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.
EU politics
Gary Younge – What Black America Means to Europe
From the vantage point of a continent that both resents and covets American power, and is in no position to do anything about it, African-Americans represent to many Europeans a redemptive force: the living proof […]
Economics
Larry Elliot: Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets
Larry Elliot´s analysis is somewhat short-sighted. The mainstream media played a crucial role in keeping many critical voices and opinions out the discourse. We see this daily as the newspaper where Elliot writes, the Guardian. […]
Fake News
Tom Mills and Dan Hind: Public Ownership of the Public Sphere
Two quotes from long ago sum up the current situation in the Media: A. J. Liebling wrote „Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one”; and Hannen Swaffer claimed “Freedom of […]
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