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Why Congress is so popular

Demonstrating the depth of his insight into the problems of low-wage workers, GOP Rep. Bill Young of Florida recently “discussed” the...

“Fracking” by any other name…

You’ll be pleased to know that academics at such public-spirited institutions as Louisiana State University are dealing with the problem...

A fracking Obamination

doing awfully well these days with their supposed “enemy” Barack Obama. The industry appeared to lose a round to opponents...

Et tu, Obama?

On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying...

A real reform

What if drug marketers had to tell us the details of every under-the-table payment (aka bribes) that they make to...

The Stratfor File

What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain...

My Town

Even small cities like Austin, Texas, where I live, usually have a thriving co-op business community. To show the breadth...

The entire court system is infested

Unfortunately, the corporatization of America’s judiciary is not just a problem at the top. For more than 30 years, there has...

Surging in Afghanistan

Surging in Afghanistan The surge is on in Afghanistan! Unfortunately, what appears to be most effective is not the 30,000...

The corporate squeeze

Profits up!” gloat today’s headlines in the business media. The New York Times reports that the profits of 175 of...

The Thinkers

To put an intellectual gloss on their hard-core antigovernment beliefs, the Kochs founded and funded their own think tank: the...

Corporate personhood

The fanciful notion that a corporation is a “person” and is thus imbued with fundamental constitutional rights stems from–get this–a mistake....

We’ll reform! We promise!

In a show of their selfless commitment to reform, a gaggle of health-industry lobbyists trotted out with President Obama last...

Name those greedheads!

Last month, I asked my radio listeners to come up with new words to describe the abominable sense of self-entitlement...

The Lowdown is 10!

Hightower and I launched the Lowdown in March 1999 with an issue about how the World Trade Organization was forcing multinational corporations’ version of...

The CIA’S uprising in Afghanistan

You’ve gotta love the CIA for trying. It’ll give anything a shot–including a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding...

Union faces down banker greed

IRONICALLY, AT THE VERY TIME that boneheaded senators in Washington were working furiously to impose their anti-union extremism on our country, most...

Congress gives Citi all it wants

A DECADE AGO, CITIGROUP led a full-court lobbying press on Washington, ultimately winning what big bankers, insurance giants, and high-rolling investment...

The bailout bonanza

The Bushites’ trillion-dollar giveaway started out as a bailout for banks with big holdings of investment schemes based on home mortgages....

McCain opens the spigots

“I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies, not only because of the obscene profits they’ve made, but at...
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