'Yellen has signalled that the US is throwing its full weight behind a global minimum corporate tax rate – and framing this quite explicitly as an end to the race to the bottom.
'This is a powerful narrative shift, in favour of tax justice.'
'If endorsed by other countries and the US Congress, the Biden administration’s proposals would be the biggest shake-up in corporate taxation in decades — and could put tax havens out of business.' ft.com/content/b358eb…
‘More hopeful is the proposal for a global minimum tax... Such a coalition could side-step resistance and sabotage by countries that have been captured by the tax avoidance industry, and break the vicious cycle of beggar-thy-neighbour tax competition.’ taxjustice.net/2021/04/15/the…
'Since the dawn of civil society campaigning for international tax justice, this may be the closest activists have come to ending the era of tax havens and massive tax avoidance' thefactcoalition.org/a-biden-boom-i…
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This is an exceptionally dumb analogy, not least because there is, and was, effectively zero Spanish-speaking secessionist sentiment in this territory—a complete difference from the Ukrainian SSR.
A *better* analogy to Ukraine demanding independence from the USSR would be those in Hawaii rising up against Washington, not some... random swath of the American Southwest that has no sense of distinct nationhood.
Kind of ridiculous the 1870s Modoc War in California/Oregon isn’t better remembered in the US:
—The only Indian War where a US general was killed
—A tiny band of Modocs successfully held the US at bay for *six months*
—Saw the only Indian Wars trial/hanging for war crimes
Mapping out Klamath and Modoc territories before the arrival of the Americans:
Even stranger for why the Modoc War’s been largely forgotten: It was Manifest Destiny at its absolute worst.
American war crimes, a concentration camp, forced train transport nearly 2,000 miles from a home they refused to give up to an imperial power.
NEW: One Texas GOP legislator has proposed an "1836 Project" for "patriotic education"—which is a good chance to revisit just how central cementing slavery was to the Texas Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/161685…
Quick timeline of slavery and the Texas Revolution:
1829: Mexico abolishes slavery.
1830: Anglo lobbyists secure a slavery "exemption" for Texas.
1833: Stephen F. Austin: "Texas must be a slave country."
1835: First shots of the Texas Revolution.
The Texas Revolution: Less a successor to the American Revolution, and far more a precursor to the Confederate slave empire.