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Jim Hightower

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Trump is Forcing Coal Pollution on Consumers and Communities

Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? In one of the most perverse Big Government moves ever, last year President Trump proclaimed an...

04.06.2026 4

CounterPunch

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Shouldn’t Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public?

The present DOJ has its mission backwards — providing protection for corporate abusers from people seeking justice. A core role of the U.S....

02.06.2026 7

Humor Times

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AI Billionaires to Grassroots People: Shut Up!

Millions of artificial intelligence robots are being installed in nearly every workplace, thanks to the new AI billionaires. Other than the fact that...

28.05.2026 8

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The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools

Looks like the real tools were the workers, blithely discarded now that Stanley Tools has orchestrated a move out of the U.S. In this day of AI smart...

21.05.2026 10

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Democrat Insiders: Don’t Forget That You’re Supposed to Be a Party!

Democrat insiders want to rebrand the party as ideologically moderate, but that’s a mistake. Washington’s Democratic Party establishment keeps...

13.05.2026 10

Humor Times

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Tariffs Ruled Illegal: Where’s Our Refund?

The Supreme Court decreed Trump’s tariffs illegal. Consumers paid the bulk of them, so we’re due some refunds, right? Years ago, Ray Charles...

07.05.2026 10

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How Immoral Have Mingy Corporate Bosses Become?

Mingy CEOs have been refusing to accommodate their pregnant employees. “Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing...

28.04.2026 10

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The Fall of Trumpty-Dumpty’s Great Wall

The “Great Wall” is the xenophobic piece of nastiness pushed by Stephen Miller, Trump’s tyrannical anti-immigrant chief. Even in this ugly era...

23.04.2026 20

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Rising Progressive Populist Revolt Stuns AI Profiteers

AI profiteers want to divert vast amounts of rural land, water and energy to build and run their Orwellian empires. There’s a clique of plutocratic,...

14.04.2026 10

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My Message to Billionaires: Money is Like Manure

“Money is like manure. It only works if you spread it across the grassroots.” Given the increasing dominance of right-wing politics by arrogant,...

07.04.2026 10

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The Reality of the Virtual Metaverse

That glorious future of “The Metaverse,” promised to us by Silicon Valley’s tech and financial geniuses, has been pronounced DOA. Our future was...

31.03.2026 10

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Oh, the Horror! Billionaires Threatened with Taxation

A ballot initiative to put a one-time wealth tax on the uber-rich has billionaires screaming, “Taxation without representation!” We Americans are...

26.03.2026 20

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Despised Billionaires Seek Refuge in Billionaire Bunker

In their new doomsday compound, each of the uber-rich will be hunkered down in what’s been dubbed a “Billionaire Bunker.” Trust me when I say...

17.03.2026 20

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AI Data Centers: Hucksters Bribing Legislators?

11.03.2026 20

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The Trump Name is not ‘Golden’ – it’s Just Fool’s Gold

04.03.2026 30

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Beware Of AI Swill – OpEd

George Orwell spoke bluntly about the nefarious nature of advertising, calling it “the rattling of a stick inside a swill

03.03.2026 10

Eurasia Review

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Jesse Jackson’s Most Consequential Power Was Not His Oratory – but His Vision

24.02.2026 30

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Who Were Those Masked Men? Feds Invade America!

If I were doing some of the stuff the ICE masked men are doing, I’d want to cover my face, too. Except for the masked men Zorro and Batman, people...

20.02.2026 100

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The GOP’s Solution To Corruption: Just Legalize It – OpEd

If you’re ever asked to define the word oxymoron, just say “Congressional ethics.” People instinctively burst out guffawing at the

08.02.2026 10

Eurasia Review

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Even in a Digital Age, Handwriting Remains Invaluable

04.02.2026 30

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Why Is the Pentagon Barring Military Weapons Repair?

28.01.2026 20

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Dirty Coal vs Clean Energy: Guess Who’s Winning?

21.01.2026 20

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Look! Up in the Sky … It’s a Bird, a Plane … an AI Data Center!

14.01.2026 20

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Pollution Protector – For Profiteering Polluters

07.01.2026 30

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Why America’s Legislatures Routinely Screw Working Families

31.12.2025 20

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A Christmas Message: There’s No Jesus in ‘Christian Nationalism’

25.12.2025 30

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How New Mexico Got Child Care for All — And How You Can, Too

17.12.2025 20

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AI Bots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – Corporate Profiteers Are

03.12.2025 20

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Trump and Walmart Make a Hash of Thanksgiving Dinner

26.11.2025 20

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Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ Sings Woody Guthrie’s ‘Mean Talking Blues’

Woody Guthrie’s ‘Mean Talking Blues’ is a perfect theme song for President Donald Trump’s “Project 2025.” Years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote...

19.11.2025 20

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Let’s Bust the Food Monopolists Profiteering on Thanksgiving

12.11.2025 20

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Instead of Consumerism, Let’s Try Consumer Sharing

06.11.2025 20

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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up – OpEd

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich

31.10.2025 10

Eurasia Review

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You Can’t Learn From History If You Keep Covering It Up

Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures — along with our rich...

30.10.2025 30

CounterPunch

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Another Hellacious Idea from the Texas Laboratory of Bad Government

29.10.2025 20

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What if Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?

23.10.2025 100

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America’s History, Says Lord Trump, Is Exactly What I Say It Is

15.10.2025 10

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Gov Abbott Says His Presidential Ambition Is ‘God’s Design’

14.10.2025 20

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Elon Musk Should Pay the Same Social Security Tax That You Do

My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard. Yet I do consider myself rich. Not Wall...

09.10.2025 30

CounterPunch

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Warning: Just Reading About Bayer’s Greed Can Cause Headaches

25.09.2025 20

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No Need to Raise Social Security Taxes — Make the Rich Pay Their Full Share!

17.09.2025 20

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This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

03.09.2025 20

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Beware! Congress is Stuck in Reverse

29.08.2025 20

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The Texas Gerrymander Is an Attack on the Foundation of Representative Democracy

28.08.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Trump is for Sale, Sure, but You Can Also Lease Him

13.08.2025 10

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Can Feisty Journalists Rescue Their Newspaper from Corporate Greed … Again?

06.08.2025 20

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Gaza Is a Moral Reckoning for Israel – And for You and Me

01.08.2025 20

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Disaster Warning: Profiteers Are Trying to Privatize America’s Public Weather Service

22.07.2025 20

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Sanitation Workers Should be Paid More than Trump’s Cabinet

Surprisingly, top Republicans in Congress and the White House have recently been praising labor! Well, not laborers — but “laboring.”...

22.07.2025 20

CounterPunch

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Can Trump’s Perfume Cloak the Stink of GOP Corruption?

16.07.2025 20

Humor Times

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