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.
Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’ By Nadia Prupis, March 24, 2016
European Union-Turkey Deal to Expel Refugees Comes into Force By Jordan Shilton, March 22, 2016
US Presidential Campaign: The Undemocratic Power of the Lobbyists aka ‘Influence Pedlars’ By Anthony Bellchambers, March 22, 2016
Australian Youth and Workers Denounce Media and Government Racist Hysteria By World Socialist Web Site, March 21, 2016
Economic Crisis in America: Entire Regions of US Will Remain in Recession until the 2020s. Study By Jerry White, March 21, 2016
American Democracy Struggles To Recover From Betrayal By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 21, 2016
Money, Weapons and Poverty in America By Michael T. Bucci, March 20, 2016
Canada: Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Suicides Exemplify Systemic Crisis By Carl Bronski, March 18, 2016
Reasons for Leaving: Refugee Stories from the Greek Island of Samos By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, March 18, 2016
American workers
Rough-sleeping on the Rise in England By Alice Summers, March 16, 2016
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad By Garikai Chengu, March 15, 2016
Millions Join Protests in Brazil Demanding Ouster of Workers Party Government By Bill Van Auken, March 15, 2016
Feeding the Bank Balance or Feeding the World: GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness By Colin Todhunter, March 15, 2016
‘Operation Barbarossa 2’: “Overpopulation” and the Funding of World War III By Peter Koenig, March 14, 2016
Killing Asylum: The Turkish-EU deal on Migrants By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 11, 2016
Europe’s Attack on Refugees Produces Humanitarian Catastrophe By Martin Kreickenbaum, March 11, 2016
Israeli Textbooks for Arab Schools: ‘Bad for Arabs, Bad for Jews’ By Jonathan Cook, March 11, 2016
Palestinians Are Joining the Exodus of Refugees to the EU… By IMEMC, March 09, 2016
Refugee Bloodlines: America and Europe Can’t Be Hypocrites Any Longer By William Hawes, March 09, 2016
Jewish Settlers Social Media Campaign against EU Aid to Palestinian Bedouins By Jonathan Cook, March 09, 2016
Violence on the Factory Farm: How Not to Feed the World By Colin Todhunter, March 08, 2016
The Front National and France’s Working Class By Sebastian Chwala, March 08, 2016
Black Lives Matter, Just Not to Hillary Clinton. African American Voters Support a “Fantasy Champion for Black Lives” By William Boardman, March 07, 2016
Nigeria’s Economic Crunch: How to Reverse the Neo-liberal Induced Crisis? Massive Looting of the Nation’s Wealth by Global Financial Actors By Kola Ibrahim, March 07, 2016
Leaked Australian Document Reveals Plans for Mass Surveillance of Immigrants By Max Newman, March 07, 2016
The Social Crisis in Detroit. On the Verge of an Urban Rebellion By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 05, 2016
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism By Chris Hedges, March 05, 2016
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left. Neo-Liberal Restoration in Latin-America By Prof. James Petras, March 05, 2016
Victory of Neoliberalism? Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End? By Claudio Katz, March 04, 2016
Poisoned and Marginalised? The Role of Agroecology in Resisting the Corporate Stranglehold on Food and Agriculture By Colin Todhunter, March 04, 2016
European Union Threatens Summary Mass Deportations of Refugees By Alex Lantier, March 04, 2016
US Elections: One Wing of the Duopoly Almost Down, One to Go By Glen Ford, March 03, 2016
Chinese Government Prepares to Sack Millions of Workers By John Ward and Peter Symonds, March 03, 2016
Bill Clinton’s Dubious Economic Legacies By Dr. Jack Rasmus, March 02, 2016
German Chancellor Merkel’s Refugee Policy and the Call for a European Army By Ulrich Rippert, March 02, 2016
Haitian People: Let Us Recover Our Dignity By Michel-Ange Cadet, March 02, 2016
ELN Spotted in FARC Territory as Both Continue Peace Process with Colombian Government By nsnbc international, March 01, 2016
Poverty in Canada: Toronto’s Homeless Shelters Bursting at the Seams By John Clarke, February 26, 2016
US Social Crisis Overshadows 2016 Presidential Election By Patrick Martin, February 26, 2016
David Cameron addresses the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester Getty Images
David Cameron – In or Out of Europe – Victory or Farce? By Peter Koenig, February 26, 2016
