Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower is a populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator.   He writes The Hightower Lowdown, a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at HightowerLowdown.org.

Smedley Butler: The Retired General Who Stopped a Wall Street Coup

General Smedley Butler blew the whistle on a Wall Street led corporate coup against Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.

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By Jim Hightower
U.S. Marines Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler gestures as he addresses the New York State convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Albany, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1936. Butler believes there will be a return to national prohibition. (AP Photo)

Many Americans would be shocked to learn that political coups are part of our country’s history. Consider the Wall Street Putsch of 1933. Never heard of it? It was a corporate conspiracy to oust Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had just been elected president. With the Great Depression raging and millions of families financially devastated, FDR had

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With the Media Fixated on Trump, the Koch Brothers Flex Corporate Cash

Koch money goes into all sorts of foundations, business lobbying groups, dark-money groups, higher-education and high school groups.

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By Jim Hightower
Kock Brother Campaign Contributions Dark Money

Multibillionaires Charles and David Koch want nothing less than to supplant America's core democratic principle of majority rule -- the will of The People -- with their core plutocratic principle of inviolable property rights, also known as domination by the wealthy minority. Their notion is that "property" (accumulated wealth and the means to get

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