1.0 link 137199 <![CDATA[The World's First Privatized City]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/avi-lewis/the-worlds-first-privatiz_b_137199.html "American-style capitalism" is having its worst public relations month ever. But as the world questions the excesses of free-market orthodoxy in the wake of financial meltdown, a group of Republican Atlanta suburbs is swimming against the tide.

When the government of the city of Sandy Springs in Georgia decided to bring in a multinational corporation to run all of the city's services - with the exception of police and firefighting - it effectively became the first fully privatized city in the...

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