Haiti to Sell Offshore Island La Gonâve to Foreign Capital, Transformed into a Tax Haven… By Prof. Beguens Theus and Dady Chery, February 24, 2016
Breaking the Backbone of Indian Society: The Small Farmer By Colin Todhunter, February 24, 2016
Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries By Prof. Vicente Navarro, February 24, 2016
Thousands of “Child Refugees” to Britain Deported to Afghanistan and Iraq. Report By Maeve McClenaghan, February 22, 2016
South African Students Take on Neoliberalism and the ANC By Asad Ismi, February 22, 2016
Video: How the Greek Crisis Fuels EU Instability By South Front, February 19, 2016
Canada’s Struggle Against the Privatization of Healthcare By Justin Panos, February 18, 2016
“Regime Rotation”: Haiti’s Parliament of Owls Hatches Jocelerme Privert as Interim President By Dady Chery, February 18, 2016
Propaganda Machine Takes Aim at Zika Virus. The Causes of Microcephaly By Dr. Joseph Mercola, February 17, 2016
Puerto Ricans Suffer as Creditors Feast on Debt Colony By Matt Peppe, February 17, 2016
Closure of Balkan Refugee Route Deepens Rifts in the EU By Martin Kreickenbaum, February 16, 2016
Putin’s Stellar Economic Performance for Russia By Eric Zuesse, February 16, 2016
American workers
Health, Tax, Yemen: Three UK Ministers, A Rudderless Boat, No Paddle. By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 15, 2016
Coup Threatened in Venezuela amidst Deepening Economic Crisis By Eric London, February 15, 2016
Arms, Agribusiness, Finance and Fossil Fuels: The Four Horsemen of the Neoliberal Apocalypse By Colin Todhunter, February 15, 2016
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy. The Parasitic Nature of Finance Capital By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Prof. Anthony A. Gabb, February 13, 2016
Beyonce and the Politics of Cultural Dominance By Ajamu Baraka, February 11, 2016
Greek Military to Play Main Role in Setting Up Refugee Concentration Camps By John Vassilopoulos, February 10, 2016
Ivorian Oil Workers Strike as ICC Trial of Former Leaders Continues By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 09, 2016
The TPP If Ratified: Corporations Will Overturn U.S. Laws, Speed up Destruction of the Environment, Outsource Jobs… By David Swanson, February 09, 2016
London Donor Conference Pledges Aid Only to Keep Syrian Refugees Out of Europe By Jean Shaoul, February 08, 2016
The “Postmodern Left” and the Success of Neoliberalism By Scott Jay, February 07, 2016
Legalising Cruelties: The Australian High Court and Indefinite Offshore Detention By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 05, 2016
India Steps Up Pressure on Nepal By W.A. Sunil, February 05, 2016
Syria’s Lost Generation By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, February 04, 2016
New Israeli Stop and Frisk Police State Law Targets Palestinians and Black African Asylum Seekers Exclusively By Stephen Lendman, February 04, 2016
The IMF’s Prescription for Europe: Exploit Refugees with Low Wages By Nadia Prupis, February 03, 2016
Expensive Loans to the Poor and Unemployed: The Subprime Specter Returns, High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt By Jennifer Taub, February 03, 2016
China Announcing 400,000 Steelworker Job Cuts By Samuel Davidson, February 03, 2016
Sweden, Denmark and Refugees – Still Hope? By Jan Oberg, February 03, 2016
More Than 1 Million in US Face Food Stamps Cutoff By Kate Randall, February 02, 2016
Imperialism’s Migration Agenda: Who is Funding the Refugees Transport into Europe? By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, February 02, 2016
Institutionalized Racism in Israel By Stephen Lendman, February 01, 2016
‘An Arab is an Arab’ By Jonathan Ofir, February 01, 2016
Why Anti-Refugee Policies in Denmark? By Jan Oberg, February 01, 2016
John Whitaker, executive director of Midwest Food Bank, carries a case of water that was donated to Flint residents on January 27. CREDIT: AP Photo/Darron Cummings
Michigan Officials Quietly Gave Bottled Water To State Employees Months Before Flint Residents By Bryce Covert, January 30, 2016
Attacks on US Public Workers and Unions Intensify By Dr. Jack Rasmus, January 30, 2016
Denmark, Decency and Decay By Jan Oberg, January 29, 2016
While Flint Was Being Poisoned, State Workers “Quietly” Provided Water Coolers By Common Dreams, January 29, 2016
David Cameron addresses the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester Getty Images
Cameron’s Attack on Migrants Spearheads Appeal to Far Right in the UK By Julie Hyland, January 29, 2016