National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 24,2010

BP is a corporate criminal

Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you’re a strutting peacock — the next day, you’re just another gasping, oil-covered bird.In early April, BP was strutting about in full corpor

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 17,2010

Airlines battle workplace democracy

By Jim Hightower

If you ever want to spook a smug, stuffed-shirt corporate CEO — I mean spook him so bad that he jumps clear out of his Guccis and screams louder than Little Richard — sneak up behind him a

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 10,2010

Government impotence and corporate rule

By Jim Hightower

Many news reports about the Gulf oil catastrophe refer to it as a “spill.” Wrong. A spill is a minor “oops” — one accidentally spills milk, for example, and from childhoo

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, June 3,2010

Disclosing the meekness of the ‘DISCLOSE’ bill

By Jim Hightower

At last, after weeks of analyzing, calculating, pondering, consulting and crafting, Democratic leaders in Washington have unveiled their much-awaited legislative response to the Supreme Court’s

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 27,2010

Who’ll win the 2010 “Icky” award?

By Jim Hightower

It’s not nearly as well known as an Emmy or Grammy, but the annual awarding of the “Icky” often produces high drama, fierce competition and gasps of surprise. This coveted corporate

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 20,2010

What a holy mess our oil addiction is causing

By Jim Hightower

Luckily, as our country tries to cope with another oozing oil disaster, we have political leaders with the insight, expertise and cool heads to analyze the problem precisely and guide us to rational l

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 13,2010

Wall Street profits, subsidies and lobbyists

By Jim Hightower

Wall Street bankers are strutting around like little banty roosters these days, crowing about the phenomenal profits their banks are raking in. Citigroup has just announced that its profits for

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, May 6,2010

Wall Street grins as Washington fiddles

By Jim Hightower

Performing a public service was undoubtedly the last thing on the minds of the geniuses who created Abacus 2007-ACI – but I, for one, am grateful to them. Abacus is an infamous investment packag

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 29,2010

Killing the competition

By Jim Hightower

Golly, whatever happened to America’s good ol’, bold-and-brassy, can-do competitive drive? To see a troubling sign for our nation’s famed, free-enterprise frontier spirit, sneak a pe

National - Jim Hightower | Thursday, April 22,2010

King Coal says, ‘Live free or die!’

By Jim Hightower

By gollies, one group in our country has what it takes! One group has done more than just strut around at teabag rallies, barking loudly about nullification, secession, militias and other big-talk thr