<div class='node-body'><p>An <a href="http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/">interactive database</a> allowing users to search more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore tax havens including the British Virgin Islands has gone online.</p>

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As Dawn Paley reports, the Rule of U.S. Law in Mexico is changing Mexican jurisprudence from an inquisitive to an accusative criminal process. Designed to mesh with the U.S.-sponsored drug war, the legal forms imposed by USAID on Mexico have little to do...

What is a nation or a nationality? A nation or nationality is a group of people with the a
common culture, history and background. ---- What is nationalism? This is the idea that
your nation or nationality is more important than your class. That you have more in common
with other members of the nation, regardless of their class position and therefore must
unite as a nation.