Workers at Amazon warehouses and distrbution centres have staged protests – over low pay, poor working conditions and climate concerns – across Europe and the USA to coincide with the online retailer’s annual discounted shopping day, Black Friday. Protests have continued to cover Cyber Monday, another crucial sales period for Amazon.
Economics
DeStatis: German recession setting in: Retail turnover in October 2022 decreased by 5% year on year
Retail turnover, October 2022 (provisional, calendar and seasonally adjusted) -2.8% on the previous month (in real terms) -1.7% on the previous month (in nominal terms) -5.0% on the same month a year earlier (in real […]
Geopolitics
Weaponizing Aid: Interview with Lisa Bhungalia on UNRWA
A deep insight in the significance of UNRWA being cut-off from Gaza, by the author of a recent book on aid to Palestine. In Phenomenal World. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Catalan News – Catalonia: Judge dismisses 43 allegations of injuries by police during independence referndum
The judge explained “The use of force is legitimate whenever there is a justification for it and when it is carried out proportionally”. The word proportionally is used differently in nations like Spain, Turkey, and […]
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