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.
Obama’s War Against the First Black Republic By Ezili Dantò, January 29, 2016
Syriza and the Greek Debt Crisis: Austerity Unbroken By Jannis Milios, January 29, 2016
European Governments Step Up Offensive against Refugees By Marianne Arens, January 28, 2016
War and the Destruction of Social Infrastructure in America By Andre Damon, January 28, 2016
Nigeria and Beyond: Revolutionary Change is the Way Out By Kola Ibrahim, January 28, 2016
Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States Aims At Peace, Social Justice and Sovereignty By nsnbc international, January 28, 2016
Haiti: Enough Is Enough, Bring on the Revolution! By Dady Chery, January 28, 2016
Canada: Inadequate Health Care for First Nations and Inuit. “High Risks of Avoidable Deaths” By J. B. Gerald, January 27, 2016
Sammy Younge, Jr. (1944-1966): Murder of SNCC Activist Prompted Anti-War Position By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 26, 2016
Austria Closes its Borders to Refugees By Marianne Arens, January 26, 2016
Job Cuts Mount as Global Economy Falters By Gabriel Black, January 22, 2016
Greece Falls Prey to ECB Financial Diktats and Blackmail By Eric Toussaint, January 22, 2016
Are the US Elites Attempting to Destroy Europe by Triggering A Flood of Immigrants and Refugees? By Robert Bridge, January 20, 2016
Corporate Philanthropism: Who Exactly Benefits Most from the “Global Giving” by Billionaires? By Jon Queally, January 20, 2016
Global Unemployment and the World Economic Crisis: A Bleak ILO Unemployment Report and even Bleaker Projections By Peter Koenig, January 20, 2016
The Flint Water Crisis and the Criminality of American Capitalism By Jerry White, January 20, 2016
Economy for the One Percent: Unprecedented Global Wealth Disparity.The Richest 1% have More Wealth than the Rest of the World Combined. By Stephen Lendman, January 20, 2016
Global Economic Gloom: Major Companies Announce Job Cuts across Europe By Kumaran Ira, January 19, 2016
Martin Luther King Detroit Rally: The Struggle against Racism, Police Violence, War and Injustice By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 19, 2016
Black Friday: Collapse of Financial Markets, Poverty and Unemployment By Stephen Lendman, January 17, 2016
Restoring the Link Between Farmer and Consumer, Challenging the Corporate Hijack of Global Food and Agriculture By Colin Todhunter, January 16, 2016
Poverty in Britain: Cameron Government Rejects EU help for Food and Flood Victims By Jon Danzig, January 14, 2016
How GMO Lobbyists Taught Me “We’re Helping the Poor and Hungry” By Claire Robinson, January 12, 2016
Haiti Blasted Once Again: Earthquake, Famine, Pestilence and Greed By Dady Chery, January 12, 2016
German Media Incites Racist Hysteria By Peter Schwarz, January 12, 2016
Locked Up Refugees from North Africa on Samos Island: “We’d Rather Die Eaten by Fish than Eaten by Worms.” By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, January 11, 2016
The Lottery and Social Despair in America By Andre Damon, January 11, 2016
The Refugee Tragedy and the European Union: The Balance Sheet for 2015 By Martin Kreickenbaum, January 11, 2016
Cholera in Haiti and Africa: The Peacekeepers’ Footprint By Dady Chery, January 10, 2016
Yet Another Fabricated Jobs Report. Rising Real Unemployment in America By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 09, 2016
The Dissolution of the West: The Root Causes of the Economic Crisis By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and James Corbett, January 08, 2016
British Government Racism, Europe’s Shame? The Plight of Refugees and Migrants By Felicity Arbuthnot, January 07, 2016
Ecological Meltdown And Nuclear Conflict: The Relevance Of Gandhi In The Modern World By Colin Todhunter, January 03, 2016
The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Rising Poverty and Social Inequality in India By Colin Todhunter, December 31, 2015
Schizophrenia at the UN: “The Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda”, No More Poverty, No More War… By Carla Stea, December 28, 2015
The Refugee Crisis: One Million People Fled to Europe in 2015 By Andre Damon, December 26, 2015
These Fifteen American Cities Are Destroying Homeless Camps Just Days Before Christmas By Tom Cahil, December 22, 2015
Haiti’s Lead Export: Brazil’s New Slaves By Dady Chery, December 19, 2015
Would GMO Trigger Famine in India? Smears, Misinformation and Depoliticising the Political By Colin Todhunter, December 18, 2015
EU Plans Further Crackdown on Refugees By Martin Kreickenbaum, December 17, 2015
Syriza Government sends Greek Riot Police to Attack Refugee Camp By John Vassilopoulos, December 16, 2015
Detroit: Social Aftermath of the Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in US History. Expropriation, Impoverishment, Collapse of Social Services By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 15, 2015
