As millions of Americans file their taxes, here's a reminder that the world's largest meatpacker has dodged taxes for years. Research conducted by @somoamsterdam.bsky.social estimates the meat giant, JBS, has avoided paying up to $442 million in taxes between 2019 and 2022.

ENI has filed another SLAPP lawsuit against the organisation @recommon.org in a desperate attempt to silence them. Multinational companies are intensifying their attacks during these chaotic times to silence and threaten organisations. This is beyond disgraceful!!

Which corporations will have to comply with the CSDDD following Omnibus I? 📢 The updated SOMO CSDDD Datahub is out today and reveals: - the 1,450 corporate groups covered by the CSDDD - the companies meeting the thresholds - their sectors - their HQ countries (1/2)

REVEALED: how Britain is shielding big oil’s Iran war windfall: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... - by me

"De fossiele industrie laat, ook dit keer weer, geen enkele wereldcrisis onbenut" Opinie-artikel van Jacqueline Persson (@oxfamnovib.bsky.social) en @vincentkiezebrink.bsky.social (@somoamsterdam.bsky.social). www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Worst of times, best of times. Looming fertilizer shortages push the world into a new hunger crisis. But for the concentrated fertilizer market the war on Iran is an extraordinary profit opportunity. Stocks are shooting up.

I do not see how European democracies can survive being complicit in the war on Iran plus the escalation of the cost of living crisis this war causes. This is the perfect storm to bring the far right into power.

We are now facing the biggest ever market disruption in the most systemically significant price of all. Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Link to research on systemically significant prices: academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says most white-collar work "will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.” If that’s true, it’s an economic earthquake. We need a moratorium on new AI data centers to make sure AI works for workers, not just billionaires.

🛢️Fossil fuel industry: Gigantic profits 💸Damage they cause? We all pay the bill 💡Solution: Let’s tax big polluters’ profits ➡️Our new study shows taxing fossil profits would not raise consumer prices. Instead, it would reduce shareholder returns, incentivising gradual move of capital to renewables.

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Today's UN tax talks are the EU's last chance to defend its tax rights against Trump. The bloc's €14BN annual loss to tax cheating US firms is equivalent to handing over €30 for every person living in the EU to US firms a year. bit.ly/49SlGID #UNTaxConvention #TaxJustice

A Labour government official at the height of the global financial crisis advising a US Big bank how to aggressively attack that same Labour government, via a convicted pedofile.

Zoek de verschillen.

Allowing elites and corporations to fund political campaigns means they install political leaders who shape policy to their benefit. It is institutionalised political corruption, there's no other way to describe it. Democracy cannot function under these conditions.

If this tantrum doesnt move conservative European minds towards further integration, I dont know what will

A poll found that three-quarters of Americans do not want the U.S. to take control of Greenland and felt skeptical of Trump’s use of military force overseas. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Trump on not holding the midterm elections. “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election”. www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

On Iran, they tell us they "support the protestors". But of course they violently brutalize protestors at home, and never support protests against the governments of their often brutal client states.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

WSJ: “.. officials have had preliminary discussions about how to carry out an attack on Iran if needed to follow through on Trump’s threats, including what sites might be targeted, U.S. officials said.” @wsj.com #Iran www.wsj.com/world/middle...

ICE has awarded a contract to Constellis Holdings, the successor to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater. The contract is for "skip tracing" to hunt down 1.5 million immigrants—and offering bounties for their locations. Using whatever surveillance tools they want—no badges, no oversight.

If you're in Europe and just waking up, here are the 60+ bodies - around half of them under the UN umbrella - from which the US has withdrawn

Trump says X & others disagree Typical false balance — as if (with all the evidence available to us) both sides have equal weight Trump and his regime are clearly lying. Report the truth "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

Three issues of concern: 1. How the US is behaving 2. How other leaders are reacting. 3. How media are portraying. If 1 was terrible but 2 and 3 were robust ... This example of media coverage of the US’s “Greenland plans” struck me

They murdered her and now they’re smearing her.

When it comes to the U.S. ranking as an economic power, Trump can proudly boast that we're #3 cepr.net/publications... China is likely to be almost 50% larger by the end of Trump's term.

BBC bosses slammed for ordering journalists to deny Maduro was 'kidnapped'. Trump himself has said kidnapping isn’t a bad term for the US’s capture of Maduro and his wife. Linguistic games are part of appeasement all round.

Good move. But if Trump can do this why not Starmer? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Donald Trump moves to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes

im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man

The world capitulates. 150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax. They make profit we fund the cost. The race to the bottom will accelerate.

The OECD has today announced that it is gutting its global minimum tax in order to exempt US multinationals - locking in the billions in lost revenues that we all suffer from their tax abuse. Our politicians have bent the knee to Donald Trump, & we will all pay for it taxjustice.net/press/oecd-c...

Trump is so far beyond pathetic. I was half joking in telling people jealousy over the Nobel Peace Prize was the reason Trump passed over Machado, but it turns out that it was more than joke. What a goddamn buffoon we have in the White House, and all the Republicans have to bow down to him.

Big money from Wall Street planning travels to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

I trust that the leaders in Japan and South Korea are moving quickly to make deals with China right now. Only a fool would rely on Trump to defend them.

I'm just an economist but what kind of regime change strategy is this where US kidnaps the president but leaves the other power structures of Madurismo intact?

Q: Is it possible that the US ends up administering Venezuela for years? TRUMP: Well, you know, it won't cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

And there it is:

China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice. The UK is following the US model. Wealth concentrated in fewer hands. 24m can't attain minimum standard of living, real average wage unchanged since 2008, public services eroded, profiteering is rife.

JUST IN: #G20 landmark report on global inequality The experts call for: ➡️Pro-worker regulation ➡️Less corporate concentration ➡️Fair taxation of the ultra-wealthy ➡️Investment in public services There is a very long way to go for the EU's course-correction. #TaxTheSuperRich #JustTransitionNow

⏱️We're counting how much tax we missed out on since #COP30 & #UNtaxConvention negotiations started. A #WealthTax & ending multinational's tax abuse can cover most countries’ #ClimateFinance costs, & leave most w/ billions to spare for public services taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...