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Friday Signpost: Forty Years Ago, Hightower Called His Shot
In October 1985, Jim Hightower sat down with C-SPAN for an hour-long call-in show.
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A Government Of, By, and For Billionaires?
One senator. 63 billionaire families. $8 million from one guy.
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The Fall of Trumpty-Dumpty’s Great Wall
Ranchers. Environmentalists. Sheriffs. Native Americans. All united against Trump's wall in Big Bend.
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Friday Signpost: How a clerical error made corporations “people”
A history lesson from Hightower, courtesy of 2003
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The Main Problem Today’s Billionaire “Geniuses” Have Is This: They’re Stupid
What these geniuses actually produced was a bumper crop of bankruptcies, for the tech bros knew nothing about farming.
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The Deep Lowdown, Issue #1: What Is Populism?
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What in the Name of Jesus Is This?
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A little bookstore in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently hit the puffed-up Big Tech elites where they’re most vulnerable: The funny bone. Magic City Books put up…
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Billionaire Gangs Marauding Through Rural America
A private equity predator named Apollo Global Management recently fleeced a New York county for $1.4 billion in “job-creation” subsidies for a sprawling…
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My Message to Billionaires: Money Is Like Manure
An East Texas farmer pointed out to me years ago: “Money is like manure. You can’t just pile it up. It only works if you spread it across the…
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Friday Signpost: Hightower's been saying this for 38 years
Donald Trump did *what* in 1988?!
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Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity
While the economy somewhere between a downer and devastating for most people, the CEO class made out like bandits, with each of the three top paid…
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The Reality of the Virtual Metaverse
Zuckerberg has now pulled the plug on his fantasy of a digital, virtual, immersive, avatar world of tech “reality.” Don’t think, however, that goofy…
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🔥 You showed up. Now take heart — and fight back.
72 new subscribers, 100,000 views, and a whole lot of fight in us
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