Tag: Amazon
How bad public policy happens
Sometimes public policy inadvertently turns bad, but when it's based on ignorance and arrogance, policy inevitably goes bad.
Amazon’s tax avoidance has the company sheltering profits
The online retail giant has been sheltering most of its profits from the United State's tax system.
This CEO wants a key to your house
Jeff Bezos expects you to pay for the privilege of letting Amazon employees enter your home when you're not there.
The great Scamazon
Instead of giving your hard-earned dollars to Amazon this holiday season consider staying local.
Why does Amazon get corporate welfare?
Not satisfied with just taking your money, Amazon is coming after your tax dollars as well.
Land taken from freed slave’s descendants for Amazon data center?
It’s time to ask ourselves what kind of country takes property purchased by a freed slave to enrich a corporation.
Oil giants admit potential spill could have 30% chance of hitting...
The region is home to species that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.
Amazon buys out Whole Foods Market
The Brave New Future of Amazon's electronic, robotic Whole Foods Market tells us we're living in the corporatized version of "1984."
World’s richest launch $1 billion fund to fight climate change, invest...
This week, a group of top tech executives from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and more will reportedly meet with the president-elect.
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Judge blocks Trump policy of fining immigrants up to $1.8 million after deportation orders
The Boston ruling halts penalties of $998 a day that DHS says it has assessed in more than 103,000 cases, after finding the forms lacked individual allegations
America’s Archvillain, And His Arch of Tr(i)ump(h)
Tom Engelhardt on the 250-foot triumphal arch Trump plans to build in Washington, D.C.
States take on 75 percent of SNAP administrative costs as federal share drops to...
Forty states have appropriated money for the shift, while New York and North Carolina passed the costs to counties and Arkansas and New Hampshire declined
Nearly 4,000 Brigham nurses set open-ended strike for Oct. 14, the largest in Massachusetts...
Mass General Brigham says it has contracted 1,300 temporary nurses, while the union says the system conditioned further talks on a multi-year pay freeze
No, Mr. Trump, Iran can’t “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego
US intelligence agencies have assessed for 25 years that Iran has no military nuclear weapons program, and Iran has no intercontinental ballistic missile, writes Juan Cole.