The Chicken and the Egg: Animal Rights Breakthroughs
Animal rights activists had a good year, but watch out for tRump! Those who say that we ordinary people can’t have any effect on today’s corporate behemoths should … Read more
Jim Hightower
Wall Street Plowboys Buying Up Farms
Of course, these modern day slavers don’t soil their own soft hands on their farms. John Steinbeck’s novel “Grapes of Wrath.” Woody Guthrie’s ballad “Deportee.” Edward R. Murrow’s … Read more
It’s Time to Put Food Policy Back on the Table
The economic devastation in farm country continues unabated as agribusiness profiteers, Wall Street speculators, urban sprawlers and corrupted political elites continue to set food policy. During the farm crisis … Read more
Trump Rushes to Aid the Needy… of Wall Street!
Remember Trump-the-candidate fulminating against these very Wall Street elites? Of all the economic pain in America that Washington ought to be relieving, what group would you choose as … Read more
Is Trump’s America Our America?
Which are we? The America of courage, or of fear? Are we the great America of courage, spunk, openness, inclusion, opportunity and democratic promise — as expressed in … Read more
The Republican Plan to ‘Save’ Social Security Would Ruin It
With this scam plan to “save” Social Security, workers would keep paying the same 12.4 percent tax on their wages, but would get drastically less paid back to … Read more
We Can Beat Back the Reign of Trump
What Trump DIDN’T say in his blustery speeches will surprise his supporters. Buckle up, friends. Most Americans are about to be detoured onto a rough and rocky back … Read more
Searching for Integrity in Trumplandia
Trump threatens tariffs on foreign-made goods, so what about his daughter Ivanka’s company? It’s about time America has a president who will stand up to those greed-headed corporate … Read more
A Political Party Worth Joining
Democrats vs Republicans? That’s so old hat. The best political party in America is not the Dems nor the Repubs. By far, the best political party is a … Read more
What is the ‘Trump Fix’?
The Trump transition team is a viper’s nest of pay-to-play corporate interests. In Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, it was his frequent, unbridled slaps at Wall Street elites and … Read more
