For-Profit Charter Schools Provide an Entryway for Private Investors to Exploit Public Education
An in-depth study of how investors in charter schools loot the businesses, and students predictably lose out.
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Direct Contracting Entities: The Latest Scam to Privatize Medicare
Direct Contracting Entities are another scam from the usual suspects. Please sign the petition at the end
Read more...Patent Buyouts Can Help Win the Race Against Coronavirus Mutations
Instead of merely obtaining the surplus vaccines of rich countries, and relying on unpredictable donations, the existing Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access initiative should acquire the most promising vaccine patents and offer free production licenses.
Read more...Links 9/27/2021
Michael Hudson on Renegade Inc.: China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
Michael Hudson discusses China’s campaign to limit the influence of Western investors.
Read more...Nick Turse: Remembering America’s Civilian War Dead
Time for the US to take a hard look at the magnitude of civilan deaths incurred as a by-product of our Middle East nation-breaking.
Read more...Jackpot Readiness: The (Literal) Pressure Cooker
A potted history of the pressure cooker, and the values immanent within the technology.
Read more...Links 9/26/2021
When McDonalds Came to Denmark
How Danish workers got McDonalds to comply with local labor practices, including high wages.
Read more...Federal Police Reform Talks Have Failed – But Local Efforts Stand a Better Chance of Success
Federal police reform was unlikely to go anywhere, but what might succeed?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/24/2021
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Read more...It Isn’t Over When The Fat Lady Sings – The First Russian Strategic Assessment of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) Submarine Deal
A look at the AUKUS deal in light of Chinese and Russian submarine capabilities.
Read more...HSBC Bet the Bank on China, Now It’s Paying the Price
The UK’s biggest bank is exposed to Evergrande and the Chinese real estate market. It’s also trapped in the middle of an escalating economic war between the world’s two superpowers.
Read more...Links 9/24/2021
“Yes, AOC’s Dress Was Performative Politics, But She Got Her Point Across”
Did the controversy around AOC’s “Tax the Rich” dress advance the cause of reducing inequality?
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