Why Did Argentina Elect a Right-Wing Non-Establishment Extremist?
More on the truly wacky new president of Argentina, Javier Milei who nevertheless may get some of his bad ideas implemented.
Read more...Category Archives: Privatization
PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet
More on why public private partnerships, aka PPPs, amount to private enrichment at public expense, not just governments but also users.
Read more...The Increasing Financialization of Germany
The FIRE sector capitalizes on Germany’s industrial decline as government diverts money from social programs to military.
Read more...City Caught Flat-Footed on Flood as Deluge Dredges Up Past Lessons
New York City parents, public officials and climate advocates all say the mayor and his team were ill-prepared for the effects of a storm that was on the radar days before.
Read more...The War in Ukraine Helps Advance the Great EU Neoliberal Project
Movers and shakers cash in while workers are disciplined and the welfare state is cut.
Read more...Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
Read more...Private Equity on Campus: Why College Students Are Sleeping in Cars
College students are still unable to find housing despite enrollment dropping since the start of the pandemic, and a major price-fixing lawsuit against corporate landlords sheds light on why.
Read more...Is Wagner Group Too Big to Fail?
John Helmer gives a somewhat contraian take on the Wagner Group and what the unwind of the Prigozhin affair means for Putin’s reelection.
Read more...Did a North Carolina Democratic Lawmaker Throw the Party Under the Bus for the Charter School Industry?
Tricia Cotham’s defection to the Republican Party has deep roots in the right-wing “school choice” movement.
Read more...The Mercenaries Who Fight for American Empire
How private military contractors, aka mercenaries, are now an essential part of America’s increasingly privatized wars.
Read more...Is Labour Purging the Left? Inside the Party’s Embattled Selection Process
‘This is the most fundamental attempt to change the DNA of the Labour Party in its entire history’
Read more...Richard Murphy: Do We Trash the Planet or Have Things We Value, Like the NHS? That Is the Question
An examination of the economic law that says as the private sector improves productivity by destroying the planet and creating awful jobs, what’s left of the public sector must do the same.
Read more...Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
Read more...Defeat of a School Voucher Program Reveals Motives Behind the ‘School Choice’ Debate
A newfangled school voucher scheme, “education success accounts,” was too much even for the conservative Virginia House to swallow.
Read more...Sen. Sanders Shows Fire, but Seeks Modest Goals, in His Debut Drug Hearing as Health Chair
“What am I missing in thinking that it’s cruel to make a medicine that people can’t afford?”
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