Posts Tagged ‘privatization’

The Secret Privatization of The NHS

Dr Bob Gill has campaigned for a decade against the privatization of the NHS, and bringing the wider public’s attention to the secret government sell-off of a once great institution. Click Link For Richard Vobes Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGbfxUHWgTE   Watch Dr Bob Gill’s film here: Website: https://thegreatnhsheist.com/ Source: https://yandex.com/video/preview/12598733226414199355 Source

Biden infrastructure report pushes ‘disastrous water privatization schemes,’ watchdog says

“Instead of relying on Wall Street advisers, President Biden should support policies that will truly help communities.” Source

Public libraries continue to thrive despite defunding and privatization attacks

Efforts by governments and cities across the nation to defund the public library indicate a misunderstanding of the essential role that libraries play. Source

20 large companies on privatization list

TEHRAN – The head of the Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO) said that 20 large companies are on the list of privatizations. Hossein Qorbanzadeh said that by the middle of the next Iranian calendar month Mehr (early October) all the companies that are on the list of transfers will be transparent. In late July, the official […]

Govt. should diversify privatization methods: IPO head

TEHRAN – Hossein Qorbanzadeh, head of the Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO), has said in order to get better outcomes from the privatization programs, the government must diversify methods for handing over state-owned companies to the private sector. Source

Amazon Joins The Medicare Privatization Spree

Amazon, the $1.25 trillion company founded and led by Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, has announced that it is acquiring One Medical, a private equity-backed primary care provider that generates over half of its revenue from Medicare. While Amazon’s profits from its core consumer retail business are dwindling, in part because of heightened competition from brick-and-mortar retailers that were shut […]

‘Value-Based Care’ Is A Pretext For Privatization

Later this month, right before Medicare’s 57th birthday on July 30, corporate health care and the government players who facilitate their lucrative businesses, will gather for a summit on value-based care.   They will speak of driving health equity, of reaching underserved communities, of coordination of care, and accountable care.  They will insist that physicians share in risk just […]

How Public Workers Can Stop The Privatization Of Everything

Above Photo: For decades, work in the public sector has been a gateway to a middle-class life. But that’s changing. Joe Brusky / Flickr. In the New Book, The Privatization Of Everything, Cohen And Mikaelian, Describe And Debunk The Vast Array Of Privatization Schemes That Now Litter The Landscape. From Private Prisons And Charter Schools […]

ICCIMA head calls on govt. to pursue privatization, lifting sanctions

ICCIMA head calls on govt. to pursue privatization, lifting sanctions – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) has called on the government to support production by pursuing the removal of the U.S. sanction and implementing privatization. Making the remarks during the 16th ICCIMA board meeting on Sunday, […]

The privatization of violence: Right-wing Jerusalem thugs are an arm of the state

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Privatization of Israel’s coronavirus fight leads to questionable contracts, higher prices

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Are Postal Service Cuts Motivated By Voter Suppression, Privatization Or Both?

Above photo: Members of the Campaign for Postal Banking delivered more than 150,000 signatures on a petition to the U.S. Postal Service headquarters in December 2015. Throughout its 245-year history, the Postal Service has persevered through rain, snow, heat, the gloom of night, and even a global pandemic to serve the American people. But now this […]

Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service

As we warned earlier in the year, the US Postal Service is failing due to a long term effort to weaken it plus the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and intentional efforts by the Trump administration to suppress the vote. Members of Congress and state leaders are starting to take notice because of the […]

Privatization: The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Inequities In Education

Privatization: The School-To-Prison Pipeline And Inequities In Education Above Photo: From Badassteacher.o We must come to terms with the fact that for People of Color, especially Black people, the Promise of Public Education was never realized. As we engage in this fight for Public Education and what it should be for all children, it is imperative […]

Disruptive DeVos and the AFC Push “Personalized” Virtual School Privatization

By John Klyczek Virtual School in a Computerized Box (Part 2) Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen forecasts that “smart learning platforms,” such as stimulus-response adaptive-conditioning computers, will effectively overthrow human teachers. In his book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Technologies Will Change the Way the World Learns, Christensen analyzes how smart-learning technetronics are “disruptive” […]

How Privatization Sparked The Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising

How Privatization Sparked The Massive Oklahoma Teacher Uprising Above Photo: Teachers are staging rolling walkouts and mobilizations across Oklahoma. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images) OKLAHOMA—On April 2, an estimated 30,000 Oklahoma teachers walked out of schools across the state, some traveling hundreds of miles to the capital to protest. This momentum has not stopped: At […]

Saudi Arabia’s “Vision 2030”: Crown Prince Bin Salman’s High-Risk Privatization Plan

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (Analysis) — It’s been nearly two years since Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) unveiled his “Saudi Vision 2030” to reduce the Kingdom’s reliance on oil in hopes of reviving its declining economy. The move was undertaken with the goal of transforming Saudi Arabia into an international investment powerhouse […]

VIDEO: The Privatization of Nuclear War, Towards a World War III Scenario: Michel Chossudovsky

GRTV Report Produced by James Corbett, Featuring Michel Chossuodvsky First published in June 2015. With tensions growing in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, a new generation of nuclear weapons technology is making nuclear warfare a very real prospect. And with very little fanfare, the US is embarking on the privatization of nuclear war under […]

Privatization Is Spooky, Say DC Streetcar Workers

Above Photo: From DC Labor. Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. NOTE: Calling privatization “spooky,” DC Streetcar workers and their community allies on Monday staged a Halloween Rally to call on the D.C. government to cut […]

The Corruption Of Mike Pence And The Privatization Of Infrastructure

Above Photo: Gov. Mike Pence (R) signing Indiana’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” while surrounded by anti-LGBT activists. CREDIT: TWITTER/MICAH CLARK In 2015, then-Gov. Mike Pence made the controversial decision to keep the Indiana Toll Road under the control of a consortium of private corporations, which was represented by a local lobbying firm that had funneled large donations to […]

Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War Held on Hiroshima Day 2003

Ukraine to privatize 890 state-owned companies amidst privatization and corruption scandals

nsnbc : Ukraine slated 890 state-owned companies including many cultural institutions and key export companies for privatization. Ukraine’s Ministry of Economic Development and Trade […]

Video: The Reproduction of Real Life, The Privatization of Politics

Revisiting Public Banks And Worker-Owned Cooperatives

Print Friendly Above Photo: From publicbankinginstitute.org There are a number of reasons to doubt the maxim that capitalism as currently practiced, particularly in its finance capital formulation, fulfils its self-proclaimed mission of guiding investment and resources to the most socially useful or socially desirable ends.  There are anecdotes like these, describing Wall Street’s efforts to pour its […]

Maine Feels the Bern & Votes to Eliminate Superdelegates

Susanne Posel (OC) : If you ask Jim Roosevelt, Massachusetts superdelegate and official for the Democratic National Committee, about the concept of superdelegates, he’ll say that he and his fellows “don’t really have super powers” but they do “serve a purpose… [and] have served the party well.” But voters would say otherwise. Over the weekend, […]

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Cop Arrested After Pulling Gun On Maintenance Worker – Charged With False Imprisonment

An Oakland police officer has been arrested and charged with false imprisonment and brandishing a firearm on a man hired to paint the door to his apartment in February, according to court records – (though the arrest happened in February, the city is only now releasing the information). Officer Matthew Santos graduated from the Oakland […]

WTO Gave Environmentalists A New Reason To Oppose TPP

Print Friendly Above Photo: AJIT SOLANKI/AP. India’s solar panel subsidies go against international trade law, the World Trade Organization ruled. The World Trade Organization is giving some environmentalists a reason to say “I told you so.” On Wednesday, the WTO, the international body that enforces trade law, said that India’s solar power subsidy violated trade rules. The program […]

Armed Oregon Refuge Protester Killed During Arrest

One of several roadblocks and checkpoints established around the Malheur Wildlife Reserve Several leaders of an anti-government protest group have been arrested by FBI and Oregon State Police. One of the protesters was killed. The protest group is armed and calls itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom. On January 2 they seized […]

French teacher who stabbed himself and claimed attack was from a terrorist sent to psychiatric hospital

     A French teacher who falsely claimed he had been stabbed by a man shouting “Islamic State” has been sent to a psychiatric hospital, prosecutors say. The teacher at a school near Paris made the claim on Monday morning before admitting he had made the story up. He was taken into custody but has been […]

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