Fast fashion: from Zara to Shein, the site is more popular than Amazon but with questionable methods
The Chinese company is probably the largest textile operator in the world, but it is also the most damaging, for workers and the environment
‘Where the world goes’ temu, with questionable methods, conquering Europe
The trade war: US and Europe against Temu, Shein and AliExpress (Alibaba)
Francesco Bordese, assistant detergent buyer remembers me, his experience at Esselunga and tells me about Le Ossa dei Caprotti
I will always remember you. Those two years in your team gave me the strength to see far. I have just finished your book.Touching. Thank you for the professional training you have given me and thank you for the new energy you have instilled in me after reading it
Katyn, the suspended memory of a massacre ordered by Stalin and which Putin, his worthy successor, wants to erase
The tragedy of Katyn – where 22,000 Poles (army officers, but also politicians, journalists, professors and industrialists) were slaughtered by the Russians – has practically disappeared from school textbooks in Russia. The confirmation of this policy came with the war against Ukraine. Putin is Stalin’s successor
Gabriele Margheri, about my newsletter
I am simply writing to express my satisfaction in reading your newsletter that I periodically receive. It is always full of interesting and unfamiliar insights, informative, precise and accurate. I have read many times about topics not dealt with elsewhere and therefore very interesting. Thank you, I will continue on this path. For the benefit of attentive consumers and those who read it with interest
Is there a solution for the food we import from countries that use pesticides banned in Europe?
The Mercosur free trade agreement could be an opportunity to try to align the rules between South America and the European Union. Trade unions, such as Coldiretti, should not dissipate their forces on meaningless projects such as the no to ‘cultured meat’ or the production of dried pasta, and focus on reciprocity of import standards
Amazonia: indigenous people against gold mining that brings destruction and violence to their reserves
The other great threat to the Amazon is agribusiness: soya and meat, as the case of Italian-made bresaola, made with animals from Brazil, shows. And the indigenous territories have become akin to war zones. Indigenous people disappointed by Lula
According to Google, Bernardo Caprotti has no children. And the Corriere della sera does not help
For Google, My mother Giorgina Venosta still does not exist and Wikipedia has deleted the page on Guido Venosta, creator of the Italian Association for Cancer Research. The picture is completed by the Corriere della Sera – national edition – which, for example, after deleting me in 2020, is one of the few Italian newspapers not to have reviewed my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti
Lenin, Ukraine and the spectre of Orwell
Putin ‘forgets’ that Ukraine was a historical entity in its own right for more than 1,200 years, when Rus, the first Slavic state, was created in that vast territory stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, bordered by the Dnepr and Dnestr, with Kiev as capital – when St Petersburg and Moscow did not even exist
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’ …
