{"id":297356,"date":"2021-09-03T08:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213044"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:50:39","slug":"amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-competition-and-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/03\/amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-competition-and-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, \u201cEconomic Terrorism\u201d and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global corporations are colonising India\u2019s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up\u00a0Jet.com. This was followed in 2018 with a US$16 billion take-over of India\u2019s largest online retail platform, Flipkart. Today, Walmart and Amazon  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-competition-and-livelihoods\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-competition-and-livelihoods\/\">Amazon, \u201cEconomic Terrorism\u201d and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/03\/amazon-economic-terrorism-and-the-destruction-of-competition-and-livelihoods\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global corporations are colonising India\u2019s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of the online retail start-up\u00a0Jet.com&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297768,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297356\/revisions\/297768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}