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The Panama Papers: Oozing Slime
The Panama Papers: Oozing Slime dennizn | Shutterstock.com The Panama Papers, a one-year investigation by over 100 reporters worldwide (The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism) of offshore money hiding/laundering/taxation avoidance, is a cause célèbre of underhandedness seldom, if ever, revealed to the world’s public. It is comparable to lifting a rotting log in the woods and finding […]
Panama partners in crime
Panama partners in crime “We have broken no laws and cooperated with the government at all times.” Variations of that statement seem to be the default defence of everyone from bankers to politicians when their names come up in the Panama Papers. In the UK the latest to resort to some version of it, was first Downing […]
Let Me Tell You About the Very Rich
Let Me Tell You About the Very Rich The Panama Papers highlight, with painstaking clarity, that austerity is not a shared sacrifice. It’s not like we didn’t know what was going on. But the “Panama Papers,” the largest-ever document leak and one that implicates political leaders and business executives around the world, confirms it — […]
Putin Denounces “Panama Papers” As U.S. Plot To Destabilize Russia
Putin Denounces “Panama Papers” As U.S. Plot To Destabilize Russia The last few days days have been rife with speculation about the motivation, if any, behind the release of the Panama Papers, with the most prominent example coming from Wikileaks two days ago on Twitter which accused the journalist consortium behind the leak, the ICIJ, of being […]
Royal Bank and BMO defend Canada’s banking sector amid Panama Papers and Fintrac fine
Royal Bank and BMO defend Canada’s banking sector amid Panama Papers and Fintrac fine Bad week for big banks as tax haven discussion hits at same time as fine levied for lack of disclosur It has been a rough week, reputationally for Canadian banks, but fundamentally they remain among the world’s best. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) The […]
George Soros Targeting Putin through the Panama Papers?
George Soros Targeting Putin through the Panama Papers? The Panama Papers represent the biggest document leak of the modern era, and George Soros apparently has a role. The scandal that has erupted after the publication of the Mossack Fonseca law firm’s so-called “Panama Papers” was organized by the US Centers for investigations on corruption and […]
The Panama Papers Problem
The Panama Papers Problem The Panama tax haven leaks reveal a lot about the lawlessness of the rich, as well as the ideological bias of the western press. “Vladimir Putin’s name appears nowhere, but the corporate media used his image repeatedly to drum up interest in what is an otherwise newsworthy story.” Americans are conspicuous by their […]
Panama Papers only a glimpse into ‘astonishing’ wealth stashed offshore
Panama Papers only a glimpse into ‘astonishing’ wealth stashed offshore Some estimates suggest between 8 and 14 per cent of global wealth is kept in tax havens It’s estimated that at least $7 trillion and up to $32 trillion is currently kept in holdings in tax havens. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) The provocative revelations coming out of […]
The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and Power
The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and Power Technologies such as the blockchain are enabling alternative ways of creating and distributing money outside central banks and states. If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we will never change anything. This is the core message of my book A Radically […]
Rothschild Humiliates Obama, Reveals That “America Is The Biggest Tax Haven In The World”
Rothschild Humiliates Obama, Reveals That “America Is The Biggest Tax Haven In The World” In his speech yesterday, following the Treasury’s crack down on corporate tax inversions, Obama blamed “poorly designed” laws for allowing illicit money transfers worldwide. Since the speech came at a time when the entire world is still abuzz with the disclosure from the […]
Shots Fired: Wikileaks Accuses Panama Papers’ Leaker Of Being “Soros-Funded, Soft-Power Tax Dodge”
Shots Fired: Wikileaks Accuses Panama Papers’ Leaker Of Being “Soros-Funded, Soft-Power Tax Dodge” Earlier today, for the first time we got a glimpse into some of the American names allegedly contained in the “Panama Papers”, largest ever leak. “Some”, not all, and “allegedly” because as we said yesterday, “one can’t help but wonder: why not do a Wikileaks type […]
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry. Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted […]
Panama Papers: Iceland’s PM resigns over offshore tax haven revelations
Panama Papers: Iceland’s PM resigns over offshore tax haven revelations Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson denied any wrongdoing amid protests by thousands Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, seen Tuesday, and his wife have come under fire for being linked to an offshore company that may represent a severe conflict of interest. (Bertil Enevag Ericson/Scanpix/Reuters) Iceland’s embattled […]
The Panama Papers
The Panama Papers A lot of emails have been coming in with regard to the Panama Papers. Let me say this from the outset — Panama has been the key place to establish offshore accounts for decades. This was not a government hack. The German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung obtained the stash of records from an anonymous […]
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
A Key Similarity Between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized FROM THE START of the reporting based on Edward Snowden’s leaked document archive, government defenders insisted that no illegal behavior was revealed. That was always false: Multiple courts have now found the domestic metadata spying program in violation of the Constitution and relevant statutes and have […]
