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Category Archives: Privatization
Neo-Liberalism and the Retreat of Democracy
By David Schultz Source: CounterPunch Democracy across the world is under siege. This according to the latest Freedom House report documenting that for 2017, “democracy faced its most serous crisis in decades” as seventy-one countries experienced declines in freedom or … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, society
Tagged austerity, Colonialism, Corporate Globalization, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, Free Trade, Freedom House, Neoliberalism, Working Class
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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America’s Dystopian Future
By Robert Hunziker Source: CounterPunch Imagine a privatized America where rugged individualism reigns supreme within a vast network of corporate America, Inc., similar to 19th century wild west lifestyle, no social security, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no public law enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, American History, austerity, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Free Market, imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Neoliberalism, P, Poverty, privatization, Scott Erickson, the history of the decline and fall of america
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A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Drug War, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Dystopia, elites, Jeff Sessions, Law Enforcement, Mass Incarceration, Militarism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, police state, Poverty, Prisons, Private Prisons
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Jesus Was Born in a Police State
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Jesus is too much for us. The church’s later treatment of the gospels is one long effort to rescue Jesus from ‘extremism.’”—author Gary Wills, What Jesus Meant The Christmas narrative of a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, conditioning, culture, Dystopia, education, Empire, Health, History, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Spirituality, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged Albert Camus, Authoritarianism, Bethlehem, Christianity, Christmas, conditioning, Education, empire, fascism, Government, Immigrants, Jesus, Philosophy, police state, Roman Empire, society, spirituality, surveillance, surveillance state
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Zucktown, USA
Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age By Julianne Tveten Source: The Baffler EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SILICON VALLEY, a phalanx of six-figure-earning Facebook engineers confronted Mark Zuckerberg about subsidizing their extortionate rents. Meanwhile, the contract … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon Google, big data, Company Towns, Dystopia, Facebook, Housing, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, panopticon, Plutocracy, Tech Industry, Technocracy
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Racket of Rackets
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds If you thought banking in our time was a miserable racket — which it is, of course, and by “racket” I mean a criminal enterprise — then so-called health care has it … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, news, Privatization, society, State Crime
Tagged Donald Trump, Economics, Health Care, Insurance Industry, Medicine, obamacare, Pecora Commission, Racketeering, Single Payer System, Universal Healthcare
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Five Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country
By Nathan Wellman Source: U.S. Uncut The United States of America is possibly the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. However, many third-world countries actually surpass America in many of the most vital gauges for measuring human development. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Law, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged America, criminal justice system, economic inequality, financial crisis, Gun Violence, healthcare, income gap, Infrastructure, law, Mass Incarceration, Medical Insurance, Poverty, Public Transit, recession, Sewage System, Third World Country, United States, Water Supply, Wealth Disparity
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