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.
Donald Trump Supporters and Opponents Agree: Candidacy is About Race and Racism By Jon Hecht, July 25, 2016
Trump, Trade and US Working Class Discontent By Dr. Jack Rasmus, July 23, 2016
Gaza Lives: Story by Anonymous By Palestine Solidarity Campaign, July 23, 2016
Polarization and the Powder Keg: Corruption, Deception and Betrayal. America’s Crisis of Legitimacy By Prof. James Petras, July 22, 2016
Photo Essay from India’s Victims of Urban Development: Life In Pieces For Delhi’s Displaced Community By Vishank Singh, July 21, 2016
Poverty Chains and Global Capitalism. Towards a Global Process of Impoverishment By Prof. Benjamin Selwyn, July 20, 2016
Donald Trump and the Revolt of the Proles. By Mike Whitney, July 20, 2016
African Americans and Mass Struggle during the Early Years of the Great Depression: The Yokinen Trial of 1931 By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 18, 2016
Poverty and Despair: Basics in Nepal Were Absent Before the 2015 Earthquake By Barbara Nimri Aziz, July 14, 2016
Britain’s Scramble for Africa: The New Colonialism By Colin Todhunter, July 14, 2016
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart By Caleb T. Maupin, July 13, 2016
Report from Greece’s Kos Island: The Daily Harassment and Social Plight of the Refugees By Luisa Weber, July 12, 2016
Venezuela and When People Are “Forced to Eat Shit” By Andre Vltchek, July 09, 2016
Detroit Public Schools: A Case Study in American Apartheid By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 06, 2016
After “Brexit”: A Social-Democratic Re-Founding of Europe? By Ingar Solty, June 30, 2016
U.S Democratic National Convention: Platform for Deception – Democrats at Work By William Boardman, June 30, 2016
European Unification Divides Europeans: How Forcing People Together Tears Them Apart By Diana Johnstone, June 30, 2016
Post-Brexit: Imagine a New European Community By Martin Winiecki, June 26, 2016
The Tory Chickens Come Home to Roost. Brexit, What Next? By William Bowles, June 24, 2016
Who Should Formulate Policy in America, the People or the Politicians? The Essentials of “Good Government” By William John Cox, June 23, 2016
The US Economy Is Unable to “Emerge from the Mud” By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez, June 23, 2016
Global Financial Warfare: Neoliberalism and the New World Order By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner, June 23, 2016
Is There a Role for the Peace, Antiracist and Social Justice Movements in the 2016 Elections? By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 22, 2016
The Slow Crash. The Shrinking of the Real Economy By Prof Michael Hudson and Bonnie Faulkner, June 21, 2016
Terror in East Africa: Al Shabaab By Igor Pejic, June 21, 2016
The Economics of America’s Private Prison System By Lauren Karaffa, June 21, 2016
BREXIT vs. GREXIT – The True Face of Europe By Peter Koenig, June 19, 2016
India or China: Has Nepal A Realistic Choice? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, June 18, 2016
Slavery in Thailand: How Southeast Asian Slaves Catch the Seafood Eaten in the US By Patrick Winn, June 17, 2016
Your Pet Dogs and Cats Could Be Eating Seafood People Were Murdered For By Patrick Winn, June 17, 2016
Food for Thought: How Corporations in Thailand Use Slavery to Bring You the Seafood in Your Fridge and on Your Tables By Tan Hui Yee, June 17, 2016
Cambodia for Sale: An Introduction on the Social Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms By Jack Barton, June 17, 2016
Pedophilia and Sex Slavery and Violence in Cambodia By Emilia Dyech, June 17, 2016
Photo Essay of the Dirty Secret of South Korea’s KIA Motors: Year-Long Roof-Top Sit-In By Asia-Pacific Research, June 16, 2016
French Government Threatens Ban on Protests against Labor Law By V. Gnana and Alex Lantier, June 16, 2016
Neoliberalism and The Globalization of War. America’s Hegemonic Project By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 16, 2016
Kill List: Smashing the ‘B’ in BRICS. “Neoliberalism or Chaos” in Brazil By Pepe Escobar, June 15, 2016
Land Grabbing by Global Agribusiness By Grain, June 14, 2016
The Plight of Farmers in the Philippines: April Tragedy in Kidapawan By Prof. Phoebe Zoe Maria Sanchez, June 13, 2016
False Flag Terrorism and Class Struggle: From Paris to Abidjan By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, June 13, 2016
