Environmentalists call Rex Tillerson “Lord Voldemort”. Is Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state really as bad as Harry Potter’s nemesis?
Donald Trump has confirmed Rex Tillerson, the chief executive of energy company ExxonMobil, as his official pick for secretary of state.
As chairman and CEO of the world’s largest oil and gas company, Tillerson has spent decades representing the company’s interests in Russia and in 2013 was awarded an Order of Friendship by Vladimir Putin himself.
Thanks to an army of lobbyists, companies like ExxonMobil have been influencing of foreign policy for years. But the position of America’s …read more
Source: New Statesman
