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.
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Maduro Government Imposes State of Emergency in Venezuela By Bill Van Auken, May 17, 2016
Gallup: Americans Want Socialized Healthcare By Eric Zuesse, May 17, 2016
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) Statement on the Suspension of President Dilma Rousseff By MST - Landless Workers Movement of Brazil, May 16, 2016
In the US Congress, Money Doesn’t Just Talk, it Yells! Billions of US Dollars to Israel By Anthony Bellchambers, May 16, 2016
Regime Change: Now, in Brazil, the Battle for Democracy is Fought on the Streets By Carlos Aznárez, May 16, 2016
French Socialist Party Uses Special Powers to Impose Unpopular Labour Law Reform By Alex Lantier, May 15, 2016
Brazil’s “Neoliberal Left”: Business Accommodation and Social Debacle By Prof. James Petras, May 14, 2016
Russia Blames ‘Foreign Interference’ for Brazil Coup By Telesur, May 13, 2016
Brazil: With Rousseff Ousted, Vice President Assembles Right-Wing Government By Bill Van Auken, May 13, 2016
Detroit, Deprived of Life Sustaining Water: UN Investigates Human Rights Violations By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, May 12, 2016
Endless Corruption Is Leaving Iraq a Failed State By Gwynne Dyer, May 12, 2016
Why Sanders Won in West Virginia By Joseph Kishore, May 12, 2016
The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP’s Threat to Europe’s Elderly By Prof Michael Hudson, May 12, 2016
Greece Captured in Death Spiral By Stathis Habibis, May 11, 2016
What’s Behind the Problems of Public Education in Detroit? By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 10, 2016
Legacy of NATO Humanitarian Warfare: 1.9 Million People in Libya Have No Proper Medical Services, Says WHO By Middle East Monitor, May 09, 2016
The Plight of Indian Farmers: From Militarism and Monsanto’s GMO to Gandhi and “Bhaskar Save” By Colin Todhunter, May 06, 2016
Brazilian Senators about to Vote on Impeaching President Dilma Rousseff Face Corruption Charges By Telesur, May 06, 2016
Obama in Flint: Let Them Drink Lead By Andre Damon, May 06, 2016
US Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control By William Hawes, May 05, 2016
Human Rights Violations and Land Grabbing Linked to Global Palm Oil Supply Chains By Forest Peoples Programme, May 04, 2016
How the European Union is Manipulating the Syrian Refugees By Thierry Meyssan, May 04, 2016
Agriculture, Aquaculture, Livestock: Protecting Traditional Occupations in Indigenous and Local Communities By Forest Peoples Programme, May 03, 2016
Massive May Day Rallies Show Support for Brazil’s Rousseff By The Brics Post, May 03, 2016
Argentina: Massive Protest against Macri’s Government By The Dawn News, May 03, 2016
TTP, TTIP: Obama’s Proposed Trade Deals Would Produce “Economic Harm”. Studies By Eric Zuesse, May 03, 2016
Schools, Jails and Sports Stadiums: The Bankruptcy of Detroit’s “Development” Model By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 03, 2016
Secret TTIP Document Leak: Approval of GMO Food, Farewell EU Farmers… By War on Want, May 02, 2016
Global Financial Fraud and Inequities of Wealth. “Panama Papers”, The Tip of the Iceberg By Khaldun Malek, April 30, 2016
US Presidential Election: Widespread Popular Discontent with Neoliberalism By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, April 30, 2016
Papua New Guinea Calls for Closing Australia’s Illegal Manus Island Detention Centre By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 29, 2016
In Gaza Blockade, Humanitarian Organizations Can No Longer Be Neutral By Mike Merryman-Lotze, April 29, 2016
The Refugee Crisis in the Greek Islands: Dog Days on Samos By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, April 29, 2016
Protests Shrink as Police Attack Fourth Day of Action against French Labour Law By Alex Lantier, April 29, 2016
Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech – ‘Who’s Advising This Guy?’ By Michael T. Bucci, April 28, 2016
Refugee Crisis Threatens European Social Fabric: How NATO-linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy By F. William Engdahl, April 28, 2016
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Debated at United Nations as World Crisis Escalates By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2016
Women Leading Flint Michigan Water Crisis Lawsuit Slain in Twin Killing. Lead Poisoning of Thousands of Children By Gary Ridley, April 26, 2016
