Matt Bruenig: Land as Soil and Land as Space
Looking at arguments used to justify original claims on land (meaning private ownership versus common ownership or use).
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LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business
The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...The Wine Country Fires: Is Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) a Rogue Utility?
PG&E, tree-trimming, and profit.
Read more...Another Privatization Fail: 5 Things You Don’t Know About School Lunches (but Probably Should)
School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Dean Baker: Social Security A Success Story- Can It Withstand Privatization Attacks?
Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...One-Month Anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire: Status Update
The current state of play at Grenfell Tower, with a question yet to be answered.
Read more...Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
Read more...Trump-Style Policies Will Deepen the “American Carnage”
An in-depth look at Trump’s economic plans shows they would enrich the 1% and hurt the “forgotten people” he promised to help.
Read more...Photographs from Grenfell Tower
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I said I had some things to do before I left London; one of them was to go see if I could take some photographs of Grenfell Tower. We don’t normally do photo essays at Naked Capitalism, but since I was on the spot, I thought it made sense. The […]
Read more...The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Privatization conflates public and private interests. In conflicts between them, the private interests win out.
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