Calling Joe Biden
Calling Joe Biden: Breaking the stranglehold that monopolies have on our economy is not a job for the politically meek. For years, as ever-bigger corporate combines grabbed ever-bigger … Read more
Jim Hightower’s Column
Political commentary column by Jim Hightower. Often serious, but Jim uses his trademark biting satire to make important points.
Democrats, Please Be Democrats!
This is prime time for the party to actually be Democrats, to unite ordinary Americans behind a national agenda of lasting progressive change. I think we can now … Read more
Supreme Thieves Disguised in Robes of ‘Justice’
The Court’s six right-wing “Supreme Thieves” have turned what’s meant to be a citadel of democracy into a Republican rubber stamp for plutocracy. Barry Goldwater, considered a right-wing … Read more
Trucker Shortage: Drivers Are Hijacked by Immoral Corporate Bosses
The trucker shortage isn’t due to COVID restrictions, it’s because they are underpaid, overworked and dehumanized. The recent traffic-clogging protests in Canada, Washington, D.C., Europe and elsewhere by … Read more
Who’s in Control of Health Care?
The system will not improve unless there is democratic control of health care, which means something akin to Canada’s single-payer system. The central issue in health care can … Read more
A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral
Rube Goldberg himself couldn’t have dreamed up a more fantastical diagram for obscuring a straightforward economic power grab. It seems like the price of everything from used cars … Read more
Change That Matters
Profiteering industries have been trying to demonize the Rights of Nature movement and change that matters. As you would expect, corporate leaders have responded to the idea of … Read more
Rights of Nature: An Indigenous Idea
The Rights of Nature concept is an organic outgrowth of the reality that Earth and its many creatures and elements are inextricably connected. If an inanimate, self-serving, monopolistic … Read more
Corporations Win Olympic Gold in ‘Downhill Ethical Backflip’
The collective ethical backflip has been quite impressive: from the high ethical bar of human rights into the pits of crass, unprincipled commercialism. By far the top team … Read more
The ‘Tree That Owns Itself’ Should Have a Right to Exist
Why not grant self-protective rights of law to our invaluable natural systems? The “Tree That Owns Itself” should have a right to exist. As an old axiom notes, … Read more
