We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly,” wrote JP Morgan analysts this week. They were describing the reputation crisis facing Tesla, one of the world’s leading electric vehicle manufacturers. The problem for Tesla is straightforward: their CEO, Elon Musk, has embraced hard-right politics. He has supported the neo-Nazi-friendly AfD party in Germany and even made a gesture that looked an awful lot like a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration. (Nazis were certainly thrilled by it.) Musk has a leading role in a presidential administration that is waging war on the civil service and gutting climate and environmental policies.
Climate Crisis
Climate Home News: EU’s reformed agricultural policy fails its climate goals, say green groups
COP26 a la EU Lawmakers have approved a reform to the Common Agricultural Policy, which critics say fails to deliver on the bloc’s Green Deal and climate goals Read here Maize harvesting at a farm […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Why do we let greedy financiers profit from the pain of foster children?
Privatisation is destroying our society. Once again Aditya Chakrabortty takes a tiny sliver of society and shows how the “free market” is destroying everything it touches, be it people or environment. Profit is all that […]
Geopolitics
BulgarianMilitary.com: Ukraine war exposes flaws in German tanks, old systems triumph
On April 11, 2025, a report surfaced in German media, spotlighted by Bojan Pancevski, the Wall Street Journal’s Chief European Political Correspondent, that raised eyebrows across defense circles. German weapons systems donated to Ukraine, including […]
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