Privatization

Beyond Corporate Capitalism: Not So Wild a Dream

Gar Alperovitz | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Public Ownership, Privatization, US Post Office, Private Health Care, Economy Recession, Corporations Privatization, Private Ownership, Politics News
Gar Alperovitz

When progressives are being called "socialists" no matter what, there is little to lose and much to gain by clearly making the case for a long-term plan that confronts -- and ultimately overcomes -- the centrality of corporate power.

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How Phantom Accounting Is Destroying The Post Office

David Morris | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Unified Budget, Privatization, Deficit, Postal Service, Accounting, Mail, Post Office, Usps, Politics News
David Morris

The post office deficit that is driving management to commit institutional suicide by ending six-day delivery, closing half of the nation's post offices and mail-processing centers, and laying off more than 200,000 workers, is make-believe.

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Arizona's Corporate-Run Agency Now Gives Taxpayer Subsidies to Other Corporations

Donald Cohen | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Privatization, Arizona, Corporations, Politics News
Donald Cohen

Arizona's corporate takeover is part of a troubling trend among states that are privatizing their economic development process.

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The Power of WE

Paul Boden | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Affordable Housing, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Social Services, Social Justice, Democrats, Public Housing, Civil Rights, Housing Crisis, Privatization, Homelessness, Policing, Homeless, Housing, Police, Community Organizing, Jail, Republicans, Business Improvement Districts, Federal Government, Public Goods, Corporate Control, Politics News
Paul Boden

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

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Scenes From an Airport Restaurant

Randall Amster | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Sharing, Public Space, Privatization, Airports, Community, Travel, Commons, Technology, Private Space, Public Open Space, Mindfulness, A Public Space, Presence, Unplug and Recharge, Healthy Living News
Randall Amster

The convivial ethics of the picnic table, park bench, bus stop kiosk, and similar exemplars don't exist very much inside the spaces of consumption and conveyance that increasingly dominate our daily lives.

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Fool Us Twice? The Peril of Rahm Emanuel's Public Private Partnerships

Donald Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Privatization, Chicago Parking Meters, Wall Street, Public-Private Partnerships, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Infrastructure Trust Chicago, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago News
Donald Cohen

Chicago knows from experience how partnerships can sour. Emanuel's Infrastructure Trust, if done right, could be a new model for rebuilding urban infrastructure. Done wrong, it'll be just another hand off of public assets to private control.

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Finance Expert Predicts We'll "Rue The Day"

Tom Tresser | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Privatization, Infrastructure Investment, Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Chicago News
Tom Tresser

Chicago City Council voted 41 - 7 with two aldermen absent. Hey, that's two more nay votes than the parking meter scam got. We're making progress.

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Andrea Stone

Ex-TSA Chief Opposes Privatizing Airport Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Tsa, Video, Terrorism, Private Security Contractors, Privatization, John Mica, John Pistole, Airport Security, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Kip Hawley, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Former Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley said Wednesday that privatizing screening at airports -- a pet cause of a...

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We Should Be Wary of the IRS Preparing Our Taxes

Edward J. Black | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: UK, Privatization, Competition, Government, Taxes, Small Business, Irs, Taxpayers, Tax Day, Taxpayer, Politics News
Edward J. Black

If the IRS starts preparing our taxes for us, that right will cease to exist. Even with its flaws, Americans would most certainly prefer our current tax filing system over putting their faith in the IRS to fairly do it for them.

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Killing the Messenger: The Downsizing and Death of the Postal Service

Dean Baker | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Privatization, U.S. Postal Service Cuts, Postal Service Cuts, U.S. Postal Service, Postal Service, Business News
Dean Baker

The goal is to have a public Postal Service that can compete effectively in the market. But it's not a fair fight when we shove it into the ring with its shoes tied together and both hands tied behind its back.

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E-books and the Privatization of the Village Square

Dan Kennedy | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Apple, Dwarfism, E-Books, Amazon, Nook, Little People, Privatization, Technology News
Dan Kennedy

The trouble is that in too many cities and towns, we no longer have a village square except in the form of enclosed spaces owned by profit-seeking corporations. What happened to that protester said a lot more about our privatized idea of community than it does about that one particular incident.

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Chaos and Cholera: Haiti's Message to the Tea Party (and the Rest of Us)

Mark Schuller | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: U.S. Presidential Election, Haiti-Emergency Response, 2012 Republican Primary, Romney, Haiti-Earthquake, Santorum, Obamacare, Republic of Ngos, Haiti, Ngos, Bill Clinton, Neoliberalism, Disaster, Privatization, Cholera, Ngoization, Nongovernmental Organizations, Tea Party, World News
Mark Schuller

This Tuesday, April 10, Rick Santorum, who had given Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney a serious run for his money, bowed out of the race, leaving th...

