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Issue 416 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

October 2008

Tax justice

As globalization goes mental and public funds prop up the world’s banks, this month New Internationalist uncovers the global tax scandal - and suggests where justice might lie.

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Pull down St. Paul’s!

Pull down St. Paul’s!

British aid agency ActionAid recently put in an application to demolish London’s famed St Paul’s Cathedral.
Funding cuts threaten lives in Kenya

Funding cuts threaten lives in Kenya

Human skulls and decomposing bodies dug up in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province show signs of torture.

In tents activity

Campaigners take to the canvas to show solidarity
Why ecotaxes may not be the answer

Why ecotaxes may not be the answer

Tax will, sooner or later, have to follow the environmental agenda. *Nicola Liebert* reports on mixed experiences so far, even in...
A short history of TAXATION

A short history of TAXATION

A history of the eternal fate of taxation: to be the abused or abusive means towards noble or ignoble ends, never quite able to...
Gazprom

Gazprom

Russia’s massive energy company *Gazprom* plans to be the biggest corporation in the world by 2014 – and who would bet against it...
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940 )

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940 )

Russian revolutionary

Can pay.. won't pay!

How *John Christensen* made a banker hide his head in his hands in the tax haven of Jersey. *Top dodgers*: Leona Helmsley, The...
Princess and President

Princess and President

Despite the country being hit by Typhoon Fengshen, Filipino President Arroyo arranged a 10-day trip to the US for herself and at...
Big Bad World 416 - Garden of Eden

Big Bad World 416 - Garden of Eden

*Polyp* discovers oil in the Garden of Eden.
Tax the richest:why are we waiting?

Tax the richest:why are we waiting?

As the UN goes in search of more funds to eliminate poverty, *David Hillman* reckons he knows where they’re hiding. *Top dodger...

Breathing again

Aboriginal sea rights a landmark victory

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