Category Archives: Privatization

Outsourcing: A Personal Window on the Rise of Grifting

Some vignettes from the rise of outsourcing.

McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects

McKinsey and some other big consulting names are taking advantage of Covid-overwhelmed state governments.

Stop Girdling the Post Office

A pre-election reminder of the importance of saving the Post Office.

Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis

The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?

Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century

Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?

As of September 29, 2020, 5 Federal Courts Have Ruled Against the Postal Service

The Postal Service is getting whacked for service degradation that critics believe has a lot to do with upcoming voting by mail.

‘Dereliction of Duty’: Outrage as USPS Board Issues Gushing Praise for DeJoy Amid Mail Slowdowns, Medicine Delays, and Straw-Donor Scandal

The latest sordid episode in the teardown of the US mail service.

Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft

Due to the economic fallout of Covid-19, charter schools added to systemic inequities that afflict black communities.

US Tax Dollars Funded Every New Drug in the Last Decade

Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019

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….