Colin Todhunter Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up Jet.com. This was followed in 2018 with a US$16 billion take-over of India’s largest online retail platform, Flipkart. Today, Walmart …
Nike's attempt to prove they care about the poor (screenshot from this ad).
J.D. is running to represent a huge, mostly rural Iowa congressional district currently held by the most bigoted and far right Republican in the House, Steve King. But J.D.'s campaign isn't just about a referendum on King. He's far more concerned about offering voters a positive platform they can relate to.
I’ve always seen Elizabeth Warren as a future U.S. president-- one term (or two terms) as Bernie’s VP, two terms as president after that… 12 or 16 years of the fundamental transformational change Status Quo Joe, Bloomberg, Mayo Pete, the Democratic Party establishment and the GOP are so desperate to prevent. Meanwhile, she’s been acting as Bernie’s loyal wing-man in debates and out on the campaign trail.
Yesterday I opened a package that arrived at my doorstep and found an old friend's new book, Goliath-- The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power And Democracy. This is the book that Thomas Frank called "the secret history of economic democracy in America. 'Secret' because it's still a story that will trouble everyone: conservatives, liberals, Silicon Valley and Big Oil." Yep... that's Matt Stoller...
Russia may have paid to get them in office, but China seems to be getting the most out of itDuring Wednesday’s debate, the candidates were all asked to name the biggest single national security threat to the country. Few of them had the self-discipline to name just one, but almost all of then named China.
