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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to stop the next Carillion - 7 steps to public ownership
Jeremy Corbyn is right - this is a ‘watershed moment’ for the ideology of privatisation that has plagued our public...
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Published in: ourNHSWe saved Lewisham hospital - but its future depends on stopping NHS privatisation
Cameron claims that the NHS is becoming more efficient - and is not being privatised or cut. But doctors know these...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S abuses in South African prison still ignored
Investigations and reports into allegations of widespread human-rights violations at G4S-run Mangaung prison have...
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Published in: openSecurityHow Israeli high-tech firms are outfitting the US-Mexico border
American academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and...
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Published in: openSecurityIncarcerating America
The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming...
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Published in: openSecurityBehind the rise of the private surveillance industry in Central Asia
Multinational companies–including two listed on the NASDAQ–have been quietly providing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThree signs that privatised rail is unsustainable
Railway privatisation has failed. It's time to put the public in charge.
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Published in: ourNHS"Should there be competition in the NHS?"
OurNHS openDemocracy Editor Caroline Molloy debates with Andrew Haldenby, head of the Reform think tank, in a...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy the murder rate in Honduras is twice as high as anywhere else
Honduras' perfect storm of machismo, repression, corruption and impunity make it the murder capital of the world.
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Published in: ourNHSThe wrong medicine
The overwhelming weight of evidence suggests market-based reforms are bad for healthcare, finds the latest report by...
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Published in: openSecurityThe arrest of Cristian Labbé breathes new life into Chile's human rights struggle
New charges indict one of the most ensconced figures on the Chilean right, and a symbol of the enduring impunity for...
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Published in: openSecurityFailure is success: how American intelligence works in the 21st century
Is repeated failure actually the key to the success and endless expansion of the US intelligence community?
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Published in: ourNHSVote Yes for the NHS - independence is the best chance to protect Scotland's NHS
The NHS has become the burning issue of the Scottish Independence Referendum. OurNHS takes a close look, and finds...
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Published in: openSecurityEbola: between public health and private profit
Known to the international community since 1976, why has the world dragged its feet for decades to find a vaccine...
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Published in: openSecurityQuiet legacies and long shadows: the Obama era of counterterrorism in the Sahel-Sahara
Despite the crumbling facade of its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, America is preparing for a new century of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Fourth Branch: the rise of the national security state
Though the US may be finally addressing some of the fictions propping up its security policies, the question...
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Published in: openSecurityA fox whispering in your ear: corporate solutions to climate change
No industry, especially one as powerful as the fossil fuel industry, is going to allow governments or international...
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Published in: ourNHSShould politicians summer reading lists include 'unthinkable' ideas for the NHS?
Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians'...
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Published in: openSecurityCorporate hegemony and the Keystone Pipeline
Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the...
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Published in: ourNHSThe only 'parity' for mental health is that it is being cut and privatised as well
Mental health services are amongst the hardest hit by cuts and privatisation. A new Charter suggests how people can...