Home » Top » Lies & hype around the Kirk assassination Let’s first make it clear who the perpetrators of violence are. In the first half of September: The U.S.-armed Israelis killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians daily, adding to the total of tens of thousands of children murdered during 23 months of genocide. Warplanes bomb…
On August 1, President Donald Trump fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cause for discipline was a less-than-optimistic jobs report that Trump claimed was “rigged.” The report was based on actual statistics using the methodology the BLS has employed since its inception regardless of who occupied the White House.…
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — “We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…
It has been a turbulent 24 hours for retail giant Amazon. First, the company’s founder (and world’s richest individual) Jeff Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO. Then, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that the company had illegally stolen more than $61 million worth of customer tips meant for its delivery drivers.…
It announced the figure in the middle of a public relations statement detailing the measures it was taking to try to keep its employees safe from the virus. The company presented itself as a proactive and responsible business. “As part of this commitment, we’ve decided to publicly share the COVID-19 infection rates among Amazon front-line…
A new report from advocacy group Public Citizen details how retail giant Amazon “misled the public, law enforcement, and policymakers about price increases during the pandemic,” raising their prices on essential products “to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states.” The prices of many products in high demand during the…
The much-anticipated antitrust hearing originally scheduled for Monday, July 27 has been moved to Wednesday for the ostensible purpose of allowing members of Congress to pay their respects to recently deceased Rep. John Lewis. The hearing, which is to feature the testimony of big tech CEOs Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai…
Should you be one of the dozens of people working minimum ten-hour shifts at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Kent, Washington these days, you might very well be at the vanguard of the “new normal” for American blue collar workplaces. The 1 million-square-foot facility located about 20 miles south of Seattle is the site of a new…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s first centibillionaire, a man who vies with Bill Gates for the title of the planet’s richest individual, is asking the public for donations to provide basic support to his 800,000 employees who are suffering in poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bezos announced: “We are establishing the…
As deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reaches the highest level in a decade, the rainforest’s indigenous peoples and their supporters have called for action against the political and business interests they blame for a spike in illegal logging and other resource extraction. A report released by Amazon Watch as part of its ongoing “Complicity in…
SEATTLE — Amazon is lobbying the public with proposed guidelines for lawmakers to adopt when crafting legislation around the use of facial-recognition technology. Amazon’s own software, Rekognition, has been put to the test by rights groups such as the ACLU, who have come to troubling conclusions about racial bias and threats to civil liberties. The…
In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. In our next installments, we will continue exploring the rise of Surveillance Capitalism and the implications of…
Home » Top » Lies & hype around the Kirk assassination Let’s first make it clear who the perpetrators of violence are. In the first half of September: The U.S.-armed Israelis killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians daily, adding to the total of tens of thousands of children murdered during 23 months of genocide. Warplanes bomb…
On August 1, President Donald Trump fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cause for discipline was a less-than-optimistic jobs report that Trump claimed was “rigged.” The report was based on actual statistics using the methodology the BLS has employed since its inception regardless of who occupied the White House.…
On September 10, gunfire opened on a college campus. What made this different from a regular day on U.S. soil is that this was not a mass shooting. One single shot rang out, and instead of hitting a student, it hit the speaker for the event being held, white supremacist podcaster Charlie Kirk, quickly killing…
What is the function of the Zionist movement? Let’s start with four statements that together define what the Zionist movement does by adding its functions cumulatively. The Zionist movement creates and sustains the “Israel lobby” to extend its ideological and political reach, shaping both foreign and domestic policy in the countries where it operates. It…
