Top Recruits Refuse to Work for Google or Amazon Over Involvement in Israeli War Crimes

While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporations’ power —  even if only slightly.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum

As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giants’ Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance. Amid Israel’s assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israel’s public sector and its

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Project Nimbus: How Amazon and Google and Amazon Made Billions From Israel’s Occupation

Project Nimbus has ignited a “secretive war” involving top Israeli army generals – all vying for a share in the profit – and whetted the appetite of many other international tech companies.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- “We are anonymous because we fear retaliation.” This sentence was part of a letter signed by 500 Google employees last October, in which they decried their company’s direct support for the Israeli government and military. In their letter, the signatories protested a $1.2 billion contract between Google, Amazon Web Services

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Chris Hedges: America’s New Class War

Organized workers, often defying their timid union leadership, are on the march across the United States.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges Class War Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Lyft, John Deere, Kellogg, the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the Northwest Carpenters Union,

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Media Runs Defense for Amazon After Retail Giant Caught Stealing Millions From Workers

Amazon just got caught stealing millions from its workers, but instead of grilling the retail giant, the media appear to be working hard to run defense for it.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Jeff Bezos Media Feature photo

It has been a turbulent 24 hours for retail giant Amazon. First, the company’s founder (and world’s richest individual) Jeff Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO. Then, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that the company had illegally stolen more than $61 million worth of customer tips meant for its delivery drivers. Under their

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Under Pressure, Amazon Reveals Over 20,000 Employees Likely Contracted COVID

Amazon is not a company known for treating its employees’ welfare as its top priority. Workers feel under so much pressure that they urinate in bottles or wear adult diapers rather than risk the wrath of management.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Amazon augmented reality Feature photo

It announced the figure in the middle of a public relations statement detailing the measures it was taking to try to keep its employees safe from the virus. The company presented itself as a proactive and responsible business. “As part of this commitment, we've decided to publicly share the COVID-19 infection rates among Amazon front-line

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Bezos Doubles Wealth as Amazon Essential Product Prices Rise 1000% Amid Pandemic

A report by Public Citizen found that “Amazon is engaged in price gouging on products it sells directly” through its Amazon Essentials line, with products like facemasks and corn starch seeing elevenfold increases in price.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Amazon price gouging

A new report from advocacy group Public Citizen details how retail giant Amazon “misled the public, law enforcement, and policymakers about price increases during the pandemic,” raising their prices on essential products “to levels that would be considered violations of price gouging laws in many states.” The prices of many products in high demand

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