Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown Podcast
1) A Christmas Message: There’s No Jesus in “Christian Nationalism”
In keeping with the season, I offer a little political anecdote about Christmas. More specifically, it’s about the moral teachings of the biblical Jesus, which formed the ethical foundation of Christm...Show More
2) AI Profiteers Cash-In By Being Naughty This Christmas
The high priests of Holy High Tech are in a huff, wailing that they’re being bothered by you busybodies, Luddites, and commoners – ie, The People. Grandiose gabillionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezo...Show More
3) Special Gifts for Special People
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I’m giving to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each of our Congress critters, I give my fondest wish that from now on they receive the exac...Show More
4) How New Mexico Got Child Care for All – And How You Can, Too
Ahh, Christmas time! The joy of children’s laughter! A time for caring, sharing, and giving! So, why not make this Christmas a time for giving something that most American children, families, and comm...Show More
5) Instead of Monopolistic, Profiteering Corporations, Let’s Try Free Enterprise
Having grown up in a small-business family, I’m a big proponent of free enterprise. But I detest corporatism. The corporate powers try to co-opt the enterprise label, but in fact they are direct oppos...Show More
6) Health Care by Kafka, Groucho, and Trump
What a mess. I mean America’s corporatized, bureaucratic, profiteering medical system. It’s as though the Marx Brothers and Franz Kafka conspired to create it. Yet, in the midst of that mess, there is...Show More
7) Big Oil’s Slick Attempt to Greenwash Its Massive Plastic Pollution
Let’s all sing the holiday classic: “All I want for Christmas… Is Something Not Made of Plastic.” Easier sung than done. Plastic is now ubiquitous in toys, electronics, tools, air, water… and us. And ...Show More
8) AI Bots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – Corporate Profiteers Are
Look out – the corporate cat is out of the bag! This particular “cat” is the fast-metastasizing software technology called “artificial intelligence.” A cadre of multibillion-dollar high-tech giants ha...Show More
9) Creating Our Own Thanksgiving Blessing
These days, with so much economic greed and political meanness in the news, it’s hard to lift your head up and notice the common goodness and community spirit that’s actually flourishing all around us...Show More
10) Trump and Walmart Make a Hash of Thanksgiving Dinner
Oh, thank goodness for Donald Trump! As millions of families struggle with the ever-rising price of groceries, The Donald is bragging that his economic policies have miraculously lowered prices, just ...Show More