How Slaves Built American Capitalism By Garikai Chengu, December 15, 2015
Skewed: Income Inequality in America. The American Dream has Gone… By Finance Degree Center, December 14, 2015
Venezuela Election Aftermath: Privatization Looms By Telesur, December 14, 2015
Wealth Inequality: The 1% versus The 99%. Realignment, Repression or Revolution By Klaus Marre, December 14, 2015
Impoverishment of the Middle Class in America: Middle-income Households No Longer The Majority By Andre Damon, December 11, 2015
National League for Democracy (NLD) Leader Suu Kyi holds Transition Talks with Myanmar Military By John Roberts and Peter Symonds, December 10, 2015
The WTO has Impoverished Developing Countries By Kavaljit Singh, December 09, 2015
Venezuela’s Elections: Setting the Record Straight. Hugo Chávez’s Legacy is At Stake on December 6 By Steve Ellner, December 06, 2015
The Fight against Neoliberalism and Britain’s Austerity Measures By Lesley Docksey, December 04, 2015
“Capitalism at Work”: Good-Bye To Western Living Standards By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 02, 2015
Capitalism at Work. Widespread Hardship: “What’s More Important? The Dignity of Women or another Billion Dollars for the Banksters”? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 29, 2015
“The Insourcing of Prison Labor”: Seven US Corporate Household Names Use Prison Labor to Produce their Goods By Kelley Davidson, November 28, 2015
Class, War And David Cameron. “Keep our Country Safe, …Military Action against ISIS” By Colin Todhunter, November 27, 2015
British Austerity: Cutting One’s Own Backyard By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 27, 2015
Corporate Parasites And Economic Plunder: We Need A Genuine Green Revolution By Colin Todhunter, November 25, 2015
In the Aftermath of the Paris Terror Attacks: Global Manhunts, Halting Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 17, 2015
Militarism and Racism: African Leaders Propose A Financial Package to Halt the Flow of Migrants from Africa to Europe By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 17, 2015
Top Swedish, US and Canadian Pension Funds Linked to Brazilian Land Grabs, Displacement of People By Grain, November 16, 2015
Debt Serfdom in America: Spiralling Household Debts, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Student Loans By Liaquat Ali Khan, November 13, 2015
New Socialist Government Keeps Portuguese People Under The “Neoliberal Economic Whip” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 13, 2015
Germany Moves to Seal External Borders against Refugees By Christoph Dreier, November 13, 2015
Malaria in the Asia-Pacific Region By J. Kevin Baird, November 13, 2015
The Re-enserfment of Western Peoples. The Corporate Power Grab Which Eliminates Political Sovereignty By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, November 09, 2015
The Flood of Refugees into Europe: “The New Slave Trade” By Peter Koenig, November 08, 2015
A Scientific Study Shows that in the U.S., Uneducated Whites Are Now Dying Younger By Eric Zuesse, November 04, 2015
Nearly 100,000 Gazans Face Winter in Tents, Animal Shelters By Tasmin news, November 03, 2015
South African Student Protest: Decolonization, Race and Class Politics By Prof. Patrick Bond, November 02, 2015
The Elevation of Paul Ryan as US House Speaker By Patrick Martin, November 02, 2015
Unemployment, Collapsing Infrastructure, An Incompetent Social-political-economic System: America is “On the Road to the Third World” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, October 30, 2015
In this Thursday, June 11, 2015 photo, homeless people and their tents line a canal in Honolulu. Hours after a city crew cleared the banks of the canal, the homeless people that had been living there moved right back to the riverside, leaving some wondering whether the expense of taxpayer money was justified. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
They Were There First, But Now Native Hawaiians Have Nowhere to Live By Jorge Rivas, October 26, 2015
What the ‘Green Revolution’ Did for India. The Passing of Bhaskar Save By Colin Todhunter, October 25, 2015
Black Lives Don’t Matter in Israel By Margaret Kimberley, October 23, 2015
Bernie Sanders, “Democratic Socialism” and the Redistribution of Wealth in America By Greg Guma, October 22, 2015
There Has Never Been an American “Middle Class”. The U.S. Working Class Has Always Been Poor By Alan Nasser, October 21, 2015
World Bank Report Challenges Notions of Declining Poverty in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 20, 2015
Libya: From Africa’s Wealthiest Democracy under Gaddafi, to US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Haven By Garikai Chengu, October 19, 2015
The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left” By Takis Fotopoulos, October 17, 2015
Top 1 Percent Own More Than Half of World’s Wealth By Patrick Martin, October 14, 2015