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This week’s documentary film curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE.
By Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report | November 15, 2017 The massive leaking of the so-called “Paradise Papers” detailing the myriad ways corporations and individual billionaires hide their money in tax havens around the world, provided news organizations a chance to make the case for reining in global capital. Unlike the 2015 leak of […]
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This week on the New World Next Week: the Saudi-China Aramco deal takes on greater significance in the wake of the Saudi purge; the US Air Force is collecting Russian RNA “for science”; and the Paradise Papers shine another light on tax havens.
This week on the New World Next Week: the Saudi-China Aramco deal takes on greater significance in the wake of the Saudi purge; the US Air Force is collecting Russian RNA "for science"; and the Paradise Papers shine another light on tax havens.
The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar – leaked documents from a law firm that specializes in offshore services reveal how the global elite avoids paying taxes. Even the name has the same ring to it as last year’s Panama Papers expose. But the Paradise Papers are different, reflecting the complexity of the global offshore tax system.
The major issue of our time is the rapid movement toward international oligarchy, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declared in a statement to the Guardian on Monday, which noted that “Sanders’ intervention in the debate sparked by the Paradise Papers marks the most prominent political response to the leak in their opening 24 hours.”
This was another case of the big and the powerful undercutting the tax systems of the world. But could anyone be genuinely surprised at the revelations to come out of the Paradise Papers on the workings of the tax haven industry? Of the 13.4 million files revealed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and some 90[Read More...]
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