Nicholas Shaxson – The Guardian Switzerland and other offshore specialists are doing their best to frustrate international transparency in taxation The world is seeing the first stirrings of an emerging new architecture of global transparency in taxation which could, if pushed forwards, help governments for the first time raise serious …
Surprise, Surprise! Iraq War Was About Oil
This is a cogent summary, by a recovering CIA guy, of recent evidence on the real reasons the US and England went to war in Iraq. OIL = Oil, Israel, Logistics But as McGovern points out, big policy is usually not just one reason, but a political coalition of reasons, …