The Basement Tapes

The Netherworld of Iconoclastic Music

"...release Dispepsi isn't likely to improve Negativland's standing in corporate America, either -- especially with the folks who make..."

March 28, 1997 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Hightower Report

Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America

"...The basic problem facing the corporate and political powers who want you and me to..."

April 8, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

Jurassic World

Bigger isn’t necessarily better

"...who are vacationing in the allegedly “safe” (yeah, right) corporate theme park of the title only to find themselves..."

June 12, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Report

Goldman's Singapore Sling; and Flipping Us the Bird

"...enterprises. However, they took the money and ran, leaving America's workaday families mired in a jobless swamp. Meanwhile, Goldman..."

July 29, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Reining in Corporate Tax Dodgers; and Doping Racehorses to Win Fast Bucks

"...Reining in Corporate Tax Dodgers..."

May 15, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Problem Is Real and Serious

"...by the rich for the rich. While the multibillion-dollar corporate media apparatus distracts us with the infotainment pseudo-journalism, reality..."

Feb. 6, 2006 Postmarks

The Hightower Lowdown

Gifts for pets and corporate spies, and Michael Milken lobbies for a presidential pardon.

"...Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham to finance hostile corporate takeovers that cost tens of thousands of workers their..."

Dec. 29, 2000 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report: Why Can't Our Economy Promote Equality and Shared Prosperity?

A grassroots coalition is taking on the corporate elites

"...those closed doors, write our own rules, and reverse America's plunge into plutocracy. Called "Take On Wall Street," the..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Corporate-media symbiosis

"...get away with running roughshod over us is that America's mass market media has been thoroughly corporatized – both..."

June 26, 2015 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Dead Executives; and Lawmakers Cash in as Lobbyists

"...Corporate CEOs are the golden ones of our economy. They..."

July 11, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

A business magazine gushes over the accounting practices of … Enron?; Bush gambles with your retirement money; and CEOs create "opportunity" by firing employees.

"...five-page cover story filled with breathless praise for the corporate accounting procedures used by (get ready now): Enron! Yes,..."

Jan. 4, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

Why We Listen to What They Say

"...people who are what I would call coerced by corporate America, coerced by television, coerced by the very systems..."

April 23, 1999 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...with stylish and captivating tales of queer, often closeted Americana, not a frumpy lawyer going through boxes and boxes..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Conservative Political Group ALEC Is Coming to Town (UPDATED)

Corporate group hosts mid-August legislative confab

"...The American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate group that drafts “model..."

Aug. 5, 2019 News Post by Michael King

The Hightower Report

What happened to America's train system?

"...Why are we Americans stuck with an out-of-date railroad system, while nations with..."

May 6, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Why has nefarious corporate behavior become so commonplace?

"...out the nefarious doings and innate immorality of the corporate creature...."

Feb. 5, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

The End of Poverty?

This documentary argues against economic globalization and corporate imperialism.

"...them) in the argument against globalization and rampant U.S.-led corporate imperialism, but it rarely supersedes or improves on its..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hightower Report

George W.'s corporate scolding reeks of hypocrisy; the Pentagon buys into Hollywood.

"...Just Another Corporate Greedhead..."

July 19, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

The Pentagon lies to us … and unashamedly admits it; Global Crossing investors and employees get Enronized; New York City whores its parks to the highest bidder.

"...His is the new face of Corporate America, the poster child of a whole new level..."

March 1, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Lowdown

ZapMe!'s snooping on kids, downsizing hurts the boss too, and Fleet Bank's fleeting sympathies

"...schoolyard snooping. Contact the coalition at 202/296-2787.The Sorrows Behind Corporate Pink Slips Here's a sorrow-filled story from The New..."

June 22, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Profit Motive

Activists oppose World Trade Organization

"...If the turnout at a recent "Corporate Globalization" forum here in Austin was any indication, the..."

Nov. 26, 1999 News Feature by Cheryl Bishop

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...there's still some avenging to be done. Now Captain America: Brave New World, the 35th feature in the franchise,..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Thoroughbreds

America's class system goes under a bloody scalpel.

"...be wasting her own lofty ambitions of Andover and corporate internships on the neighborhood outcast? Darker, twisting schemes are..."

March 9, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Al Gore reminds us (once again) that climate change is real

"...these days, no more so than in Donald Trump’s America. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary – fish..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Johnny English Reborn

Rowan Atkinson brings his particular brand of physical comedy to this James Bond spy spoof.

"...Few in North America have been clamoring for a sequel to Rowan Atkinson’s..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hightower Report

Corporate Monsters; and Change at the Chamber

"...Corporate Monsters..."

Oct. 30, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

Written in Stone

UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation

"...lowest in the copper mining industry – suggesting a corporate method to the mining madness at Grasberg...."

Sept. 23, 2005 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.

"...matters. Back in the day, this tiny cipher, an American John Peel if ever there were one, ruled the..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Defending Spanish Language Option

"...catering to this demographic. But for many people in America the use of Spanish is a new phenomenon; U.S...."

Dec. 15, 2003 Postmarks

The Hightower Lowdown

You Can't Keep the Earl of Sandwich Down; Donning the Mask of Corporate Reform

"...DONNING THE MASK OF CORPORATE REFORM..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

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