Preserve Our Post Office, Before It’s Too Late
It ought to be stunning that the Post Office needs to be defended….
Read more...Category Archives: Privatization
The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.”
Read more...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?
Read more...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.
Read more...Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Weaken the School Privatization Agenda
Coronavirus-generated suspensions of testing throws a monkey wrench into the charter school agenda.
Read more...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.
Read more...The “Fixing Capitalism” Headfake
Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
Read more...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.
Read more...“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Phase One of Grenfell Tower Inquiry Released, Towers Not Up to Code, Suggestions for Firefighters
Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...A Bitter(Sweet) Pill: The Impacts of Private Provision of Medicaid
A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren’t justified?
Read more...Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout
How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
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