Musket. Just for the record I've been boycotting Amazon for some time, initially because of the lousy conditions they expect their workers to work in, and the lousy money they pay them.

I don't know what to do about Google, since it's practically the only search engine in town. I never bother clicking their adverts though, so hopefully they're not making any money out of me.

Regarding third world sweatshops, I agree this is a far greater problem than bent taxes. But how the hell do you keep abreast of who's ethical and who's not? All I can say is that I never shop in Primark and I never buy clothes from Tesco. Beyond that, one can only apply the maxim, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Don't buy it.

I think I might have mentioned this on Mudcat before. If so, apologies, but apropos of how all this is linked together. I do not know where Starbucks source their paper disposables, but I got an e-petition from Greenpeace recently. The gist was that Kentucky fried Chicken were sourcing theirs from a company which is destroying an area of Indonesian rain forest the size of North Wales every year.

As a result of this the habitat of the orang utan is being destroyed, as well as that of all the other animals and plant life who live in the rai forest, to say nothing of the indigenous peoples who also live there. On top of that, destruction of rain forests is a major contributor to climate change. And on top of that, there's the question of wage rates and working conditions for the people this company employs.

The good news is though that KFC have started sourcing their paper from a more ethical source. Global capitalism stinks, and will continue to do so until it is destroyed. But people power/direct action can still do a remarkable amount of good; even more so if more people engaged in it.