Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the strands to show who wins and who loses.
Top stories
Acts of conscience on a bended knee
Mark Engler reflects on how one man’s protest made waves around the US.
- Mark Engler
- Issue 498
- 16 Dec 2016
FiSahara: the world's most remote film festival
The festival offers refugees and international guests excitement and windows into forgotten worlds, writes Stefan Simanowitz.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- Web
- 15 Dec 2016
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.
- Jasmine Andersson
- Web
- 14 Dec 2016
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.
- Kimberley Brown
- Web
- 13 Dec 2016
Fox in charge of the hen house
Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.
- Alain Deneault
- Issue 498
- 12 Dec 2016
Whose money is it anyway?
Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.
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.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 14 Dec 2016
The inextricable link between migration and sweatshops
The possibility of workers’ rights and climate justice movements responding together provides hope, writes Dalia Gebrial.
- Dalia Gebrial
- 13 Dec 2016
Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable
What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? Mark Graham asks.
- Mark Graham
- 13 Dec 2016
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.
- Vanessa Baird
- 12 Dec 2016
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.
- Jamie Kelsey-Fry
- 12 Dec 2016
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.
- Amoge Ukaegbu
- 8 Dec 2016