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Truthout: Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail

Truthout (12/8/25 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: Forbes reports ([link removed]) the Starbucks workers strike as you might expect: “The company claims it already offers the 'best job in retail.' … Yet the union is demanding….” “The company says, 'We’re ready to return to the bargaining table whenever the union is.' But as of yet, the union is holding out for the company to present a contract that meets demands….” You get the idea: One party is generous, the other is ornery. But even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the strike “drags” into a second month, “global support grows.”

Derek Seidman has been following the strike. He’s a writer, researcher and historian who contributes to Little Sis ([link removed]) and to Truthout, where he recently reported ([link removed]) on the Starbucks strike and…what Walmart has to do with it?

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Politico: Data centers have a political problem — and Big Tech wants to fix it

Politico (12/17/25 ([link removed]) )

Also on the show: Sen. Bernie Sanders is the latest to join ([link removed]) a broad group of more than 200 environmental and economic justice advocates that just sent a letter ([link removed]) to Congress, calling for a moratorium on the construction of new data centers ([link removed]) , the energy sources powering the boom (and, as some would say, predictable bust) of artificial intelligence, until, as Sanders says, democracy “has a chance to catch up.”

Turns out as people learn more, opposition grows, and so, Politico notes ([link removed]) , “The industry is taking out ads and funding campaigns to flip the narrative and put data centers in a positive light—spinning them as job creators and economic drivers rather than resource-hungry land hogs.”

The letter to Congress was spearheaded by Food & Water Watch ([link removed]) . We’ll hear from the group’s deputy director, Mitch Jones.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at press coverage of Bondi Beach ([link removed]) .

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