privatization
What Austerity Has done to Care Work and Care Workers: An Interview with Emma Dowling
In this episode I talk to Emma Dowling about her book, The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can...
Public Schools Fray as Pentagon Gets More Pork
More on the sorry state of US public schools and how they got there.
China – A Sub-Imperial Ally of the West?
IMichael Hudson and Patrick Bond debate the trade posture of China, such as whether its Belt and Road initiative is capitalist or socialist
Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by For-Profit Accel Schools
Yves here. It might seem easy to dismiss the child-warehousing-masquerading-as-education perpetrated by Accel Schools as a charter school outlier. But as this article explains, Accel embodies a new trend to profit-maximization and asset stripping in this arena. By Jeff Bryant, a writing fellow and chief correspondent for Our Schools. He is a communications consultant, freelance […]
Guest editorial: Homelessness in Canada
I’ve written the guest editorial for a special edition of the International Journal on Homelessness. The guest editorial provides a general overview of homelessness in Canada (and I believe it serves as a helpful stand-alone reading for practitioners, researchers, students and advocates).
My guest editorial can be found here (in English): https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/article/view/14810/11659
My guest editorial can be found here (in French): https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/article/view/14810/11660
The special edition of the journal can be found here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/issue/view/1370
Guest editorial: Homelessness in Canada
I’ve written the guest editorial for a special edition of the International Journal on Homelessness. The guest editorial provides a general overview of homelessness in Canada (and I believe it serves as a helpful stand-alone reading for practitioners, researchers, students and advocates).
My guest editorial can be found here (in English): https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/article/view/14810/11659
My guest editorial can be found here (in French): https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/article/view/14810/11660
The special edition of the journal can be found here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/ijoh/issue/view/1370
True Facts About Honeybees (and Why “Ecosystem Services” is a B.S. Tell)
DId you know that honeybees fall out of the air when the lights are turned off? I didn't!
The 2022 Alberta budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget.
My overview can be found here: https://monitormag.ca/articles/ten-things-to-know-about-the-recent-alber...
The 2022 Alberta budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget.
My overview can be found here: https://monitormag.ca/articles/ten-things-to-know-about-the-recent-alber...
The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.