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Tag Archives: USA
Europe and the financial mafia – a love affair
About a year ago I wrote about how US measures on curbing tax evasion had unnecessary repercussions on innocent citizens worldwide. Meanwhile I got used to be ripped off by dubious financial institutions that started controlling all sorts of money … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, corruption, Europe, European Union, money laundring, money transfers, Panama papers, Politics, US tax law, USA
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Why don’t you trade your political career against one in banking, Mr Obama?
In an act of revenge on Swiss banks facilitating tax crimes of US citizens, US president Obama reaches out to foreign governments, not realizing that all they do is punishing innocent individuals who have so little in common with the … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, Banking in Switzerland, FACTA, Politics, Switzerland, tax, tax crimes, tax evasion, UBS, USA
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Obama, the US and why a constructed reality never leads the right way out
As the battle against IS was a welcomed invitation for everyone to do what they are best at, namely to step in too late and to fight with physical power rather than intelligence, so was the intervention timely for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbott, Bretton Woods, Catholic Church, equity, intergenerational equity, intragenerational equity, IS, ISIS, Islam, Middle East, Obama, Politics, Sustainable development, USA, watzlawick, world
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The WTO and nationalism as a contradiction to sustainable development and global equity
It has long been argued that free global markets provide efficient economic outcomes and access to development. However, while the WTO regime (former GATT) has almost achieved its goal of enabling free markets, it becomes increasingly apparent that society and … Continue reading
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Tagged environment, environmental degradation, environmental justice, free trade, GATT, mangroves, nationalism, neoliberal economy, SE Asia, shrimp, shrimp farming, society, USA, Vietnam, WTO
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