Category Archives: Racism

Child slavery, candies and go-go boots?

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Nestlé, who along with Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey, and Mondelēz was sued for child slavery in the Ivory Coast, announced that they intended to “focus on [the candies’] personalities rather than their gender.” “I … Continue reading →

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Part 3. The matriarch of all revolutions

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Naomi

You thought we were finished? Oh no. Bannon’s revolution is finished — except for the prison sentences. But in the Russian Revolution, the battiness continued. When I left off excerpting Victor Sebestyen’s narrative of the Russian Revolution in his biography … Continue reading →

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As a Jew, I’m beginning to take this stuff personally

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Though avowing “nothing but love for the Jewish people,” the Entrata entrepreneur David Bateman speculated in an email to fellow tech CEOs and businessmen with the subject line “Genocide” that the COVID-19 vaccine is part of … Continue reading →

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