keeping with the biblical adage that it’s better to give than to receive, I came up with a delightful sleighful of
holiday goodies this year to dispense to some of our nation&rsqu
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 24,2008
Bush gives lump of coal to Appalachia
Let’s say that you’re CEO of a coal corporation, and you want to get at the deposits of black gold
deep inside the beautiful, verdant mountains of Appalachia. You have a choice.
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 17,2008
Congress coddles bankers while bashing union autoworkers
Sen. Bob Corker is ... well, a real corker.
The Tennessee Republican is on the Senate banking committee that’s overseeing the bailout of America’s Big Three automakers, and,
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, December 3,2008
Giving thanks to America’s good food movement
The thing that I was most thankful for on Turkey Day has not the abundance of
food at my family’s table, but the rebels who produced it.
No, not Butterball. And not Wal-Mart, General F
National - Jim Hightower | Tuesday, November 25,2008
Leaders duck and hide while Wall Street steals from us
They came. They saw. They ran away.
The recent big global finance summit session was a far cry from the “veni, vidi, vici” of Julius Caesar. Rather than conquering the spreading problem
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 19,2008
Spreading the wealth is a good thing
One of John McCain’s goofier political moves came in the last couple of weeks of the campaign when — with eyes darting, arms pumping frenetically and lips sneering — he assailed Bara
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 12,2008
The change must come from within us
Now is our time!
I don’t mean a time to gloat about Barack Obama’s sweeping electoral triumph, or a time to savor the demise of the Bush
ideologues, as sweet as that is. No, no —
National - Jim Hightower | Wednesday, November 5,2008
Hank Paulson’s bailout scandal
"You don't tell deliberate lies,"
explained Britain's right-wing political icon Margaret Thatcher,
"but sometimes you have to be evasive."
If only such honest dishonesty were practiced on
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