The USA: A Safe Haven for Torturers (PDF) Report on alleged torturers living in the United States, often with the knowledge and permission of US immigration authorities, and despite a law that gives US courts the jurisdiction to try them ( Amnesty International USA ) The report includes 16 case studies, most of which profile individuals linked to US-sponsored regimes See also this CNN coverage, this Reuters coverage, and the text of the Convention against Torture FROM http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm ALSO Rigged Rules and Double Standards (1.48MB PDF) Oxfam report indexing the free trade rhetoric of the world's major trading powers against the tariffs and other measures they use to protect their own industries while blocking imports from poorer countries ( Make Trade Fair ) See also this Reuters coverage, this Washington Post article that bizarrely attempts to spin the report as 'uncharacteristic support for free-market economics', and this article by Ashley Benigno
The Mysterious Death Of An Enron Exec Article on questions surrounding the investigation of the apparent suicide by gunshot of former Enron executive Cliff Baxter in January ( CBS ) See also this copy of the autopsy report (1.12MB PDF), and this Reuters coverage How the richest man in Britain avoids tax (1) (2) 'The result of getting non-domicile status is that a man like Hans Rausing can earn a fortune in the rest of the world and, as long as he does not bring his income or gains into the UK, with very few exceptions, he is allowed to pay absolutely no UK tax on them. He can do this for as long as he likes. He has done it for 20 years. The Irish Republic inherited the practice from the UK, but we can find no other country in the world which allows this to happen' ( Nick Davies via Guardian )