The Privatization of Water in Detroit. Massive Water Shut-Offs By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2016
In the Wake of Ecuador’s Earthquake: “Zero” Humanitarian Aid from the US, Palestine Sends Rescue Team By Telesur, April 22, 2016
Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People By Eric Draitser, April 19, 2016
“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart By Pepe Escobar, April 19, 2016
Election Campaign 2016: Major Issues Facing African Americans Largely Ignored by both Clinton and Sanders By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 18, 2016
Blanket Student Debt Amnesty Now By Mike Whitney, April 18, 2016
Journey to the End of the Night: The Paris ‘Nuit Debout’ Movement By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, April 18, 2016
The Grim Conditions of Jordan’s Immigration Detention Camps. Blatant Human Rights Violations By Siraj Davis, April 18, 2016
Nauru: A “Processing Centre” and Detention Camp for Refugees to Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 16, 2016
Labor Rights: What Did Quebec Public-Sector Unions Achieve? By Ashley Smith, April 15, 2016
South Sudan, After Independence: “Post Conflict” Famine and Despair By Antony Loewenstein, April 14, 2016
How Hillary Helped Ruin Haiti By Theodore Hamm, April 13, 2016
Life Expectancy Gap between US Rich and Poor Widens By Jerry White, April 12, 2016
EU Turkey Deal to Curb Migration By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 11, 2016
Who is Voting for Trump and Why? Pew Research Council Explains By Mike Whitney, April 11, 2016
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Venezuela: Records Low Unemployment Rate during Chavez Presidency By Edu Montesanti, April 11, 2016
Bill Clinton’s Crime Bill Led to Spike in Black Incarcerations By Abayomi Azikiwe and Press TV, April 10, 2016
The Dirty Secret of Utopia By John Pilger, April 09, 2016
Lithium-ion Batteries: Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners By Mnar Muhawesh, April 08, 2016
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The Exodus Of People Moving Away From California Is Becoming An Avalanche By Michael Snyder, April 07, 2016
“Fair Trade” versus “Unequal Trade”. The Markets for Coffee, Bananas and Wheat By Prof. Gavin Fridell, April 07, 2016
Clash of the Ignobles: The IMF, the European Commission and the Greek Bailout Saga By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 07, 2016
Tax Havens: Minority Heaven, Majority Hell By Frank Scott, April 07, 2016
Clinton Opposes Transferring Government Costs Onto Rich People By Eric Zuesse, April 06, 2016
The “Gig Economy”: Another Vicious Attack on Ordinary Working People, Decimating the Middle Class By Mike Whitney, April 06, 2016
Video: Israel Has Demolished Every Home in West Bank Bedouin Village Since Start of the Year By Sheren Khalel, April 06, 2016
Mexican Government Employing Torture in US-Backed Anti-Immigrant Drive By Neil Hardt, April 06, 2016
Trillions Stashed in Offshore Tax Havens By Stephen Lendman, April 05, 2016
European Union Throws Greece and Refugees to the Sharks By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 05, 2016
An IMF Plot, Greece, EU And BREXIT By Jon Kofas, April 05, 2016
For Your Own Good! Embedding Transnational Agribusiness and GMOs into African Agriculture Under the Veil of Philanthropy By Colin Todhunter, April 05, 2016
Trump’s First 100 Days As President By Stephen Lendman, April 03, 2016
Poverty and Social Inequality in Canada: The Debate on Basic Income and Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) By John Clarke, April 01, 2016
French Workers, Youth Defy State of Emergency to Protest Austerity Policies By Anthony Torres, April 01, 2016
Canada: Why Aren’t Conditions of Life for First Nations a National Emergency? By J. B. Gerald, March 30, 2016
A Conspiracy to Keep Wages from Rising. Is This Class Warfare? By Mike Whitney, March 30, 2016
Newly-released Email Details Complicity of Obama’s EPA in Flint Poisoning By James Brewer, March 30, 2016
Officials Stoke Anti-Muslim Hatred Following Brussels Attack By Stéphane Hugues, March 29, 2016
The War on Democracy in Latin America By John Pilger and Edu Montesanti, March 29, 2016
Finalising Cruelty: The EU-Turkey Agreement on Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 28, 2016
The Refugee Crisis on Samos Island, Greece: Glimpsing the Nightmares to Come under the Turkey-EU Pact By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, March 27, 2016
The Chinese Government’s Phony Anti-poverty Plan By John Ward, March 25, 2016