How Can a Drug Company CEO Feel So Good About Being Vile?
Some drug company CEO’s dwell on bottom level of grotesque immorality. Corporate price gouging is never nice. But gouging people on the price of medicines they rely on … 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.
Why Can’t Our Economy Promote Equality and Shared Prosperity?
Equality and shared prosperity can be ours, but only if we insist. Instead of griping about the greedheads of Wall Street and the rip-off financial system they’ve hung … Read more
Fake Populist: Donnie’s Little Lies are Huuuuuge
Trump tries to sound like a populist, but his policies are just more trickle-down hokum. An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: “Lies, damn … Read more
Rampaging Debt Collectors are Committing Highway Robbery
Some debt collectors are rampaging across the country, ruthlessly abusing consumer rights, and must be stopped. Some corporations engage in such abusive consumer rip-offs that they’re just plain … Read more
The Populist Insurgency is Ratcheting Up
A progressive, populist uprising has achieved much in the past 15 months. What an amazing Democratic primary season it was! And we now have this happy result: WE … Read more
Campaigns End on Election Day. Revolutions Don’t.
The political revolution will continue after Election Day – if you stay involved. The fervent prayer of old-line Democratic operatives and corporate funders is that the Sanders Storm … Read more
What’s Next for the Bernie Sanders Revolution?
The ‘political revolution’ Sanders spoke of is actually happening – join in with the serious, but fun, work! As we approach the upcoming Democratic convention, let’s look back … Read more
How to Make a Political Platform Progressive
Fresh from working on the Democratic national platform committee, Jim Hightower reports. An old cowboy aphorism offers this advice: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse.” I … Read more
Wall Street Demands More Blood from the Stone
It’s getting hot in Indianapolis: Wall Street greed forces yet another plant shutdown. If the chieftains of industry and their political henchmen want to know what’s roiling the … Read more
The Brexit Vote Should Not Have Been So Shocking to Global Elites
Why Brexit? Could it be because the European Union has become a messy, bureaucratic, multinational government of, by and for corporate interests? The most shocking thing about “Brexit” … Read more
