#Corporations

Nick Dearden

nickdearden75

Global South countries tell the WTO: we must suspend trade rules on patents if we’re to deal with #COVID19. Rich countries reply: ‘no, no, you’ll be totally fine, don’t worry’.

Fuck Around and Find Out Duke 🏴🚩🏴‍☠️

TheLatteDog

You wanna know the why some companies are, supposedly, more left-leaning than others? Well, let me tell you about the difference between a finance capitalist and a domestic capitalist. A

Big Labor Norm-Shatterer

UnionSaltBae

Funny how calls for nonprofit transparency tend to target organizations that are BIPOC-led and/or doing revolutionary and transformative work. Thread: 1/https://twitter.com/mnfreedomfund/status/1272888415508402179 Yesterday, The National Ne

Ingrid M

iMusing

remember when press gallery journos spent the election campaign saying the Morrison government has no agenda? No climate policy? That was convenient cover for the Morrison government agenda of promoting

rui tavares

ruitavares

“Neither a fascist nor a communist”. https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1353070957728944132 Whether one can call Salazar’s regime *stricto sensu* or *lato sensu* fascist is an open-ended question and I’m not here to solve it.

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

The neoliberal insistence on giving tax $ to corporations for investment in private enterprise instead of providing direct relief to the working class is about adhering to an ideology, not

Ben Kesslen

benkesslen

In the town where RuPaul fracks, Covid-19 is out of control. Unemployment and food bank demand is up, and contract tracers are overwhelmed. It's a portrait of what Wyoming is

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

PG&E's transmission lines sparked major wildfires in California last year. Utility plans to cut power for few million ppl during windy days this season. Weeklong blackouts. Multiple times. Microgrids bloom

Bloomberg Economics

economics

In the battle against Covid-19, governments around the globe are on the cusp of becoming more indebted than at any point in modern history, surpassing even World War II (THREAD)

Âbdallāh

irenicpoet

Something interesting I’ve been coming across in my labor history studies from an Islamic context: wages seemed to have been specifically for those under contracts of indentured servitude (which people

David Dayen

ddayen

This could be a chapter of my book Monopolized, I swear.So if you look at this map it may confuse you to see that the top state in terms of

Anonymous Snark

AnonSnark

LONG THREAD 01/ What I would have done differently. I will start from the Bush era because that’s when I really started paying attentiona)investigated and impeached the Bush adminb)investigated fox

mmatigari

matigary

Thread: Land Reforms 1/ The term BANANA REPUBLIC was popularized locally by @ProfJNMoyo as minister of info from 2000-4. Moyo’s refrain was “Zimbabwe is not a banana republic.”I agree

Elan Ruskin

despair

This seems a fun time to talk about one of my favorite literary subjects - the origins of cyberpunk, how its visual aesthetic began in Fascist and Soviet art, and

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I understand the arguments for keeping schools open. But why are we pretending that the measures required to make them safe have been taken?That school staff won't die?That outbreaks in

OpenSecrets.org

OpenSecretsDC

It has been 11 years since "Citizens United" - when SCOTUS ruled the longstanding prohibition on independent expenditures by corporations violated the 1st Amendment.Last year, on the decision's 10th anniversary,

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