Jim Hightower: Texas goober's nutty rant, secret corporate donors, and more!

The mendacity of GMO purveyors

By Jim Hightower - Thu., 10/9/14

Tenacity can be a virtue. But the persistent push by giant food conglomerates to deceive us consumers has turned their tenacity into raw mendacity.
Brand-name food peddlers are spending hundreds of... [read more]

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A gross purchase of GOP governors

By Jim Hightower - Wed., 10/8/14

Perhaps you think that corporations use their campaign donations to buy politicians who then deliver public policies the corporate donors want. And perhaps you think this is corrupt, anti-democratic, and… well, stinky.
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Validating Marriott's low-wage exploitation

By Jim Hightower - Tue., 10/7/14

As an old popular song asks, what do you get if you "work your fingers right down to the bone?" Boney fingers.
As housekeepers in the sprawling Marriott chain of hotels... [read more]

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GOP boo-boo reveals secret corporate donors

By Jim Hightower - Mon., 10/6/14

Some people have a recurring nightmare of rising to give a speech, but realizing they know nothing about the topic – then realizing they're naked.
It turns out that corporations also... [read more]

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Another nutty rant by another Texas goober

By Jim Hightower - Fri., 10/3/14

In Texas, not all goobers are produced by peanut farmers. A bumper crop of some of our nuttiest goobers come out of far-right-wing political soil.

Check out this blue-ribbon specimen: Todd... [read more]