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...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...US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Dying – Now We Must Replace It
From taming Big Tech to competing with China, Western governments are retreatig from neoliberalism. But what comes next?
Read more...Conspiracy Theories Aside, There Is Something Fishy About the Great Reset
The Great Reset is a planned corporate takeover of global governance that affects our food, our data and our vaccines.
Read more...US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses Financialization, Rentierism, and Other Favorite Topics with Jessi Ora of Swedish Positiva Pengar Group
Michael Hudson gives another wide-ranging, tour de force interview. Enjoy!
Read more...New York City Subway Flooding Demonstrates Transit System Vulnerability to Climate Change
More frequent and severe New York City subway floods demonstrate how climate change is crippling critical infrastructure.
Read more...U.S. Southwest, Already Parched, Sees ‘Virtual Water’ Drain Abroad
As the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis.
Read more...I Spent a Year and a Half at a ‘No-Excuses’ Charter School – This Is What I Saw
A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
Read more...The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.
Read more...Pricey Learning Pods Are Now Helping Vulnerable Students. Will the Trend Survive the Pandemic?
A case study of the “innovation” of learning pods, and why they are being promoted as an alternative to remote instruction.
Read more...Incomplete and Indecisive USPS Board Flounders and Awaits Direction
Despite Biden moving to fill open USPS board seats, don’t get your hopes up.
Read more...Postal Service Saboteur Louis DeJoy Is Making Biden And Congress Look Impotent – Or Worse
Louis DeJoy deserves a special place in hell…although a permanent MOF audit might be an adequate punishment.
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