Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
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...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
A long time ago, in a not-so-faraway land, a civilization existed that was governed through a fairly rational political system. Even conservative...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Carl Icahn, noted corporate predator and takeover specialist who made billions of dollars in corporate deals, has recently begun pushing a charitable...
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
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....
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Don Blankenship didn't get what he deserves in his federal trial, but he definitely deserves what he got.
"Guilty," declared all 12 West...
