Sunday, May 25, 2014

Truest statement of the week II

Earlier this month President Obama visited a Bay Area Wal-Mart to praise the world's largest and most anti-union retailer for its supposed environmental responsibility. The fact is that Wal-Mart's maintenance of diesel-fueled supply chains between its stores and wherever on the planet wages are lowest and environmental restrictions are totally absent make it a major ongoing contributor to runaway climate change. The president's appearance therefore, was simply a hypocritical exercise in greenwashing for Wal-Mart.


-- Bruce Dixon, "Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart" (Black Agenda Report).




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