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January's Lowdown

Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how

We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.


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Welcome to the Hightower Lowdown archive! Here's where you'll find every issue by date; you can also search for what you're looking for. Note that our six most recent issues are available to subscribers only, but everything else is open to everyone!

2003

  • December: Cops were told to savage their fellow Americans
  • November: Tom DeLay thinks he’s God’s man in Congress
  • October: Who’s counting our votes? Bushite corporate bosses
  • September: Bush, Ashcroft & Co. vs. Jefferson, Madison & Co.
  • August: Citizens triumph over the kleptocrats
  • July: The corporate push for more trade scams
  • June: CEOs pay themselves $7,452 an hour (on average)
  • May: These guys have launched World War IV
  • April: How a clerical error made corporations "people"
  • March: Most of the world says no to Dubya’s war
  • February: How did we get in this handbasket?
  • January: The homeland rebels against the security act
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