One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is to know where it is. This column describes a new way to measure poverty by using satellites to count people who live in darkness at night. This shows that the economic benefits of oil booms don’t trickle down to the very poor.
Read more...The Pentagon refuses to disclose how many U.S. troops — and contractors — are currently deployed to Iraq and Syria. CIvilian deaths, too
Read more...The global footprint of agents selling NZ companies and trusts
Read more...New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...Another duo of wildly offbeat New Zealand Financial Services Providers
Read more...Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...Why tax treaties are a gimmie to multinationals and a poisoned chalice for developing countries.
Read more...Quelle surprise! The US fell all over itself to give Japan breaks on agricultural trade to cinch a TPP deal. But developing countries? Fuggedaboudit.
Read more...Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?
Read more...Africa is now dotted with American outposts, drone bases, and compounds for elite teams of Special Operations forces.
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