Poverty & Social Inequality

America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms.
For more than 12 years the WEF has pushed a corporate model in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The “big target” has been India, where resistance to corporate takeover of agriculture has been fierce ever since the failed 1960’s Green Revolution of the Rockefeller Foundation.
62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. More shockingly, this share of wealth by half of the world’s people has collapsed by over 40% in the last five years.
The US imperial experience over the past century embodies the trajectory of the rise and fall of empires. During a time of declining empire, living standards of Americans have declined, social programs and safety nets have been scrapped in favor of the war economy.
The Plight of Thousands of Haitian Migrants at the US-Mexico Border By Christiane Ndedi Essombe, January 20, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Rally in Detroit: The Struggle to Defeat Racism, War and Poverty By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 19, 2017
Globalization and Social Inequality: Obscene Wealth of Eight Mega-Billionaires By Stephen Lendman, January 18, 2017
Canadian Aid to Africa under Justin Trudeau By Toby Leon Moorsom, January 17, 2017
Crimes against Humanity: ‘No Food, No Medicine, No Money’: Yemeni Town Faces Mass Death by Starvation By RT News, January 16, 2017
India’s Man-Made Economic Calamity: How Many Will Die from Starvation, Malnutrition and Disease as a Result of Modi’s Demonetization? By Walt Gelles, January 16, 2017
India’s Rising Income Inequality: Richest 1% Own 58% of Total Wealth By The Times of India, January 16, 2017
Obama’s Farewell Address: Touting the Legacy, Exposing the Truth. Non Stop Wars, A Costly Six Trillion Dollar Legacy By Joachim Hagopian, January 15, 2017
Obamacare’s Death Throes: Unaffordable Healthcare, Enriches the Insurance Companies By Stephen Lendman, January 13, 2017
Haiti’s “Depopulation”: Economic Dislocation, Poverty and Despair, A Globalist Project? By Dady Chery, January 13, 2017
India’s Demonetization Triggers Extreme Poverty and Famine By Gideon Polya, January 12, 2017
Obama’s Legacy of War, Repression and Inequality By Joseph Kishore, January 12, 2017
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Legacy: Linking the Civil Rights Movement to the Struggle Against War and Poverty By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 10, 2017
Banks are Responsible for the Economic and Social Crisis in Greece By Eric Toussaint, January 09, 2017
New Year Opens with Wave of Layoffs in the US By Jerry White, January 09, 2017
Weekend Reader: Examining India’s Demonetization: Social Impact, US Backing and Global Implications By Global Research News, January 08, 2017
Strikes Spread in Mexico, Thousands of Police Deployed to Capital By Neil Hardt, January 06, 2017
India, From the Destabilization of Agriculture to Demonetization, “Made in America” By Colin Todhunter, January 05, 2017
New US Congress to Launch Assault on Social Programs By Patrick Martin, January 03, 2017
Rohingya in Myanmar: Nobel Laureates Urge Action over ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ By Mairead Maguire, January 03, 2017
Canada’s “Basic Income”: Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities By John Clarke, January 02, 2017
Brexit in the New Year: Britain Remains Fractured and Disillusioned, Government Confusion By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 01, 2017
Human Rights and Health Inequality. A Worldwide Phenomenon By Dr Claudio Schuftan, January 01, 2017
World’s Richest Increased their Wealth by $237 Billion in 2016 By Nick Beams, December 29, 2016
India’s Demonetization Undermines the Right to Food and the Right to Life By Right To Food Campaign, December 29, 2016
India’s Demonetization Policy Triggers Famine In Rural Areas By Rahul M, December 29, 2016
Emancipation Rebellion Heirs, Don’t Grin and Bear Jamaica’s Oppression! By Dr. Ajamu Nangwaya, December 27, 2016
Africa in Review: Imperialist Foreign Policy Breeds Military Conflict and Disunity By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 27, 2016
Trump’s Vineyard Looks to Hire Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs By Nika Knight, December 27, 2016
Ukraine in Full-Blown Collapse: Deep-seated Economic, Social Crisis and Environmental Crisis By Dmitry Orlov, December 27, 2016
Rising Inequalities: Economic Growth in the United States: A Tale of Two Countries By Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, December 21, 2016
African Electoral Politics, Instability and the Burgeoning Economic Crisis By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 20, 2016
Video: #Humans Of Demonetized India: Why We Poor Have To Suffer? By Akhil K Prabhakar and Chidhambaram, December 18, 2016
South Africa’s Economic and Social Crisis By Irvin Jim, December 16, 2016
Fortune 500 Goes Farming, Nestlé, Monsanto, PepsiCo et al: The GROW Disaster, Destroying Family Farms Worldwide By Grain, December 15, 2016
The Social Impacts of India’s Demonetization: Banks Threaten Impoverished Farmers… By P. Sainath, December 14, 2016
The Bleak Plight of Refugees on Greece’s Samos Island By Chris Jones, December 14, 2016
