AlterNet.org: Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower: After Bankruptcy Hostess Vows to Keep Making Twinkies, But Sacrifices Workers

Jim Hightower, Other Words — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:01 PST

Hostess will make employees less secure by busting their pensions, cutting their medical benefits and abrogating their labor contracts.

Jim Hightower: How Team Obama, the GOP, and Tea Partiers Are All Intruding on Your Rights

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:00:01 PST

In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them.

Jim Hightower: Will Americans Ever Stop Throwing Their Money at Corporate Crap and Give Gifts That Truly Matter?

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:00:01 PST

Americans are buying from local artisans, fair-trade merchants, certified sweatshop-free manufacturers and others in the burgeoning non-corporate economy.

Jim Hightower: If You Are Not Outraged, You Are Not Paying Attention: 5 Major Ways Corporate Elites Are Degrading America

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:01 PST

While it can be disheartening to see the smallness of those in power, don't let it get you down, for they want us to become so disheartened that we give up.

Jim Hightower: This Veterans Day, Don't Just Salute Veterans -- Rally With Them

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:00:01 PST

Vets are rallying with the Occupy movement, expressing their anger at being used in two senseless wars that enriched corporate contractors.

Jim Hightower: After Years of 'Research' and Millions of Dollars, Is Wendy's New Burger Really Any Better?

Jim Hightower, Other Words — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:00:01 PDT

The "improved" Wendy's burger has a fattier beef patty, a buttered bun, and whole-fat mayonnaise â€” weighing in at 33 grams of fat and 580 calories per burger.

Jim Hightower: How Rick Perry Has Been on the Public Dole His Whole Life

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:00:01 PDT

When this taxpayer-supported lifer flits into your town to declare that he will slash public benefits, he means in your life, not his.

Jim Hightower: By Not Creating Jobs, Obama Is Not Doing His Own Job. So Do We Have A President or Not?

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:00:01 PDT

Instead of making jobs Priority No.1, Obama put Wall Street banksters first, dumping trillions of dollars from public funds into saving those who crashed our economy.

Jim Hightower: How a Corporatist Supreme Court Cabal Joined Forces With Right Wing and Kochs to Quietly Sell Out Our Democracy

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:00:01 PDT

Corrupt, right-wing Supreme Court justices are abusing their power, fraternizing with the Koch brothers and fixing elections (among other horrors).

Jim Hightower: Big Coal Buys Access to 4th Graders to Promote Dirty Energy to Kids

Jim Hightower, Other Words — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:00:01 PDT

Big Coal paid big bucks to Scholastic Inc. to develop a shamelessly distorted promotion of the dirtiest fuel on Earth.

Jim Hightower: Inept Texas Governor Rick Perry Calls Himself A "Miracle Man"

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:00:01 PDT

Perry poses as a minister and digs Texas into one of the deepest budget holes in the country, all the while receiving praise from the GOP.

Jim Hightower: Blame the '60s? The Catholic Church's Latest Shameless Ploy

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:01 PDT

Pedophilia isn't a social habit that one adopts. It's a sickness. Deal with it. Honestly.

Jim Hightower: DeVos, Koch, Scaife, Walton, ALEC, AFC: The Corporate Royalists and Right-Wing Groups Propelling the GOP's Assault on the Middle Class

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:00:01 PDT

A handful of rich, right-wing families and corporate chieftains are dedicated to returning America to the days when robber barons ruled.

Jim Hightower: What Are the Big Oil Companies Thinking When They Fight Having to Pay Taxes?

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:00:01 PDT

Last week, the heads of 5 multibillion-dollar oil behemoths strode into a U.S. Senate hearing room and took wild swings at the Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes bill, which then failed.

Jim Hightower: 6 State Battlegrounds in the Right-Wing War Against Teachers, Firefighters, Caregivers and the Entire Middle Class

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:00:01 PDT

Our nation has devolved into a new and nasty civil war, with moneyed elites now charging into legislatures and courts to establish themselves as a de facto plutocracy.

Jim Hightower: GOP Chooses Big Oil at the Expense of Granny

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:00:01 PDT

Exxon's taxes were actually less than zero! Big Oil's lobbyists have so skewed the system that Exxon was able to extract a $156 million rebate from us taxpayers last year.

Jim Hightower: Meal Worms in Chocolate and Bug Nuggets -- Are You Ready For the Future of Food?

Jim Hightower, Other Words — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:00:01 PDT

Despite the "yuck" factor, many bugs pack a protein punch that's healthier than steak and far lighter on the environment.

Jim Hightower: How Tea Partiers in Congress Are Doing Their Corporate Masters' Bidding

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:00:01 PDT

People were robbed of hundreds of billions of dollars -- and millions of jobs, homes and businesses -- yet the banksters not only skated free, they're now collecting billions.

Jim Hightower: Congress Making Themselves and Friends Richer, While Everyone Else Struggles to Make Ends Meet

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:00:01 PDT

The great majority of Americans make about $30K a year. Incoming lawmakers, however? Extensive personal investments in Wall St. banks, oil giants and drug makers.

Jim Hightower: Top 4 Victories Handed to Corporate America by the Supreme Court -- So Far

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:01 PST

"Judicial activism" is way too tame a phrase for what Chief Justice Roberts & Co did here. This was a coup -- a plotted overthrow to enthrone corporate political interests.

Jim Hightower: Hightower: Join the Resistance Against the Right-Wing Multi-Billionaire Koch Brothers

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:00:01 PST

The Kochs are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors. But they've been exposed.

Jim Hightower: Obama Team's Lame Marketing Line: 'Win the Future' -- Who's Buying That?

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:00:01 PST

He's rebranding his presidency, all right. It's becoming Obama Inc.

Jim Hightower: Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:01 PST

While tea party regulars are giddy with the thought that their movement took over the U. S. House, they were actually a Trojan horse for powerful corporate interests.

Jim Hightower: Hightower: How Wall Street Elites Are Dynamiting Our Democracy

Jim Hightower, AlterNet — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:01 PST

Our society can tolerate such raw selfishness by the privileged few, or it can have democracy. It can't have both.

Jim Hightower: Vision: 8 Ways We're Making America a Better Place -- in Spite of the Disasters Coming out of Washington

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:01 PST

We can have the kind of economy, government, environment, and country we want, if we keep pushing, organizing, building, and otherwise doing the work of democracy.