BY JIM HIGHTOWER Anti-feminist politicos and talk show yakkers try to ridicule the reality that women in our rich and advanced society might endure any “oppression.” America isn’t Afghanistan, they snort. Women here get to vote. Girls play all kinds of sports and can grow up to be astronauts or CEOs or anything. Why, we…
BY JIM HIGHTOWER D.T. [as aides refer to the present occupant of the Oval Office] is really quite good at one special skill: branding. He has slapped his name on a ridiculous range of consumer merch – teddy bears, steaks, made-in-China ties, vodka, underwear and even a urine test. His nasty policies and behavior steadily…
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Thanksgiving – let’s eat! America’s most food-focused holiday traces its roots back to the abundant feast that Pilgrims and Native Americans enjoyed together in the fall of 1621. Not even half of the 100 or so Mayflower Pilgrims and crew who’d arrived at Plymouth Rock the previous December survived their first, grim…
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Unable to find a fatal flaw in our far-flung public mail delivery network, the anti-Postal Service forces manufactured a fake flaw. In 2006, then-president George W. Bush, congressional Republican leaders, the powerful “privatizer lobby” [including FedEx, UPS and Wall Street speculators] and Koch-funded think tanks and Astroturf front groups colluded to put…
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Donald Trump hates you. But don’t take it personally, he hates me, too – and all of us who constitute The Public. The billionaire’s antipathy is not directed at us as individuals, but as users of publicly provided services – such as schools, parks, health care, buses, collective bargaining, libraries and environmental…
