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Chris Hedges Report: How The Epstein Network Is Privatizing Government

August 6, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. , , , , , ,
Under the radar, the billionaire class is building the infrastructure and models necessary to create a dystopian future in which cities become billionaire fiefdoms - completely privatized, governed by dictatorial CEOs and financed by subservient taxpayers. The buildout of data centers is one essential part of the effort to construct a totalitarian capitalist society, which is already advancing. In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Hedges interviews investigative journalist Whitney Webb, the author of “One Nation Under Blackmail,” who unravels the complex relationships between elected leaders, the National Security State, the state of Israel and Big Tech.

Grassroots Movement Is Resisting Corporate Grab Of Water Systems

August 2, 2026 Francis Madeson, Truthout. , , ,
The road from public ownership of a municipal water system to privatization is a one-way street paved with regret. Once public ownership is lost, it’s a rarity to recover control. Bolingbrook, Illinois, has been trying to for the last 15 years. Missoula, Montana, is one extraordinary success story, but it took sustained public support, political will across administrations, costly decades in the courts, and ultimately hardball tactics like the invocation of eminent domain. In southern Illinois, an ad hoc people’s movement is going after government officials who are trying to smooth-talk residents toward the edge of the privatization bluff.

Which Vets On The Ballot Are Defending VA Care?

July 14, 2026 Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
In this crucial mid-term election year, men and women who served in the military are wooing voters by presenting themselves as tougher, more effective foes of MAGA incumbents and even long-serving Democrats. In Massachusetts, a 50-year old former Marine captain, whose career has inspired other vets to run for office, is playing the vet (and youth) card in his September 1 primary challenge to nearly 80-year -old Senator Ed Markey.           “We can’t just have people who seem like tired old Democrats,” says U.S. Representative Seth Moulton, who is giving up his House seat to challenge Markey. To illustrate his point, Moulton recently did some rhetorical muscle-flexing in May

A Tiny BC Farming Town’s Fight Against Billionaire Speculators

July 13, 2026 Spencer Hall, The Tyee. , , ,
The purchase of dozens of farm properties by two U.S. billionaires has prompted a small B.C. community to call for restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.The beloved annual celebration of Japanese Canadian culture returns to Oppenheimer Park to mark a milestone anniversary. Since 2008, a company co-owned by American billionaires Bobby Patton Jr. and Mark Walter has bought 25 properties in Dunster, an unincorporated community of approximately 240 people located 40 minutes north of Valemount. The properties, which were bought through a company registered in Canada called Fraser River Landholdings Ltd., include 16 homes, almost all of which are now vacant.

Developers Still Working To Take Over N.Y.C. Public Housing

July 3, 2026 Elroy Solondz, People's World. , , ,
New York City—The birthplace of Al Pacino, Patsy’s Pizzeria, and Thomas Jefferson Park, East Harlem—otherwise known as “El Barrio”—was once one of the largest Italian enclaves in the country. Today, the neighborhood is predominantly composed of Puerto Rican, Mexican, and Dominican immigrants. While the demographics of the community have changed, its historic working class-character remains. Recently, however, a new and very different type of neighbor has been knocking at the door. On June 17, proponents of PACT-RAD (Permanent Affordability Commitment Together—Rental Assistance Demonstration), a revised version of the now defunct federal program known as HOPE VI, visited the area.

Protesters Tear Down Albanian Development Site Fences

June 14, 2026 Reuters, Yahoo News. , , ,
Some 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor wire fences surrounding a ‌luxury development site on Albania's Adriatic coast, in another ‌sign of growing anger against construction in environmentally sensitive areas. Albanians have been protesting for ​weeks against a planned luxury resort backed by a company linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, near Vlora, which is famed for its flamingos and a turtle nesting ‌site. On Saturday, villagers from ⁠Rrjoll, located in an area of sandy beaches and pine forests in northwestern Albania, protested against another ⁠project not linked to Kushner, saying it was being built on their confiscated land.

Data Sovereignty, Asset Manager Capitalism, And Privatization Of Economic Governance

June 12, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , ,
The struggle for data sovereignty is often presented as a debate over privacy, cybersecurity, or technological regulation. The stakes are far greater. Data sovereignty concerns ownership of the social commons itself. Every search query, financial transaction, medical appointment, classroom interaction, social media post, photograph, message, and geolocation record contributes to an immense reservoir of information created through ordinary human activity. This information is generated collectively. It emerges from relationships, communities, institutions, labor, culture, and daily life.

