Tax havens are a geopolitical nightmare, and transfer pricing is a legal accounting trick to get money into tax havens, writes *Tanya Rawal-Jindia Amazon.com Inc. was brought to court by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2017 for...
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive, writes *Kevin Young. On August 5, the Trump administration issued an executive order escalating its sanctions against Venezuela. The...
*Jan Lundius laments the Libyan debacle after the fall of Gaddafi, its former leader. And I’ve seen it before, and I’ll see it again. Yes I’ve seen it before, just little bits of history repeating. Propeller Heads: History repeating...
Zambian farmers win ground-breaking legal victory in the UK, reports *Louise Eldridge In a historic ruling, the UK Supreme Court has allowed 1,826 Zambian villagers to continue to pursue their case (Lungowe v. Vedanta) against UK-based mining giant Vedanta...
For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. But for women pastoralists livestock farmers in the semi-arid lands of Kenya climate change has...