How the big US retailers – Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Amazon – are influencing and reacting in the face of the storm of Donald Trump’s tariffs
The political role, procurement and supply chain issues and the ‘Donald Trump v. Amazon’ case
Shein’s European entity records 68% sales growth in 2023
Sales of Shein’s European entity reached EUR 7.684 billion in 2023. Profit after tax more than doubled to EUR 99.5 million. Unfortunately, the Chinese exploited Europe’s divisions but the IPO in London seems to be fading because of Trump’s tariffs
The truth about Crimea that does not appear in the news
In 2014, armed men without insignia took control of the peninsula, hoisted the Russian flag and organised a fake referendum, where ‘95.5% of the voters’ would choose annexation.
Many opponents were arrested, beaten and subjected to violence: ‘They were tortured, degraded, beaten, forced to sing the Russian anthem with extinguished cigarettes on their bodies’ …
Russia is now a war economy, that’s why Putin will never sign peace
Trump repeats Obama’s mistake: on Ukraine he seeks an impossible deal, the Kremlin does not want it
Sicilian versus Californian almonds, an ocean of differences
All food is not equal, for our health and the environment, and this article proves it
‘Nobody expected to come back’: a former soldier reveals the dark reality of North Korean troops in Russia
“North Korea does not want a single soldier to return alive from the battlefield. The leadership will think that the returning soldiers are not useful for maintaining the regime as they might tell others the truth about what they experienced, which would raise negativity about the regime’
The Encyclical ‘Laudato Sì’, the climate and the price of food
Pope Francis: “There is a very consistent scientific consensus that we are in the presence of a worrying warming of the climate system. Climate change, with Covid- 19 and wars, has contributed to the inflationary drive suffered especially by the poorest
The best pasta on sale in the supermarket in 2023 according to Altroconsumo
The Best of the Test label goes to Barilla’s bronze spaghetti in the 400 gram packet. Also on the podium is Italiamo pasta, sold in LIDL supermarkets. For them second place ahead of Armando Lo Spaghetto. The palm for Best Purchase goes instead to the penne rigate of Sgambaro Pio. At the back we find Carrefour’s Classic spaghetti, Conad’s bronze-drawn penne rigate and spaghetti from the brand Le Stagioni d’Italia.
A criminal association against the Holy See
The Vatican’s fraud against Pope Francis. And Cardinal Becciu, who was ousted by the pope, is trying to influence the election of his successor
Pfas: Europe reverses bans
DuPont and 3M have known for decades that Pfas, used for example in the production of Teflon, are hazardous to health
Russia: the majority of western companies remained
In 2022 it seemed that many companies wanted to leave Russia. Two years later it seems that Russia, as with wheat, is winning the economic war with the West
Russia’s expansion in Africa does not stop after defeat in Syria while Donald Trump’s US loses ground
With a few rare exceptions, as of August 2024, almost every African state had a contract to supply Russian arms. And taking aid away from moderate states like Kenya or that are in a terrible civil war like Sudan not only does not honour Trump because it will cause so many people to die and create misery and Islamic extremism
