Issue 498

December 2016 - "The Coming War on China / Tax Avoidance"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - December 2016

From this month's magazine:

• Introduction by John Pilger

• The coming war on China

• Bikini was just the beginning, bombs still threaten the islanders

• Tax avoidance: the problems

• Tax cheating, easy living

• The game: not paying tax

• The dictionary of avoiding tax

• An American footballer makes a protest

• Country profile: South Sudan

• A story of feet in India

• Talking to Moby

From the web this month:

• FiSahara: film festival in the desert

• Mosquitoes against humans

• Africa’s new and best young inventors

• Gaelle Enganamouit: ‘We are helping the African girls of tomorrow to play football’

From this month's blogs:

• The dark side of Christmas: sweatshops

Ready lessons this month:

• Kneeling - a 2 hour lesson for Intermediate classes: vocabulary, reading, grammar, speaking

• TAX - a 2 hr lesson for Upper Intermediate classes: jigsaw reading, speaking, collocations and letter-writing