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Consider Yourself Briefed (On the Trust)

Tom Tresser | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Public Finances, Privatization, Infrastructure, Chicago Infrastructure Trust, Tif, Tifs, Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Infrastructure Trust, Chicago News
Tom Tresser

I will state my bias plainly for all Huffington Post readers. I don't trust The Trust. It's not privatization. It's worse: it's corporatization

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I Ain't No Broken Window

Paul Boden | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Western Regional Advocacy Project, Human Rights, Homelessness, Business, Broken Windows Theory, Civil Rights, James Q Wilson, Ugly Laws, Social Justice, Anti-Okie Laws, Private Security, Civility, Sundown Towns, Jim Crow, Organizing, Privatization, Quality of Life, Business Improvement Districts, Politics News
Paul Boden

These are the civilized people; they are consumers. They are us. The people these laws are enforced against are not us. They are them.

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Don't Trust the Infrastructure Trust

Tom Tresser | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Public-Private-Partnerships, Privatization, 2016 Olympics Bid, Public Financing, Chicago Parking Meter Deal, Chicago Parking Meter Privatization, Chicago, Chicago News
Tom Tresser

Mayor Emanuel wants us to trust him with the future of all of Chicago's public assets.

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Matt Sledge

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Detroit?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Detroit Emergency Manager, Dave Bing, Detroit Financial Advisory Board, Detroit Bankruptcy, Robert Flanders, Detroit Fiscal Crisis, Dave Bing Detroit, Privatization, Central Falls Rhode Island, Detroit Privatization, Central Falls, Detroit News

PHILADELPHIA -- Bankers, consultants and elected officials gathered at a conference here on Wednesday to discuss a hot political question for the form...

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Wayne State Symposium Tackles Corporatization, Privatization, Emergency Managers

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Michael Stampfler, Detroit Emergency Manager, Michigan Emergency Manager, Law in Society, Privatization, Saunteel Jenkins, Wayne State Law School, Hansen Clarke, Michigan in Transition, Detroit News, Corporatization, Wayne State Law, Emergency Manager Law, Damon Keith, Video, Detroit News

Organizers of a Friday event at Wayne State University in Detroit say state lawmakers have responded to the recent wave of economic hardship facing Mi...

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Why World Water Forum "Solutions" Miss the Mark

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Privatization, Public Water, Veolia, Water Justice, World Water Forum, Fame, Forum Alternatif Mondial De L'Eau, Green News
Wenonah Hauter

The time is now for the UN and governments around their world to fulfill their duty and not to delegate it to corporations.

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Matt Sledge

Senate Passes Bipartisan Transportation Bill With Surprising Dig At Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Inhofe Transportation, Jim Inhofe, Jeff Bingaman, James Inhofe, John Boehner, Jim Demint, Reid Transportation Bill, Public-Private Partnerships, Senate Transportation Bill, Senate Transportation, Transportation, Harry Reid Transportation Bill, Toll Roads, Video, Barbara Boxer, Privatization, Harry Reid, Transportation Bill, Boxer Transportation, Politics News

The Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion bipartisan transportation bill in a 74-22 vote Wednesday, handing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signi...

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Business As Government: Capitalizing on Disaster In Post-Earthquake Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Privatization, Foreign Aid, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Human Rights, Haiti Earthquake, Disaster Capitalism, World News
Beverly Bell

The pursuits of foreign firms -- making governance decisions about rebuilding, paving the way for other firms, racking up humanitarian clout -- have been at the expense of Haitians still struggling for basic needs and democratic power.

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The Long Arm of Private Prisons

José Fernando López | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Privatization, Prisons, Drug on Wars, Latin America, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
José Fernando López

I had no idea the role that the "private industry" could play in the prison system and criminal politics in the United States, and it does not seem encouraging to me.

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Mitt Romney's Anti-Social Stance on Social Security

Cliff Schecter | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Social Security, George W. Bush, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Older White Voters, Ann Richards, Social Security Works, Caucuses, Social Security Trust Fund, Primaries, Mike Huckabee, Conservative Political Action Conference, Latino Voters, Privatization, Cpac, Paul Krugman, Bain, Video, Politics News
Cliff Schecter

Mitt Romney, tribune of the people, still doesn't seem to get a simple concept: Social Security is popular. With everybody. And particularly with olde...

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Ron Dicker

CORPORATE WELFARE, NBA-STYLE: In Sacramento, Hocking Parking Spaces to Finance Arena

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Taxes, National Basketball Association, St. Louis Rams, Minnesota, Atlanta Falcons, San Diego, Chicago Parking Meters, Sacramento, Atlanta, Subsidies, Minnesota Vikings, Oakland, San Francisco 49ers, Privatization, Business News, Sports Business News, San Francisco, Sacramento Kings, Nba, Business News

The Sacramento Kings are getting lots of attention in California's capital, but it hasn't been for their play. As of this writing, the Kings sat in la...

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Selling the USA to the Highest Bidder and Paying Off the National Debt

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Privatization, Steven Pearlstein, Money in Politics, National Debt, Superpacs, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

Auction off seats in the House of Representatives, starting with a floor of two billion per seat. Not cheap, but it comes with office space and a staff of a dozen or more young MBAs and Hill-lifers ready to serve the business of America.

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Ten Steps for Radical Revolution USA

Bill Quigley | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Direct Democracy, US Military, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Property Rights, USA, Keystone XL Pipeline, Revolution, Privatization, Decriminalization, Corporate Personhood, Reparations, Impact News
Bill Quigley

If those in government and those in power do not help the people do what is right, people seeking change must together exercise our human rights and bring about these changes directly.

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