Articles by Jim Hightower

Fashion Victims

May 8, 2013 | The gravitational pull of corporate greed makes clothing factories prone to disasters like the recent tragedy in Bangladesh.

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Big Ag Chokes on Its Own Scam

May 7, 2013 | Big Ag's eager to keep us all in the dark about what they're doing to the pigs, cows, and chickens under their care.

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Narco-State Building

May 1, 2013 | After 11 years of U.S. military operations, Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world's poppies and 75 percent of the planet's heroin.

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Whitewashing 8 Awful Years

April 30, 2013 | At Bush's pharaonic "Presidential Center," we commoners can dig deep into the shallowness of his achievements.

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Making Poverty a Crime

April 24, 2013 | Jailing indigents for debts costs the courts way more than the fines they owe and violates the Constitution.