Pierre’s Payday: Cashing In on a Sinister Agenda
(UPDATED BELOW) Mark Ames has a follow-up to his story on Pierre Omidyar’s extensive links with the rightwing extremist Narendra Modi who now controls India. (I wrote about and excerpted Ames’ original story here.) As Ames pointed out in the first story, Omidyar’s support for Modi was rewarded with a vow by the candidate to open up India’s lucrative e-commerce market to foreign corporations and techno-oligarchs — like Omidyar. Now, Ames reports, Modi has made good on his promise. One of his first acts in power has been an order to draw up guidelines for cracking open Indian e-commerce to