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Privatization
Noam Chomsky: “Bradley Manning Should Be Regarded as a Hero”
Laura Flanders interviews Noam Chomsky about Manning, the TransPacific Partnership and the wisdom of the indigenous.
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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
Detroit: Donald Cohen Warns of Privatization, Calls for Bailout
Detroiters are threatened with losing democratic control over public services.
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Me the people: public good, private greed
A few days ago, I decided to celebrate the beautiful summer morning by taking my dog, Chance, to the off-leash park at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.
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Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured – But Not His Legacy
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …
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Reclaiming Public Control Over Public Assets and Destructive Outsourcing
Short-term efforts to close budget gaps can have a disastrous long-term impact.
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The Pushback Against Privatization Across the Country
State and local governments are reconsidering whether companies should be allowed to profit off of taxpayer dollars with limited accountability.
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Munching Away on the “Public Good“
The corporatization of everything is squeezing the life out of crucial institutions, chewing up the concept of the
The Educational Deficit and the War on Youth: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux
Giroux writes on pedagogy and fundamentalism in his book, “America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth.”
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School Data Profiteering
A new nonprofit called inBloom will collect information from student records and provide third-party for-profit companies access to students' data.