Jim Hightower

Let's talk chicken.

I don't mean clucking and cockadoodledooing, but the power of the bird. Most people hear the word "chicken" and immediately think: "Dinner!" Some commercial interests in Georgia, however,... [read more]

Goldman Sachs recently announced that the work of its investment bankers in the past year was so fabulous that they were being given bonuses totaling more than $16 billion. This caused many workaday Americans to... [read more]

In January, a cabal of five Supreme Court corporatists arrogantly overruled the founding fathers, congressional law, a century of court precedents, and basic common sense to declare that corporate money equals "speech," thus freeing these behemoths to dump unlimited sums... [read more]

They roll into Washington from the West, the North, the South – good ideas to make our national policies better, to make our economy fairer, to improve our nation. And these good ideas – still... [read more]

Who owns America? Wall Street, you say? The corporate powers?

Well, yes. But who owns them? The carefully contrived myth is that they are owned by you and me – the millions of mom & pop investors, pension-fund retirees, and people... [read more]

Isn't it great that America is standing so forcefully for fundamental principles of democracy around the world? We're standing side by side with some of the most notable, incredible, and astonishing democratic leaders on the globe today. Specifically, of course,... [read more]

Having decreed that Corporations have a free speech "right " to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to elect or defeat candidates in our elections, the Supreme Court's five-man corporatist majority has opened a colossal can of worms.... [read more]

What the White House needs is a good alchemist. Not a magician who can turn lead into gold, but a practitioner of the chemical arts who can formulate a new Viagra pill to stiffen backbones.

Obama and team seem incapable of... [read more]

Poor Toyota. Because of an explosion of deadly safety glitches in its cars, the Japanese auto giant is getting pounded by the media, scorched by public opinion, sued by customers, investigated by numerous regulators, and... [read more]

As you’ve probably heard, corporations are now “people.”

While these inanimate paper constructs have no brain, heart, or soul, five ideological screwballs on our Supreme Court have created a new... [read more]