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FiSahara: The world’s most remote film festival

FiSahara: The world’s most remote film festival

The festival offers refugees and international guests excitement and windows into forgotten worlds, writes Stefan Simanowitz.
Say ‘no’ to lying, bullying and monopolising corporate media!

Say ‘no’ to lying, bullying and monopolising corporate media!

Rupert Murdoch is only part of the problem. Vanessa Baird reports from the Media Democracy Festival in London.
Fox in charge of the hen house

Fox in charge of the hen house

Tax authorities are complicit in their own undoing, writes Alain Deneault.
Tax cheating, easy living

Tax cheating, easy living

Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.
Labour rights in the global electronics industry

Labour rights in the global electronics industry

In advance of International Human Rights Day, we shine a light on labour rights abuses in the global electronics industry.
The coming war on China

The coming war on China

A major US military build-up is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger reports.

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Acts of conscience on a bended knee

Mark Engler reflects on how one man’s protest made waves around the US.

FiSahara: the world's most remote film festival

The festival offers refugees and international guests excitement and windows into forgotten worlds, writes Stefan Simanowitz.

Indigenous rights: Justin Trudeau’s elephant in the room

The Canadian PM had promised change to the treatment of First Nations, but Jasmine Andersson shows how hopes have been frustrated thus far.

A closer look at Brazil’s economy

As new president Michal Temer tries to fix the economy through austerity, Kimberley Brown interviews Brazilian political scientist Sergio Gregorio Baierle.

Fox in charge of the hen house

Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.

Whose money is it anyway?

Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.

Tax avoidance: the damage done

Tax avoidance is anything but a victimless crime, with some of its most pernicious effects in the Global South, Stephanie Boyd shows.

Blogs

Tigger Stack – a most extraordinary woman

We will mourn our loss of Tigger. But it’s her life we must celebrate, writes Mari Thekaekara.

The inextricable link between migration and sweatshops

The possibility of workers’ rights and climate justice movements responding together provides hope, writes Dalia Gebrial.

Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable

What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? Mark Graham asks.

Say ‘no’ to lying, bullying, criminal and monopolizing corporate media!

Rupert Murdoch is only part of the problem. Vanessa Baird reports from the Media Democracy Festival in London.

Fracking giant fails to lock up a grandmother

Far from frightening off the campaigners by taking one of them to court, Cuadrilla has given them a boost, writes Jamie Kesley-Fry.

The dark side of Christmas: the impact on sweatshops

It’s not elves, but underpaid Chinese workers working around the clock that will enable you to unwrap your presents, writes Amoge Ukaegbu.

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