Nick Shaxson, the TJN media officer has a new book out ‘Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil’. He’s talked about it in the
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Vemont has voted to start impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. I checked this wasn’t an April Fool. Then I wanted to cheer. It’s my
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I’ve been involved in a debate at AccountingWEB which flows from their limited coverage of the new tax amnesty (a story that I note has
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I note the FT says this morning that: One of Paul Wolfowitz’s two deputies on Wednesday urged the World Bank president to resign as the
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The World Bank has launched its Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative. Basically that’s a service to help countries that have been plundered by corrupt rulers
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When it comes to tax Tories are predictable. They don’t like them. That’s why they appoint Lords who don’t pay them. Yet paying tax is
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I said recently I didn’t often quite the Telegraph, but I’m going to again. It has a neat little table on the consequences of the
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What is to be made of the UK Revenue’s announcement that a tax amnesty is to be offered? I blogged this issue yesterday, not knowing
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Alex Cobham has an excellent blog on the Guardian site concerning Paul Wolfowitz’s problems at the World Bank. I recommend it. George Monbiot covers some
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