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The Burmese government has begun discussions with Thailand about repatriating refugees from camps across the border. Melanie Hargreaves reports.

But in this increasingly jingoistic climate there is a growing number of citizens who dare to call for a peaceful solution. Nimisha Jaiswal reports.

Parents have boycotted a school census to protect against administrators being ‘turned into border guards’ by the government, Amy Hall writes.

The ‘re-election’ of Ali Bongo to a second Presidential term in Gabon is an all too familiar story for an African continent, writes Richard Swift.

An Heirloom Seed Library is rescuing ancient agricultural knowledge in Palestine’s West Bank, Giedre Steikunaite writes.

Thousands of families whose loved ones died or disappeared during Peru’s two-decades-long war with Maoist Shining Path guerrillas are one step closer to finding closure and compensation. Roxana Olivera reports.

Mass mobilizations in support of a referendum have grown in West Papu, writes Jess Worth.

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.