The Highroad

Many Americans can’t believe that political coups are part of our country’s history, but consider the “Wall Street Putsch” of 1933. Never heard of...

I don’t think so, but Cargill Inc. is doing its damndest to get away with its version of the old admonition that eating your cake today means not having it tomorrow. Cargill, the $2.3 billion-a-year food conglomerate, is a huge producer and user of food ingredients ...

Headlines periodically blare that this regulator or that has imposed another jaw-dropping assessment on some gross polluter or other corporate criminal. “Justice Department Slaps...

This spring, President Trump created an inter-agency federal task force to propose structural reforms in the U.S. Postal Service. In only two months, the...

It was one of those bold policy decisions made by George “The Decider” Bush. In 2005, to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, Bush directed that an electronic “virtual fence” be built to detect “bad guys” trekking into our country. Of course, like all things Bush, he ...

Imagine if a couple of national leaders dared to stand up to the corporate powers that have taken control of government. Imagine if one of them came right out and said, “I [am] fed up of living in a country ruled by lies, cynicism and greed.” And imagine if these ...

As a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but you have to start with a large fortune.” Farmers tend...

How ironic: Fracking recently got fracked...

Every state legislature has its share of incompetent, insensitive and often incomprehensible goobers sitting in seats of power. Sometimes you have to wonder who helps them work the doorknobs to get out of their houses each morning...

Words can be discombobulating when people twist them to fit concepts that are the exact opposite of what the word actually means...

Thanksgiving… let’s eat...

Even the word “greed” is not negative enough to characterize the all-out assault on workers by today’s corporate elite...