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What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/04/09

“Somebody better investigate soon.” That’s a lyric in Bob Dylan’s “Oxford Town,” a 1962 song deploring the relentless murdering of Black people and civil rights activists in the Deep South. The line mocks the refusal of racist officials to punish the White murderers, instead cynically covering up atrocities by promising do-nothing “investigations.”

Reminder: LIVE: Happy Hour with Hightower and... you!

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/04/08

Join us on Tuesday, April 9th at 7pm ET / 6pm CT

How Many Dead Firefighters Does It Take to Ban Asbestos?

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/04/04

If your home or business is suddenly being engulfed in flames, you count on a quick response from the fire department. But who rushes to aid firefighters when so many of the burning buildings they enter are contaminated with chrysotile asbestos – a cancer-causing product so deadly that it’s banned in over 50 countries? So far, no one.

LIVE: Happy Hour with Hightower and... you!

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/04/03

Join us here on Tuesday, April 9th at 7pm ET for an open thread live Q&A

Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/04/02

Free Market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their assertion of corporate greed over public need. Consider their far-fetched of Laissez-fairyland tale that by allowing corporate giants to dodge the billions of tax dollars they owe to our country, the top executives of those corporations will plow that money into new jobs, products, and services for the Common Good. The ideologues assure us innocents that this is the “magic of the

How Oily Is Big Oil’s Latest PR Campaign?

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/28

If you’re concerned about fossil fuels and climate change, consider an energy source that, according to its backers, will make everyday living “comfortable and healthier.” What is this miraculous substance?

Should We Be Polite as the GOP Stomps on Our...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/26

When a fox attacks a hen house, is it uncivil for the hens to raise a ruckus? Two Supreme Court justices say it is. Elevating collegiality above social justice, right-wing extremist Amy Coney Barrett and progressive jurist Sonia Sotomayor have jointly been hailing America’s top Court as a model of genteel political discourse, claiming that the six Republicans and three Democrats disagree agreeably. “We do not interrupt one another, and we never raise our voices,”

Why Are We Letting Financial Hucksters Dictate Our...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/21

Too many American newspapers have shut down or shriveled to irrelevance, but, luckily, we still have such bastions of local journalism as the Chicago Chronicle and New York News Daily. But wait… those aren’t real newspapers, aren’t local, and aren’t even American. T

Happy National Agriculture Day!

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/20

Did you know that that yesterday was National Agriculture Day? We didn’t! In fact, some of us didn’t even know such a designated day existed until we saw Farm Aid’s post about it on Facebook. While the holiday itself is driven by a nonprofit with rather questionable

Sen. Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/19

Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised response to Joe Biden’s State-of-the-Union speech. Sadly, her moment in the national limelight was widely panned, even by Republicans, for her presentation was overwrought and – well, cringey. But the visuals pale to insignificance when you consider that her partisan presentation was based on an intentional, abject lie – exacerbated by her shameful

Friday Signpost: A Lotta Luck Happening in Texas

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/15

Yesterday, Hightower had the great pleasure to head over to the Luck Reunion, an annual festival of music, food and more held on Willie Nelson’s infamous Luck Ranch. It’d be enough to just attend and experience such a wonderful cross-cultural gathering, but Hightower was invited to speak on a panel discussion organized by

Tom Paine: What a Guy!

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/14

In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not Washington or Jefferson – nor, technically, he wasn’t even an American. Rather, he was a British immigrant and itinerate agitator for real democracy, enlightenment, and universal human rights.

Guess What? Americans Want to Be WOKE!

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/12

Well, well, well – look who’s waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. WOKE! We so-called “woke” people have been the target of far-right politicos and front groups that are frantically trying to ban u…

"Served Up on the Table:" Happy International Women's...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/08

Deanna here, wishing you a happy International Women’s Day! This photo has always cracked me up, ever since I started working with Hightower almost 20 years ago. It’s obviously him in the middle, but who are these women sitting around the table? Turns out, they’re the leadership of the infamous revolution that was the

Is “Icarus” the Solution to Climate Change?

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/07

Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach umbrella? Check. Tinted car windows? Check. A huge, multi-trillion-dollar parasol floating in outer space to reduce global warming

What If There Was a Natural Substitute for Plastic?...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/03/05

In 1863, humorist Artemus Ward wrote a satire on hucksterism, making up a tale of Abe Lincoln being asked to endorse a piece of quackery about spiritualism. Not wanting to offend, the Lincoln character slyly offers non-committal praise: “Well for people who like that kind of thing, I think that is just about the kind of thing they’d like.”

How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer a Train Wreck

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/02/29

“Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while simultaneously killing it. A classic case is now unfolding around last year’s derailment of a 2-mile-long Norfolk Southern freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. The community’s air, soil, water, and people suffered a massive spill of toxic chemicals.

What Happened to the “Miracle of Meatless Meat”?

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/02/27

“Step right up, folks, and bite into the wondrous future of meat!” Cheap meat! Ethical meat! Animal meat you love – beef, chicken, pork, fish, etc. – all produced without animals! It’s the miracle of “meatless meat” – a viscous mass derived from “fetal bovine serum,” then grown not on ranches, but in huge vats in corporate factories. Science marches on!

Abortion-Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to...

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/02/22

Here’s our Big Word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. The most prominent use of it was in the infamous

Where Did Our Local Newspapers Go?

Jim Hightower"s Lowdown ·

2024/02/20

I no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus the news part – news that our community once counted on to keep up with local government doings, corporate shenanigans, citizen actions, and other critical features of our city’s democratic life. What happened? Wall Street profiteers swept in a few years ago to conglomeratize, homogenize, and financialize, the

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