Tag: Amazon
How Indigenous peoples won a landmark victory protecting the Amazon from...
The Waorani people of Ecuador won a historic lawsuit to save their homes – and the planet – from destruction.
How New Yorkers stood up to Amazon and won
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
You paid taxes. These corporations didn’t.
About twice as many of the largest U.S. companies reported they didn’t owe taxes in 2018 compared with previous years, a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law, according to a report.
Indigenous peoples go to court to save the Amazon from oil...
Historic lawsuit launched by the Waorani people of Ecuador to save their homes – and our planet – from destruction.
Indigenous organizers halted plans for oil drilling in the Amazon
After months of protest, the government scaled back its plans – at least temporarily.
After raising hourly wages to $15, Amazon-owned Whole Foods reportedly slashed...
"Just about every person on our team has complained about their hours being cut. Some have had to look for other jobs as they can't make ends meet."
Why cities should stop playing Amazon’s game and quit offering companies...
My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.
Amazon’s defeat in NYC galvanizes movement to end billion-dollar corporate welfare
The lawmakers who took down Amazon say their victory is just the beginning of a major fight against tax subsidies for huge companies.
How a failing capitalist system is allowing Amazon to cripple America
In the most extreme form of capitalism taxes do not exist. This is called "anarcho-capitalism." Among all corporations, Amazon may be the leading advocate of this philosophy.
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Pentagon plan reveals standing military force for rapid deployment in US cities
Leaked documents show Trump administration proposal to create a permanent National Guard “quick reaction force” to quell domestic unrest, raising concerns over legality, militarization, and civil liberties.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Current nitrate level EPA deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes, other potential health...
The study said the current level of nitrate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes and other potential health risks.
Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
UK surgeon says Israeli forces using Gaza children as ‘target practice’ as starvation crisis...
A British doctor and major humanitarian groups accuse Israeli soldiers of intentionally targeting children near aid sites, as reports show more than 100 children have died from hunger during Israel’s siege of Gaza.