Speaking Truth About Power
By Jim Hightower A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those … Read more
By Jim Hightower A willingness to speak truth to power is an essential civic virtue for the well-being of a democratic-republic. Equally virtuous and essential, however, are those … Read more
Where’s Woody when we need him? By Jim Hightower In these times of tinkle-down economics — with the money powers thinking that they’re the top dogs and that … Read more
The Keystone pipeline would result in environmental damage, would be foreign-owned and the oil would end up in foreign markets By Jim Hightower For Rep. Allen West, the … Read more
There’s a better way of organizing America’s economic strength: The Cooperative Way We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our … Read more
There’s rich, and then there’s really, really, really rich By Jim Hightower The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also … Read more
Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the … Read more
Wow, January’s gone already — time really flies when you’re having Republican presidential primaries! And what better time than Groundhog Day to poke into that warren of feral … Read more
Parks are a tangible expression of America’s democratic ideals “Sorry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across … Read more
What planet does presidential wannabe Rick Santorum live on? When it comes to grasping the situation of America’s hard-hit workaday majority, this sweater-vested ultra-right-winger is further out than … Read more
Oh, to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom! If you need a symbol of how America’s decade-long war is going in this faraway land, … Read more