Derailing Amtrak: Tracking the Latest Disaster in the Infrastructure Crisis

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt May 24, 2015 The fatal derailment May 12 did not deter the House Appropriations Committee from slashing Amtrak funding the very next day. Congress could fund its massive infrastructure bill without raising taxes, but the conservative-controlled Congress seems to have other plans for the nation’s profitable public assets. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Reflection of Our Barbarity: Jailing Immigrant Mothers and Babies

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Apr 24, 2015 Private corporations have crafted a business model based on the imprisonment of families seeking asylum. Is that the real reason the U.S. has reverted to an inhumane policy? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

If Privatizing Education Aggravates Inequality, Why Does the World Bank Support It?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 23, 2015 Fifteen years after the international community committed itself to bringing primary education to every boy and girl, 58 million children still lack access to schools, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

British M.D.: Privatization Compromises the Quality of Health Care

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 9, 2015 A year spent working as a doctor in India taught Hannah Fox “how a publicly funded healthcare system creates an optimal environment for ethical decision-making,” especially in end-of-life care. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Mar 27, 2015 The battle over California's limited water supply is pitting the people against the new "water barons" -- Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto and their ilk -- who are buying up water all over the world at an unprecedented pace. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Inept Reforms of the New Ukrainian Westernizers

By Halyna Mokrushyna, Counterpunch Feb 25, 2015 Previous Ukrainian governments did not engage in radical reforms because the population would not easily let the remains of socialism be dismantled. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

British PM Cameron Enabling Wall Street’s Takeover of National Health Service

Staff / Truthdig Jul 19, 2014 The U.K.’s cherished public health service is in danger of being sold off to private corporations via a trade deal that would create a single market between the European Union and the United States and open future British governments to massive lawsuits in international courts should they attempt to reverse the decision. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Air Travel Is Getting More Aggravating and Complicated

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2014 More stratified levels of service, workers who are underpaid and overworked, and a climate that is increasingly hostile to human activity -- the experience of privatized air travel worldwide is rapidly deteriorating. Journalist Scott Smith lists six ways how. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Critics of L.A.’s Anti-Teacher Ruling

BLANK Jun 16, 2014 Michael Hiltzik and Ralph E. Shaffer revealed a court decision for what it is: a money-greased attempt to transfer control over education to the rich. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Diverse Group of Wealthy Elite Funded Attack on L.A. Teachers

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 13, 2014 Republicans, liberals, Hollywood stars and multinational corporate executives are all donating to the effort to strip public schools and teachers in Los Angeles and beyond of the means to perform their work without interference from private interests. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: JoAnn Wypijewski

BLANK May 18, 2014 The Nation magazine journalist asks us to consider whether the internment of hundreds of public school teachers in district gulags is part of the ongoing effort to privatize education.The Nation magazine journalist asks us to consider whether the internment of hundreds of public school teachers in district gulags is part of an ongoing effort to privatize education. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Insider’s Economic Dictionary: P Is for Ponzi

By Michael Hudson Apr 13, 2014 Parasitism: In biology, parasites develop a strategy of gaining control of the host’s brain in order to obtain nourishment by masquerading as its natural progeny or as a part of its body. For economies, the brain in question is the government. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )