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There are ways to change the irresponsible system of tax avoidance, as Niko Block demonstrates.

New Internationalist dissects the language of high finance with low motives.

Alain Deneault explains how states legalize tax fraud.

Dan Hind explodes the self-righteous excuses of tax cheats.

Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the strands to show who wins and who loses.

Tax avoidance has its most pernicious effects in the Global South. Stephanie Boyd reports from Peru.

Josh Eisen and Richard Swift tour the offshore world to find out why governments are drowning in debt.

John Pilger visits the Marshall Islands and its bomb survivors, still blighted by US nuclear weapons.

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.

A new HIV preventive drug has sparked debate around the globe, as Amy Hall discovers.

For all the fancy packaging, many of our gadgets have nothing to do with capitalist success stories. Bob Hughes explains.

Isabelle Gerretsen talks to doctors in the Netherlands – where euthanasia is legal – about supporting patients who choose to die.

The desirability of a basic income depends on what we are expected to give up in return, writes Nick Dowson.

Sophie Cousins reports on different approaches to tackling Burma’s drug addiction crisis.

Organizations around the world that support human rights in Colombia.

The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.

Rebels talk about the big life changes they are facing. A photo story from a FARC jungle hideout by Marielle van Uitert and Sytske Susie Jellema.

Another shock referendum result – this time in Colombia. Tatiana Garavito assesses the chances of ending the longest conflict in the western world.

New Internationalist’s featured world fiction titles

Roberto comes across a body in the lake and feels compelled to investigate – but all his lover Mireille seems to want is sex. Written by Efemia Chela.