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Business That Delivers for the Common Good
I’ve always supported small business, including having my own little media operation that has long allowed me to run my mouth for a living....
AI Billionaires Want You to Save Them When They Need a Bailout
Step right up folks! Please don’t crowd! No need to shove, plenty here for everyone! Welcome to the Bonanza Extravaganza of the Artificial I...
The System Is NOT “Rigged”… Say Those Who Rigged It
Millions of us are mad as hell at the moneyed establishment for constantly rigging the system against America’s workaday majority. Those rig...
The Gilded Age of Billion-Dollar Political Bribery
Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back… maybe 10 years or so? In those olden times, if someone or some corporat...
VIDEO: Democrats Can Win the Heartland
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.com Last week, Hightower and I sat down for a couple bee...
Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants
From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people feel helple...
Shouldn’t Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public?
A core role of the US Department of Justice is to protect people from abusees by giant corporations. But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twis...
Would You Buy a Lump of Coal from Trump?
Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? One of the most perverse presidential moves ever is Trump’s Big Government decree to force...
A.I. Billionaires to Grassroots People: Shut Up!
REMINDER! Join us TONIGHT at 6pm CT for happy hour live with Cory Haala, author of “When Democrats Won the Heartland.” Other than the fact t...
The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools
In this day of AI smart tools, it’s easy to forget that we humans once relied on “dumb” hand tools like saws, drills, screwdrivers, and wren...
The Invasion of Water-Sucking Billionaires
In America’s frontier days, anyone diverting a town’s creek water to their private, profiteering purpose was not merely considered wrong, bu...
The Sad Ballad of the Big Fool
Years ago, when America was mired in the horror of the Vietnam war, Pete Seeger wrote a lament about the stupidity and vanity of leaders who...
Democrats: Don’t Forget That You’re Supposed to Be a Party!
Washington’s Democratic Party establishment keeps demanding that progressive members tone down their criticism of billionaire oligarchs and...
The Goofy Billionaires Cult Is Planning Our Post-Human Future
CGB stands for the Cult of Goofy Billionaires, and they are way, way, waaay goofier than you might imagine. I’m talking about prestigious, f...
Corporate Giants Swindling $166 Billion From Consumers
Years ago, Ray Charles sang: “Them that’s got is them that gets, and I ain’t got nothin’ yet.” Millions of workaday Americans today are wail...
How Immoral Have Corporate Bosses Become?
“Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today’s corporate bosses. Take mingy CE...
Forget Being "Moderate"—Democrats Should Be the Mad-As-Hell Party
There are towns in Texas named New Deal, Fair Play, Progresso, Utopia—and even Buck Naked! But what you won’t find is any town called “Moder...
A Government Of, By, and For Billionaires?
Congress keeps churning out laws that the great majority of us have explicitly, consistently, and loudly said we do not want ! Are those law...
The Fall of Trumpty-Dumpty’s Great Wall
Even in this ugly era of political divisiveness under “King Donald,” some things remain bigger than partisan politics. For example, travel d...