Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE The mantra of every Koch-headed, right-wing politico is that government should be run like a business, always focused on cutting costs. Welcome to Flint, Mich. This impoverished, mostly African-American city has indeed been run like a private corporation since Republican Gov. Rick Snyder appointed his “emergency manager” to […]
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Take the movement to the White House
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE At a recent dinner with my work team, I was reminded that I had said I wanted to travel less for work this year so I could focus on other projects. Instead, I find myself bouncing across the country campaigning for my friend who decided to run for […]
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Something is happening
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE When I crossed paths with a Democratic Party campaign consultant in Austin last March, I suggested he come out to the local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall to hear Bernie Sanders, adding that the Vermont senator was pondering a run for the presidency. “You gotta be kiddin’ […]
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Why the GOP’s fence fantasy is a farce
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE A long time ago, in a not so faraway land, a civilization existed that was governed through a fairly rational political system. Even conservative candidates for high office had to have a good idea or two – and be quasi-qualified. That land was the USA. It still exists […]
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Should corporations pay their taxes?
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Carl Icahn, noted corporate predator and takeover specialist who made billions of dollars in corporate deals, has recently begun pushing a charitable cause involving a group of people who, through no fault of their own, are being forced out of America. Syrian migrants who’ve lost everything, you ask? […]
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Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Aah, ‘tis the season for family, friends, eggnog, chipmunks singing Christmas carols – and all-out, no-mercy, blow-’em-all-to-hell war. Not war like in Afghanistan. No, no – this is the far right’s God-awful “War on Christmas.” In this season of Peace on Earth, a delusional faction of rightists has […]
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Exxon’s weapons of mass confusion
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE InsideClimate News revealed in an investigative series released this fall that the oil superpower Exxon was briefly a paragon of scientific integrity. From 1978 through the ‘80s the corporation’s research headquarters were a buzzing hive of farsighted inquiry into the “greenhouse effect,” as the process of climate change […]
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Don Blankenship guilty
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Don Blankenship didn’t get what he deserves in his federal trial, but he definitely deserves what he got. “Guilty,” declared all 12 West Virginia jurors who pondered the charge that this arrogant and avaricious CEO of Massey Energy Company willfully conspired to violate America’s mine safety laws. As […]
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Building monopolies, merger by merger
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Corporate world is experiencing a surge in the urge to merge. Control of market after market – from cable TV to chickens, banking to washing machines – has been seized by less than a handful of enormous corporations. Rather than compete, they collude to set prices, cut quality, […]
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Let’s get on board with high-speed rail
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Practically every wealthy nation today is making major investments in building high-speed rail networks to transport their people: Japan, Canada, France, Russia, India, England, Morocco, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, China, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, Turkey and more. But not us, the wealthiest nation, with dozens […]
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Let’s break away from Black Friday syndrome
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Here comes the holiday season. It’s a monthlong season of friends, family and spiritual reflection, and a time to decompress from our usual helter-skelter lives. It kicks off with Thanksgiving: the one holiday on our calendar that’s meant to be a calm, family-oriented time to get away from […]
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What’s the price on Jeb Bush’s integrity?
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE If you are a presidential aspirant and you have to tell people that you are a person of integrity – there’s a very good chance that you are not. And those odds at least quadruple if you have to hire a talking head to attest to your honor; […]
