A Modest Proposal: Securitizing Loans for Large Health Care Expenses
Health care loans are the equivalent of mortgages for large health care expenses. What could go wrong?
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Campbell Brown: The New Leader of the Propaganda Arm of School Privatization
How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
Read more...Online Public Schools Are a Disaster, Admits Billionaire, Charter School-Promoter Walton Family Foundation
Online public schools now assume a surprisingly large role and do a terrible job, providing yet more proof that charter schools are about looting, not education.
Read more...Capitalism Versus The Social Commons
How the struggle over who controls the commons, the monied classes or a broader group of citizens, reveals the fundamental contradictions of capitalism.
Read more...5 of the Worst Examples of Biased and Distorted Media Coverage of Education in 2015
It’s not hard to see that the effort to loot, um, privatize education has an attack on teachers as a big part of its strategy…which undermines support for education.
Read more...How Prefunding Retiree Health Benefits Impacts the Postal Service’s Bottom Line – and How Brookings Got it Wrong
Exposing the serious numerical and conceptual flaws of yet another study that uses the trumped-up claim that the Postal Service is trouble to justify dismembering it.
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...UPS Continues Its “Wreck the Post Office” Campaign, Presses for Increases on Parcel Prices
An important update in UPS’ campaign for the stealth privatization of the Post Office.
Read more...Why Are Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools Suspending Students Left and Right?
It’s easy to be a “Success Academy” if you have rules that allow you to force out students that you think will be harder to teach.
Read more...Trading Away Land Rights: TPP, Investment Agreements, and the Governance of Land
The nvestment provisions in the TPP and in most bilateral investment treaties can severely limit a government’s ability to manage its land and other natural resources in the public interest.
Read more...Privatization, Charters & High-Stakes Tests: Arne Duncan’s Education Legacy
The remaking of public education continue, and not in a good way. A Real News Network interview helps keep tab on this struggle over America’s future.
Read more...Fatal Fraud? More Big Dollar Settlements by For-Profit Hospices
Non-terminal patients are being routed to hospices in a form of Medicare fraud, and the results can be deadly to their health.
Read more...The Right Wing’s Assault on the Post Office – Smashing the Myth That It’s in Financial Trouble
Yes, Virginia, the Post Office is cash flow positive and deserves to carry on as is.
Read more...Fight Over Postal Service Board Heats Up as Labor/Consumer Advocates/Minority Coalition Opposes Payday Lender Lobbyist, Privatization Backers
A broad coalition has taken the unusual step of opposing all of Obama’s five nominees to the Postal Service Board of Governors. But it’s the right move, given how terrible they are.
Read more...The History of Witchhunts and Their Relevance to the Present Day
Primitive accumulation, the peasant wars, and witchhunts as a means of social control.
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