2-minutes Archives • Page 40 of 129 • Hightower Lowdown

Avoid Amazon's "Cyber Monday," and buy local

December 2014

It’s “Cyber Monday” – get out there and buy stuff! But you don’t actually have to go anywhere, for this... Read more...

Obama's Thanksgiving pardon of Republican turkeys

November 2014

Thanksgiving – a time of grace and family sharing – will get an extra bit of grace from the White... Read more...

Buy local beer, books… and why not seafood?

November 2014

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, consider “early mortality syndrome.” Sounds gruesomely lethal, doesn’t it? Luckily, this... Read more...

Obama's Thanksgiving pardon of Republican turkeys

November 2014

Thanksgiving – a time of grace and family sharing – will get an extra bit of grace from the White... Read more...

America's good food movement

November 2014

What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels! I’m talking about the growing movement of small farmers,... Read more...

The Walmartizaton of Thanksgiving

November 2014

Everyone from the Obama family in the White House to my little family in Texas will take a deserved pause... Read more...

Wall Street speculators are walling off young farmers

November 2014

Gabillionaires who invest in hedge funds generally have the ethical and aesthetic sensibilities of dirt clods. As far as they... Read more...

Synthetic food: Our future doesn't taste good

November 2014

Armed with hefty grants from the Pentagon, squads of corporate and governmental food technologists are on a mission to supplant... Read more...

Let workers vote on CEO's pay

November 2014

One difference between top executives and worker bees, is that those at the top can lower the pay of those... Read more...

Validating Marriott's low-wage exploitation

November 2014

As an old popular song asks, what do you get if you “work your fingers right down to the bone?”... Read more...

A General tells the truth about the lies of war

November 2014

In 1918, reflecting on World War I, Sen. Hiram Johnson said: “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” Actually,... Read more...

Wall Street sodbusters reap farm profits

November 2014

We know from the childhood song that Old McDonald had a farm – but e-i-e-i-o – look who’s got his... Read more...

Pity the poor stressed-out rich

November 2014

Here’s a random thought that might not have occurred to you: It’s not easy being rich. Well, yes, there are... Read more...

Silicon Valley Profits From Systemic Labor Exploitation

November 2014

The demigods of Silicon Valley like to present themselves as miracle workers, able to create electronic wonders (and wondrous profits)... Read more...

Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture Policy

November 2014

A bumper sticker from around 2008 offered a stinging, four-word response to the Bush-Cheney regime’s enthusiasm for the cruel sport... Read more...

Exposing the secret corporate coup of our democratic elections

November 2014

A big surprise in this year’s elections is that American politics has become dominated by the least likely of participants:... Read more...

Surrealistic rule in the Silicon Valley

November 2014

Silicon Valley, located somewhere between sensational and silly, has long been led by entrepreneurial billionaires with a surreal relationship to... Read more...

Florida police swat at barbers

November 2014

When it comes to policing an area, the good people of Orange Country, Florida are lucky, because they’ve got the... Read more...

Cosmetic giants wage non-stop make-up war

November 2014

In the US alone, the cosmetics industry pulls in some $70 billion a year in sales of what’s commonly called... Read more...

Mitch McConnell's gardening lesson

November 2014

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell recently proclaimed: “The best interest of the country would be achieved by pulling out Obamacare,... Read more...

State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor

November 2014

Loan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks. Though they’ve tried to buff-up their... Read more...

Arms peddlers discover your town… and tax dollars

November 2014

Don’t look now, but the overbearing power of America’s military-industrial-complex has probably snuck into your town. The multibillion-dollar global armament... Read more...