Issue 498 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
December 2016
The coming war on China
The coming war on China: A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is underway in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. This is provocative and dangerous, argues John Pilger in his special report.
Tax avoidance: An in-depth and global look at how corporations and rich individuals are looting the public purse – and why governments are allowing them to get away with it. Edited by Josh Eisen and Richard Swift.
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Tax cheating, easy living
Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.
From this month's guest editor: John Pilger
Journalist John Pilger introduces the December edition of New Internationalist magazine.
Acts of conscience on a bended knee
Mark Engler reflects on how one man's protest made waves around the US.
The dissimulation game
Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the...
The coming war on China
A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting...
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