Delhi In India under the antidemocratic, “no news, but good news”, reign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the old saw about two things you can’t escape, death and taxes, has been combined into one thing when the façade of taxes is being used to kill international nonprofits that the government views as …
Category: Politics
Amazon’s Growing Force in India
Delhi Amazon has gotten very big in India. Walmart, our longtime nemesis, through its purchase of Flipcart, has joined Amazon in a fierce competition to dominate e-commerce in the country. In a partnership with UNI, the global labor federation, and the nascent Amazon India Workers Association, ACORN and its affiliate, Janaphal, have been supporting …
Lies, Videotape, and Tucker Carlson
New Orleans It’s one thing for Fox’s Tucker Carlson to make a deal with the devil, my soul for higher viewer numbers, but it’s another thing for the rest of us to have to live with the blowback from all of his lying ways. I can honestly say that I’ve never listened to one-minute …