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Author, agitator and activist Jim Hightower spreads the good word of true populism, under the simple notion that "everybody does better, when everybody does better." jimhightower.substack.com
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How to Arm Nature Against Corporate Profiteers
There’s a hunter’s nightmare in which a group of them flush some rabbits out of the brush. But rather than scampering away, the furry bunnies turn toward their stalkers. “Run,” shouts one of the hunters. “Run for your life – the rabbits have guns!” Arming animals would make the…
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Buying Farm Votes with Your Tax Dollars
E-I-E-I-O! If Republican agriculture policy was a crop, farmers would plow it under. Why? Because it’s worthless. Worse than worthless, GOP policy: 1) bilks taxpayers to pay billions of dollars a year to bail out the biggest corporate farms; 2) it forces productive family…
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Beware: Billionaire Technocrats Say They Want to “Save” Humanity
We’re being told that an earth-shaking, transformative age of “generative artificial intelligence” is already upon us. We’re told not to worry though, just accept it, because an elite clique of über-smart, über-rich tech barons have our backs. These Big Thinking Visionaries,…
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GOP Gets Backasswards On Meaning of “Consumer Protection”
You probably won’t believe this, boys and girls, but there was a time when government regulatory officials believed it was their public duty to – get this – serve the public ! How? By enforcing laws intended to protect consumers, workers, the environment and other targets of raw…
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Do You Suspect the System Is Rigged? Here’s Proof
Years ago, a Texas lawmaker got caught using his official position to enrich himself by taking money from special interests, in exchange for voting their way. The culprit did not deem this as corrupt, but just the normal ethic of an enterprising business transaction: “I seen my…
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The Academy Award for Self-Serving Corporate Propaganda
When corporations try to bamboozle us commoners, they fire three levels of deceit at us. First comes their basic lies… then they escalate to a barrage of damn lies… and finally they resort to their nuclear option: A PR campaign. The high-tech profiteers of artificial…
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Two-Legged Hogs Trying to Rule Ag Policy
Warning: This is a sob story that might bring you to tears. Or make you upchuck in disgust. It’s about hogs – both the four-legged species and the more piggish, two-legged breed of agribusiness executives. The latter have long profited from cruel abuse of millions of hogs caged…
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You Betcha the GOP “Loves” Small Business. Loves It to Death.
I’ve got to hand it to Washington’s Republican policy makers. They’ve come up with a truly remarkable way that, they promise, will vastly expand the number of small businesses in America. Great! This is personal for me, for I grew up in a family that had a Main Street business…
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Why Can’t Ill Seniors Get Even a Scrap of Dignity from Congress?
What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean. I don’t like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs stand out as morally abominable, such as this one. It’s about hundreds of thousands of our low-income elders who, toward the end of life (when frail…
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Montana Proposes a Way to Stop “Dark Money” Corruption of Our Democracy
It’s the fall harvest season, when many farm stands and homes decorate with pumpkins, corn stalks, and maybe even a straw man. How to make a straw man? Easy – stuff a couple of burlap bags with hay and dress your “man” in an old flannel shirt, overalls, and straw hat. But…
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Friday Signpost: Hightower & Tavis Smiley on the Fight for Fundamental Fairness
Last week, Hightower had the absolute pleasure of appearing on Tavis Smiley ’s live radio talk show—a lot of great laughs, and a lot of good ground covered! From the Texas races, to America at 250, to the idea that fundamental fairness is a sense all humans share, Tavis and…
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The People Are Fighting Data Centers, But the Government Is Fighting the People
To cope with the eminent danger posed by today’s arrogant, profiteering AI billionaires – Donald Trump says that the only thing America needs is a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT!” Well, yes – let’s try to find one of those! The president we have now is quite the…
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GOP Leaders Want to Take America Back… to McCarthyism
It’s one thing for someone like me say that the Republican Party has dived into the abyss of political delirium. But it’s another thing when the Party itself confirms its collective delirium for two whole days in a made-for-TV political talk-a-thon. Their theme was: “Bring Back…
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Friday Signpost: Farmers and Ranchers Fight On
This past week, our friends at Farm Aid celebrated the 40th anniversary of the United Farmer and Rancher Congress, held in St. Louis. The country was in the middle of one of the worst farm crises we’d ever seen, and solutions from America’s leaders were not plentiful, nor…
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Corporate Data Centers + NDAs = Secret Government
A West Texas cowboy saying advises: “Never sign nothing by neon.” But that’s exactly the key operational method of the AI data center hucksters who’re foisting their exploitative, multibillion-dollar scams on local folks all across America. Corporate slicks for outfits like…
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Greg’s Folly: Governor Abbott Gets Hoisted on His Own Petard
Greg Abbott, the right-wing hack who is governor of Texas, probably doesn’t know what a “petard” is, but he’s now been hoisted by a big one. “Hoist on a petard” is a Shakespearean phrase referring to a bomb maker being blown sky high by his own creation. Abbott’s bombastic saga…
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The President Goes Bull-Goose Crazy In Support of AI
At a time when communities across America are literally under siege by secretive data center powers intent on seizing our land, water, electric grid, and even our local democracy – that’s when you’re grateful to have a president who’ll stand with you, fighting for the people’s…
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Billionaires Say America’s Founding Value of Egalitarianism Is Not For Them
Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: “Nobody is better than you,” they said, “and you’re no better than anybody else.” That’s the ethical underpinning for “We’re all in this together” – it’s what…
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Billionaires Playing Cowboys… At Our Expense
Let’s all gather ‘round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol’ Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today’s hardy, hard-working cowboys. Yes, those manly men who live free-spirited, yippy-ti-yi-yo, cowboy lives out in the rustic ranch country of the Rocky Mountain West. Oh, wait…
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Who’s Behind The GOP’s Assault on Homeless People?
Memo from corporate headquarters to staff: “Notice – the beatings will continue until employee morale improves.” That corporate joke would also fit the perverse ethic of the Republican Party’s latest assault on homeless Americans. Believe it or not, the Party’s new homeless…