The Myth of India as an Upcoming Asian Economic Powerhouse. Rising Poverty and Social Inequality By Junaid Ghoto, December 13, 2016
India’s Demonetization Project: Economic Destabilization of an Entire Country, “A Monumental Management Failure” By Satya Sagar, December 09, 2016
Italy – A Staged Referendum, Another Parliamentary Coup in the Making By Peter Koenig, December 09, 2016
“Fake Economic News”, Dismal US Jobs Report By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 08, 2016
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): A Secret Trade Deal with Devastating Economic, Political and Social Consequences By Friends of the Earth, December 08, 2016
Housing Crisis in America. Trump Appoints Dr. Ben Carson as Housing Secretary. Bankruptcy of Incoming Administration By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 06, 2016
Yes Prime Minister Modi: You Are Right. “In India Even Beggars are Going Cashless” By Countercurrents.org, December 05, 2016
The Virtue of Protest: Democracy, Refugees and Australia’s Parliament By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 04, 2016
Waiting for the Barbarians, “A Sad, Pathetic Period in American History” By Chris Hedges, December 02, 2016
UN Finally Offers ‘Half Apology’ to Haiti for Cholera Outbreak By Telesur, December 02, 2016
Wall street
Trump Forms a Wall Street Government to Attack Health Care and Workers’ Rights By Patrick Martin, November 30, 2016
What Has Neoliberal Capitalism Ever Done for India? The Demonetization Heist By Colin Todhunter, November 29, 2016
Fidel Castro, A Leader of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Confronting US Hegemony By Political Concern, November 27, 2016
India’s Demonetization “Shock Therapy”: State Sponsored Financial Repression By Sridhar Chakravarthi Raman, November 27, 2016
Bodies as Propaganda: The US-Australia Refugee Agreement By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 22, 2016
Haiti’s Rainy-Day Presidential Elections Without Clinton Thunder By Dady Chery, November 21, 2016
The Great CETA Swindle. Workers Rights, Consumers, Environment, Healthcare, Small Business, Democracy By Corporate Europe Observatory, November 20, 2016
Demonetization in India Has Paralyzed Retail Trade and the Informal Economy, Triggered Violence, Poverty and Despair By Saktiman Ghosh, November 19, 2016
“Black Money” and India’s Demonetization Project By Prof Prabhat Patnaik, November 19, 2016
Demonetisation has Left India’s Food Markets Frozen – and the Future Looks Tense By M Rajshekhar and Abhishek Dey, November 18, 2016
Greece’s Public Health Services on the Brink of Collapse By Defend Democracy Press, November 18, 2016
“Housing, Water and Jobs Are Human Rights”: The Struggle against Repression, National Oppression and Economic Injustice By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 15, 2016
The Euro and the European Central Bank (ECB) Are “Murdering Europe”. How Globalization Destroys Nations By F. William Engdahl, November 15, 2016
Neoliberal Machinations: Ontario’s Economic Austerity Government Sets “Basic Income” Trap By John Clarke, November 15, 2016
Fighting the (Real) Deplorables. Corporate Financiers, Big Agriculture, Big Pharma… What are the Solutions? By LocalOrg, November 14, 2016
You’ll Only Understand Trump and Brexit If You Understand the Failure of Globalization By Washington's Blog, November 14, 2016
Trump’s Victory: Arrogance Defeated By Jean Bricmont, November 13, 2016
What the Clintons Did to Haiti By Nathan J. Robinson, November 13, 2016
Here’s Why Donald Trump Won… In America’s Midwestern “Rust Belt” By Andrew Korybko, November 12, 2016
The Struggle Continues for a Binding Treaty to #StopCorporateAbuse By Adam Parsons, November 10, 2016
India Commodity Options: A Game Changer for Indian Farmers? A Speculator’s Playground By Kavaljit Singh, November 10, 2016
Why Trump Won–And What’s Next By Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 10, 2016
Thankfully, It’s Not Madam President… Hold the Cheers for Donald Trump… By Stephen Lendman, November 09, 2016
Hillary versus Donald: Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead! Victory for the Wizard of Oz! By Diana Johnstone, November 09, 2016
Political Earthquake: The Trump Revolution in The United States By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, November 09, 2016
Vote Machines Audit Function Disabled – and Worse By Greg Palast, November 09, 2016
“Tiny Homes” Banned in U.S. at Increasing Rate as Government Criminalizes “Sustainable Living” By Justin Gardner, November 08, 2016
Brazil’s President Michel Temer Instructs Military and Police to Attack Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) By Socialist Project, November 06, 2016
Depopulation and “Social Explosion”: Mass Exodus from Ukraine to Russia, 80,000 People a Week By Alexander Boyko, November 06, 2016
Increased Poverty in 96% of U.S. House Districts, During Obama’s Presidency By Eric Zuesse, November 06, 2016
UN Warns US-Saudi War Threatens Mass Starvation in Yemen By Bill Van Auken, October 30, 2016
Spain, The Dice Are Cast, Another Parliamentary Coup Instigated from Outside By Peter Koenig, October 29, 2016
The Causes of the Refugee Crisis: Mediterranean Refugee Death Toll in 2016 “Worst We Have Seen” By United Nations, October 28, 2016