Category Archives: Privatization

World Bank’s ‘Mobilizing Finance for Development’ Not Financing Development

The World Bank is trying to rebrand a failed public private partnership scheme as “blended finance”. Developing countries, beware.

UK Government Accused of New “U-Turn” on Local Covid Contact Tracing with Outsourcing Giants Serco and Sitel

“Local councils should be doing the whole lot, not just the mopping up. Serco and Sitel are cherry picking and doing the easy bits and leaving the difficult stuff to local authorities.”

House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Postal Service by Postmaster General

Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?

Preserve Our Post Office, Before It’s Too Late

It ought to be stunning that the Post Office needs to be defended….

Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus

The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.

Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic

A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.

Some Communities Are Being Forced to Fight School Closures and Privatization in the Midst of the Pandemic

Citizens opposing a school restructuring plan in Minneapolis remind local officials: “The educational system actually belongs to us.”

Will the United States Post Office Become a Victim of #COVID19?

Is there space for a deal in the next bailout bill for saving the Post Office?

What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency Rooms

A coronavirus whistleblower winds up also exposing that private equity has too much say in running emergency rooms.

A New Type of Conflict: France’s Ongoing Struggle for Pensions

The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.

The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake

Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.

The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business: The Reassurances Are Demonstrably False

British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.