Washington -
NASA’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal will include plans to end funding for the International Space Station in 2025, but leaves open the possibility of handing part or all of the station over to the private sector.
Ottawa -
If the Harper government had tried to privatize Canadian airports there would be a huge outcry from the Liberals and no doubt the New Democratic Party (NDP) as well, but now it seems the Liberals are seriously considering doing so.
Regina -
The Saskatchewan government plans to privatize 60% of a Crown corporation, the Information Services Corporation (ISC). The government would retain the other 40%.
San Francisco -
In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park the trend of "privatizing" taxpayer-funded public resources by turning management of them over to private companies was recently confronted by the ghost of an older movement.
The end of the Cold War spelled the termination of many an illustrious career in the military and the secret services - as well as the destabilization and disintegration of many states.
On May 11 the US Post Office is raising the price of stamps by 2¢. Even in the face of increasing prices, many people will argue that the Post Office is necessary because a private organization could never perform these functions for a similar cost.
In spite of the global financial crisis that is forcing investors to cash in their chips the government of South Korea is looking to attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) through a sale of private sector shares and public assets.
China is taking steps to secure state assets, and “maintain the basics of the country’s economic structure” according to Xinhua. The current ideology is that socialism governs, but private equity is now an acknowledged factor in the economy.
As you can see from the map, Native Americans were driven West after Europeans came to these shores. Now, just two percent of the land is relegated to the tribes.
U.S. Department of the Interior/NPS
Trump advisors suggest it would be a great idea to privatize oil and gas-rich reservations lands.
Clean Air Council
Ed Dunn, executive director of the HANC recycling center, negotiates terms of the Human Be-in with another organizer and SFPD officers on September, 14, 2012.
Peter Masek, Andrew Wong, Samsun Van Loon and Charith Premawardhana of the group Classical Revolution perform Mozart and Dvorak at the HANC recycling center in Golden Gate Park.
Walter Briscoe, a.k.a. "the Briscoe Kid" with his friends (l to r) Queen Sheba Diva, Mr. Buster Hunter and Hansome The Lion King were on their usual walk across the park when they stumbled across the Human Be-in on September 15, 2012. "There's lots of people here. Usually me and my dogs are the only ones here. It's really quiet and all you hear is birds and the wind."
