Saturday High Noon

Program Summary: 24 Jan. 2015

In the January 2015 Taxcast: how offshore is ruining the 'Beautiful Game' – the Taxcast scrutinises football's own goal. Also: how banks with criminal convictions are being allowed to continue to handle our money, how people may be allowed to apply for anonymity in the UK's new register of beneficial owners of companies to be introduced in 2016, and the meeting of the world's most powerful in that bastion of transparency, Davos, Switzerland. Plus more scandal and unique analysis. Listeners are encouraged to bookmark the Tax Justice Network. (30 min.)

The Global Research News Hour (Canada) radio this week, we spend the hour discussing the looming the collapse scenarios facing the United States with Russian-American engineer Dmitry Orlov. Orlov's perspective on collapse is informed by his extended trips to his former homeland before and during its collapse.  In this interview, Orlov also comments on the current situation with low oil prices, peak oil and its impact on agriculture, Russian moves in alignment with China, overtures toward the EU, and more.  Dmitry Orlov has written two books, Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects as well as the Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit. Mr. Orlov is also the author of the blog cluborlov.com and a much sought after geo-political analyst.