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Environment
Global Reclaim Power 2016 October Days of Actions in the PhilippinesAbout 150 activists, community leaders, and climate justice advocates from various climate networks and people’s movement marched from the University of Santo Tomas to the Mendiola Peace Arch, and were joined by residents of Barangay 105, the local community affected by Rock Energy International Corporation’s coal stockpile located in Happyland, Tondo, Manila. -> read article... |
Ireland
Apple and Ireland. Who would have thought it?The European Commission has ordered the computer giant Apple to pay €13 billion in back taxes to the Irish government, ruling that over and above the low rates of corporation tax Ireland levies to encourage the installation of multinationals, the “sweetheart deal” offered to Apple gave it unfair advatages over rivals. The Irish government is appealing this decision and thus refusing this tax income. [International Viewpoint] -> read article... |
Portugal
An unlikely deal for the Left begets victories and exposes all contradictionsAfter the Portuguese general election last October it seemed unlikely that the actual outcome could have made such a long run. The Socialist Party, led by Antonio Costa, had to choose between its utter surrender to the center-right or a shift to the left, pressured by the relative majority of the right-wing coalition that governed in Portugal during the troika years on the one side, and a rising left on the other. -> read article... |