Privatization | Privatization
Jul.05.2012
A member of the Louisiana House of Representatives who eagerly supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to fund private schools has had an epiphany: Muslim schools might start getting taxpayer money!
Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes...
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Oct.05.2011
Reality shows are, of course, one of the more obvious and current expressions of this: people letting the whole world be voyeurs to their private comings and goings, in the name of personal fame and fattening the bottomline of TV network executives who find the miniscule costs of RealiTV shows too...
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Nov.20.2008
2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to any igenical or sewer system. One sixth of the world population uses water from wells contaminated by human or animal fecal bacteria. About one half of the population of poor countries suffers from contaminated water related deseases. Every six...
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Nov.02.2008
I agree: Plunder takes place in the back and forth dynamic of privatization\ri-nationalization and not only in the forrmer. Very interesting example that of Aerolineas Argentinas, that Italians should look at closely because something quite similar is happening here too with Alitalia. Plunder in...
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Nov.01.2008
The strict connection between privatization and plunder is extensively documented in the book and in a large amount of other literature. Historical examples from South America are incredibly abundant and consistent through its history, colonial and post-colonial. Eduardo Galeano's book, "The...
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Oct.31.2008
The role of privatization in facilitating plunder has been documented for quite a long time in the scholarly literature. Privatization plans have been massive episodes of plunder of the common wealth to the advantage of corporate power, protected for a long time by a quite thick economic ideology....
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