One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization

Outsourcing government not only leads to poor services -- it's killing the middle class, an expert tells Salon

As most experts and layman enthusiasts will tell you, there’s no one, single explanation for the past 30-plus years of growing economic inequality. Its drivers are multiple and separating one from the other is often quite complicated. Low taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations, the gutting of labor unions, the increased mobility of capital, technological gains, overly protective intellectual property law; the list goes on.

In fact, here’s another one to add to the list: privatization. According to “ ... Read more »

The Way to Stop Corporate Lawbreaking is to Prosecute the People Who Break the Law

^{General Motors CEO Mary Barra addresses employees at the automaker's vehicle engineering center in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, June 5, 2014. Barra said 15 employees have been fired and five others have been disciplined over the company's failure to disclose a defect with ignition switches that is now linked to at least 13 deaths. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)}

Today General Motors announced that it has fired 15 employees and disciplined five others in th ... Read more »