Articles by Scott Thill

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Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab
Scott Thill - AlterNet, 8 Nov 2010

Even though water privatization has been a massive failure around the world, the World Bank just quietly gave $139 million to its latest corporate buddy.

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Google & Verizon’s Evil Plan Is Really Bad News for Regular Internet Users
Scott Thill - AlterNet, 30 Aug 2010

. “Just consider the power and public role of firms like Verizon or Google (especially if they work together). Sitting atop the web, they can influence what firms succeed or fail — by making sites load faster or slower, or end up on page 10 of search results. It goes further — in subtle ways, the information carriers have the power to influence elections and even censor speech they don’t like.”

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