It’s a Small World at the Top: Which Corporations Control the World? By International Business Degree Guide, June 13, 2016
The Politics of Boxing: Muhammad Ali and Ring Activism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 13, 2016
Canadian OceanaGold Company Told to leave El Salvador and the Philippines By Dylan Penner, June 10, 2016
After Tel Aviv Attacks, Israel Launches Police-State Crackdown By Thomas Gaist, June 10, 2016
Mass Voter Disenfranchisement in US Elections By Tom Carter, June 09, 2016
The Wages of Neoliberalism: Poverty, Exile and Early Death By Sharmini Peries and Prof Michael Hudson, June 08, 2016
Pro-GMO Lobby: Genetically Engineered Golden Rice: Is This the Solution for Disease, Poverty and Malnutrition? By Colin Todhunter, June 08, 2016
Housing Struggle Continues in Detroit Defying Landlords and Bankers By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 08, 2016
Trump: ‘We’re Gonna Be Looking Into’ How We Can Get Rid of All the Muslims By Jon Queally, June 07, 2016
Video: The EU in Crisis: What Future for the European Union? By South Front, June 06, 2016
Muhammad Ali
Who Will Follow the Example of Muhammad Ali’s Principled Stand in Our Day? By David Walsh, June 06, 2016
Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto By Carlo Fanelli, June 05, 2016
Employment Lies. The Manipulation of US Unemployment Data By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 04, 2016
More Than 2,500 Refugees Drowned in Mediterranean So Far This Year By Martin Kreickenbaum, June 02, 2016
Corporate Oil Palm Plantations in Africa and the Destruction of Local Farming Communities By Grain, June 02, 2016
“State of Black America”: National Urban League Report Says African Americans Remain ‘Locked Out’ By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 02, 2016
Turning A Blind Eye to Brazilian Coup, Organization of American States (OAS) Targets Venezuela’s Maduro By Lauren McCauley, June 01, 2016
The South African National Student Uprising of 1976: Looking Back 40 Years Later By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 01, 2016
Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World By Prof. James Petras, May 31, 2016
India: The Worst Drought in Living Memory, 300 Million People Affected By Dr. S. G. Vombatkere, May 31, 2016
“Illegal Immigrants” in the USA: Invisible in Life, Invisible in Death By Prof Susan Babbitt, May 30, 2016
Did the Clinton Foundation Steal from the Poor? By Dady Chery and Charles Ortel, May 30, 2016
USAID Funds Honduran Company Implicated in Berta Caceres Murder By Telesur, May 30, 2016
Greek Debt Negotiations –Troika and IMF Outmaneuver Syriza Again By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 28, 2016
Venezuela: Institutional Stalemate, Deep Economic Crisis. Military Intervention? By Jorge Martin, May 27, 2016
In Nine Democratic US Election Debates, Not a Single Question About Poverty By Adam Johnson, May 27, 2016
The Eurogroup New Bailout Deal for Greece By Stavros Mavroudeas, May 26, 2016
Brazil Coup Is an Assault on Democracy By Diane Abbott, May 25, 2016
Latin America’s Revolution Under Attack By Asad Ismi, May 25, 2016
Cashing In at the Race Track While Facing Charges of “Abusive” Lending Practices By Matt Peppe, May 25, 2016
Kazakhstan Color Revolution? New Point of Instability in Central Asia By South Front, May 25, 2016
Troika Heat-Seeking Missile Destroys Greece By Robert Hunziker, May 25, 2016
U.S. Democratic Party Is Hardening Over Clinton/Sanders Split By Eric Zuesse, May 25, 2016
Americans: A Conquered People: The New Serfs. “Russia and China stand between Washington and Washington’s Goal of Hegemony over the Entire World” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, May 23, 2016
French Parliament Extends State of Emergency amid Rising Protests By Alex Lantier, May 20, 2016
The Crisis This Time: US Capitalism Continues to Decline with No End in Sight By Danny Haiphong, May 19, 2016
French Government Backs Neo-Fascist Protest against Opposition to Labor Law By Alex Lantier, May 19, 2016
American workers
The Squatter Movement in New York City: Seizing Housing By Frank Morales and Bonnie Faulkner, May 19, 2016
Michel Temer’s All-Male Cabinet Enrages Brazilian Feminists By Al Arabiya, May 18, 2016
Brazil: 2012 Interview with MST Leader João Pedro Stédile on Dilma Government’s Agrarian Reform Program By João Pedro Stedile and Celso Horta, May 17, 2016