Why Are Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos So Interested in Space?
There are good reasons to be leery of billionaires colonizing a public sector activity like space exploration.
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PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose
A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
Read more...Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia
Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...Reforestation as a Solution for Carbon Capture: Hype and Reality
Advocates for reforestation must consider who owns the land to be reforested, and how the reforestation is to be done.
Read more...Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...Private Equity and “Institutional” Investor Owned U.K. Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion, Caused “Catastrophic” Environmental Damage
Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: A (Non-)Progress Report
Plus ça change….
Read more...Public-Private Partnerships Fad Fails
After the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains.
Read more...The Federal Government Has Poured Millions into Failing Charter Schools in Louisiana
Another fiasco: charter schools in Louisiana.
Read more...“It’s Not Just Barclays – Tackling Climate Change Means Building a New Bank System”
A discussion of using bank lending as a way to tackle climate change.
Read more...Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them
Why some liberals are coling on charter schools.
Read more...Has Privatization Benefitted the Public?
To ensure public acceptability, some benefits accrue to many in the early stages of privatization in order to minimize public resistance. However, in the longer term, privatization tends to enrich a few but typically fails to deliver on its ostensible aims.
Read more...Outsourcing Giant Interserve with 65,000 Employees Collapses
Another UK outsourcing implosion in just over a year….what gives?
Read more...A Study in Professional Power: Why Do the Big 4 Accountants Survive?
How the Big 4 accountants cemented their position and why that matters.
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