On AlterNet: privatization
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "privatization"
Olivier Hoedeman, Orsan Senalp, Corporate Europe Observatory. April 23, 2008.
The water privatization fever is hitting Turkey, just a year before the country will host the World Water Forum.
Emily Udell, In These Times. January 28, 2008.
Is it right that people are trying to make money off taking care of our most vulnerable population?
Tim Shorrock, CorpWatch. January 18, 2008.
Steven Cambone, an advocate of torture who was briefly sought for war crimes by German prosecutors, is raking it in.
Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 3, 2007.
With disaster services being privatized, the rich are buying their way out of catastrophe.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. September 18, 2007.
Bill Clinton has written a new book about charity, a "fitting subject" for a president who betrayed the poor and led his party into the arms of corporate America.
Naomi Klein, Henry Holt. September 14, 2007.
This excerpt from Naomi Klein's controversial new book, "The Shock Doctrine," explains how the U.S. set about to destroy the Iraqi national psyche and then push through a disastrous privatization of its economy.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. September 4, 2007.
Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.
Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine. August 30, 2007.
The dumping of waste and the mining of resources by large corporations are bleeding communities dry.
Christopher Brauchli, The Human Race and Other Sports. August 14, 2007.
Can out-sourced tax collection survive the Democrat-controlled Congress?
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. July 23, 2007.
In these weird times of privatization fever, selling off bridges, toll roads and airports is no longer considered preposterous -- for the billionaires who can afford them it's good business.
