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Jim Hightower

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.

May 24th, 2018

By Jim Hightower

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

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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Jim Hightower

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.

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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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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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Jim Hightower

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