The Heiress, the Queen, and the Trillion-Dollar Tax Shelter
An ugly family battle on the island of Jersey spills into the open.
David Miranda and the Human-Rights Black Hole
David Miranda is many things—a boisterously proud, gay Brazilian; an outspoken civil liberties evangelist; a freshly minted university graduate; and the spouse of Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who has been publishing highly classified material leaked by former CIA systems analyst and National Security Agency (NSA) senior adviser Edward Snowden.
But one thing Miranda is not is a terrorist.
Miranda Is Not a One-Off; it Happened to Me.
Before David Miranda was detained for nine hours at London’s Heathrow Airport, there was me..
When Journalism Works
One year ago, a group of financial and political journalists put their heads together to tackle a very onerous task: raise awareness about what is happening on the highly influential island of Jersey – the largest of the Channel Islands, a global tax shelter of some...
We Did It!
This past week, I received my UK visa -- a visa that will last me two years. After 500 days to the day (including leap year) of being banned in the UK, my time in visa purgatory has ended, allowing me to re-enter the UK Common Travel...
Q: A Journalist Traveling to the UK Should Use Which Visa?
A: In my case, the answer is one of these. Can you guess which? Overseas domestic worker - private household £270 UK ancestry £270 Fisherman operating inside UK waters (dependent on contract of employment) £270 Off-shore workers £270 Sole representatives £270 Van der...
Jersey: The Richest Offshore Tax Shelter of Them All
Much has been made of the offshore tax havens of Mitt Romney’s – one of the wealthiest men to ever to run for U.S. president – but few realize the impact of billions of dollars on the tiny islands that stash them.
Celebrating One-Year Anniversary Of My UK Ban
Last picture in Jersey (before being banned)Feeling grateful for supporters in the UK and around the world who have demanded my UK travel ban be overturned. Because of you -- and the help of UK Member of Parliament John Hemming, it expires today. To mark the ban's...
#FreeJersey: A Small Island Fights For Its Democracy
Almost everyone has heard of New Jersey, but few people have heard of "old" Jersey -- the 5-by-9-mile island just off the coast of France that belongs to the British Crown and is best known for its wonderful Jersey cream, cows and potatoes. What it is less known...
Part I: How To Harass A Journalist
My close friends -- Jonathan and Vahni -- flew from London to Jersey this winter to oversee the packing of my things, mostly personal belongings and papers, after the Jersey authorities flagged me for removal at the UK border following my research into the Haut de la...
Picking Your Poison
I was in fifth grade the year of the Chernobyl disaster. I watched with morbid rapture all the great nuke movies -- Silkwood with Meryl Streep, Marshall Brickman's Manhattan Project and Hal Hartley's Trust (which is as amazing as it is impossible to find). I grew...
The Next Generation of Nuclear Energy
The Next Generation of Nuclear EnergyThe Global JournalJuly 6, 2012Since 2001, a project has been underway to determine ‘alternative’ nuclear technologies, conducted by a large group of scientists from over 15 nations. The list of specifications is very demanding, but...
Anarchy In The UK?
The following story was commissioned by The Guardian after I was detained, questioned and banned from the United Kingdom in the wake of research for my next book in the Channel Islands, a $1 trillion tax haven off the coast of England. Many of you have asked what I...
Sunday’s News Shows, Brought To You By Big Oil
SUNDAY'S NEWS SHOWS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIG OILJune 4, 2012hile Big Oil is always active during an election season, this year news and radio shows have been particularly shameless about airing back-to-back commercials propounding the virtues of oil...
Oil and Gas Politics: Just The Nonpartisan Facts
I've been writing a series for Fortune in recent weeks tackling questions like, if the U.S. is now selling more petroleum products than it is buying for the first time in more than six decades, why is most of the country paying around $4 a gallon for gas? And if 30%...