cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2859765
So far, I’ve only heard of nation-states committing atrocities whose gov’t officials end up in the Hague…
How about companies, whose CEOs and stockholders have a role in committing such large scale crimes who deserve the wall?
Edit: Bonus points if you include a death toll…
From what I’ve read on wikipedia’s Nestle
In a 2018 study, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) estimated that 10,870,000 infants had died between 1960 and 2015 as a result of Nestlé baby formula used by “mothers in [low and middle-income countries] without clean water sources”, with deaths peaking at 212,000 in 1981.[47]
East India Company and slave trade
Coca Cola and death squads
Chiquita and South America
All Fortune 500 companies and all developing nations
East India Company
doesn’t exist anymore. those royal patent brands that sell luxury bs are just bored millionaires buying a brandname
IBM’s adding machines were used to organize the holocaust.
They also provided support, it wasn’t just their machines.
Edit: support in integrating files from the Netherlands into the German file system or something. I forgot the exact details.
IIRC the Swiss branch of IBM was providing parts and labor to Germany in wartime too
Union Carbide Bhopal disaster 3,787–16,000 deaths
They were bought by Dow in 2001. Dow also manufactured agent orange, napalm, asbestos and DBCP.
I only learned about this one recently from a Vijay Prashad interview, he said a Union Carbide executive was trying to downplay it at the time by saying ‘Indian deaths are not as tragic because they believe in reincarnation’
The Hudson’s Bay Company. Nowadays they’re mostly known as an overpriced generic department store, but historically they were deeply involved in the exploitation of aboriginal people for the commercial gain of wealthy Europeans in what is now known as Canada.
Dole fruit, the overthrow and annexation of the nation of Hawaii
IBM sold nazi Germany computers that were used in the Holocaust
Not only that but when the US air force bombed factories they owned in germany, they claimed damages and the US governement paid them back lol.
God what a power move
mining companies are pretty badconsidering the correlation between excess deaths and unemployment, anyone who does layoffs or downsizing to pad a stock valuation gets the wall twice.
Can you name one, for example, with a famous atrocity? I know I’ve heard 75% of mining companies in Africa are Canadian…
i’m hardly an expert but here’s some torture and murdering https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/tanzanians-sue-barrick-gold-in-canada-over-alleged-mine-abuses
Siemens had slave labor factories in German concentration camps
you might enjoy this wiki article
literally every japanese car company produced shit for the IJA, even Honda(officially incorporated in 1946)'s predecessor was.
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Exxon Mobil is also pushing Guyana to go to war with Venezuela right now.
Elon Musk’s “we’ll coup whoever we want” tweet regarding the short lived Christian fascist coup in Bolivia
DOW chemical
pick basically any german company
Nestlé is known for many misdeeds, such as promoting unhealthy products, using slave labor, demanding Ethiopia its pay debts to the company during a famine, extracting large amounts of water for commercial purposes in drought areas, union-busting, promoting deforestation.
Condemning it was mainstream 15 years ago, nowadays I think it wouldn’t be too difficult for them to get a yesmen army like Elon Musk has. 😌
a yesmen army like Elon Musk has.
What do they need that for? 😨
for loyal customers that buy anything they sell, I suppose.
pretty sure they were just granted rights to steal more water near flint too
Bayer (which at the time was a part of IG Farben), who you probably know for Aspirin, created Zyklon B for the Nazis.