Pennsylvanians Are Beating Back A Wave Of Water System Privatization

June 8, 2026 Katie Rose Quandt, Truthout. , , , ,
In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocked the corporate takeover of a public water system in Chester, Pennsylvania. After a nine-year battle, the court ruled that Chester, a town of 33,000 outside Philadelphia, does not have the jurisdiction to sell the local municipal water system to Aqua, a massive company that owns water and sewer systems throughout the state. The ruling came in the wake of major public pushback, with hundreds of residents joining state legislators at public hearings to oppose the sale. Save Chester Water Authority, a grassroots campaign, warned: “In every acquisition it has made, [Aqua] hikes up water bills through rapid-fire rate increases and infrastructure surcharges.”

Trump Kicks Dismantling Of Veterans’ Health Care Into High Gear

June 6, 2026 Russell Lemle and Suzanne Gordon, Substack. , , , , ,
Midway through the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s May 20 hearing on the VA’s advance budget request, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins on his view of the future of veterans’ health care. Every net increase in Collins’s FY2028 advance appropriations request was earmarked for care delivered by private-sector providers. To King, the intention seemed unmistakable: a plan “to gradually privatize VA health care coverage.” Collins’s response was withering in its contempt—for the question and the questioner alike: “There is no intention to gradually, there is no intention to accelerate, there is no intention to decelerate, there is no intention to privatize at all.”

Private Water Company Leaves Thousands Dry Amid Heatwave

May 30, 2026 Cameron Baillie, The Canary. , , ,
One privately-owned water company left thousands of people in south-east England dry and thirsty this week. This comes amid one of Britain’s hottest-ever May heatwaves. South East Water, which covers much of Kent, left over 8,000 people without any tap water. The company claimed that nearby reservoirs at Whitstable were at a “critical level” due to “extremely high demand”. The company’s six-figure CEO David Hinton stepped down from his position in early May over consistent failures, shortages and outages but will remain in-post to allow an orderly transition over the summer period. That and, presumably, to keep earning a slice of his lucrative £457,000 salary a wee bit longer.

The Veterans Administration Is A Model For Public Health Care

May 26, 2026 Suzanne Gordon, Barn Raiser. , , , ,
Bruce Carruthers is a Vietnam veteran who served in the Army and now lives in Waynesville, North Carolina. At age 81, Carruthers could be spending more of his time with his three sons and grandchildren, traveling or focusing on the woodworking projects that he enjoys. Instead, for the last six years, he’s devoted hours each week to stop efforts to privatize the nation’s largest and only publicly funded health care system, run by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Carruthers has a long and deep connection to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). For 30 years, from 1974 to 2002, he worked first in VHA’s Human Resources department and then in hospital administration

This Land Is Not Your Land

May 10, 2026 Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik, People's World. , , ,
Woodie Guthrie wrote the famous song that cried out, “This land is your land, this land is my land, this land was made for you and me.” He did not subscribe to the idea that the air we breathe, the water we drink, the forests, the hills, and the plains we traverse are all here to enrich powerful corporations, billionaires, and people like President Trump and his family.  Trump is moving the business of preserving national forests from Washington, D.C., to Utah. The expectation is that those who would privatize public lands will be better able to rake in profits from the privatization. How dare working people think that public forests and national parks belong to them?

Private Equity Is Taking Over Nursing Homes; Seniors Are Paying The Price

May 8, 2026 Scott Doerr, Scheer Post. , , , ,
As Americans age, we deserve the peace of mind that we can find nursing care for our parents or ourselves when we need it. But for private equity firms, that need isn’t a mission to fulfill — it’s an opportunity to profit at our expense. As private equity takes over more nursing care, studies show higher mortality rates, reduced staffing, and increased costs as a result. But seniors are fighting back. I live in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. For generations, our public nursing home — Pine Crest — has served our seniors. “Pine Crest is there for us when we need it. It’s worked that way for 70 years,” said retired accountant and Pine Crest Nursing Home volunteer Eileen Guthrie.

Veterans Say They Won’t Be Fooled By False Promise Of VA Privatization

April 13, 2026 Suzanne Gordon, Beyond Chron. , , ,
On April Fool’s Day, over a hundred veterans, former VA employees and local healthcare activists met at a Veterans Town Hall in the Veterans’ Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, California.  The meeting was called to alert veterans and the local community to the cost and consequences of “The Tragic Dismantling of the VA.”  A number of veterans groups, like Veterans for Peace, Veterans of Sonoma County and local community members who, for the past year, have spent every Friday rallying in front of the Santa Rosa Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), sponsored the event.

Trump Administration Orders Dismantling Of The US Forest Service

April 10, 2026 Jim Pattiz, Hatch Magazine. , , , ,
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution. They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives.
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