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.
“Hunger Games”: New BBC Reality Game Show Pitting Poor Against Poorer By 21st Century Wire, May 29, 2015
Ben Gurion’s 1948 Letter: The Ethnic Cleansing Policy and Palestinians “Right of Return” By Jonathan Cook, May 28, 2015
Gentrification of US Cities and the Death of Black Communities By Margaret Kimberley, May 28, 2015
Peace, Security and Civil Rights: An Open Letter to President Barack Obama By Anthony Bellchambers, May 27, 2015
US Establishment Shields Killer Cops By Andre Damon, May 27, 2015
Will FIFA, World Football’s Governing Body Suspend Israel By Jonathan Cook, May 27, 2015
Jeffrey Sterling vs. the CIA: An Untold Story of Race and Retribution By Norman Solomon, May 27, 2015
Refusing to Resettle: Australia’s response to the Rohingya Asylum Seekers By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 26, 2015
Africa’s “Second Liberation” against Today’s Neo-Colonialism By Garikai Chengu, May 25, 2015
The Escalation of Global Financial Parasitism By Nick Beams, May 25, 2015
Judge Clears Killer Cop in 2012 Cleveland, Ohio Shooting By Samuel Davidson and Andre Damon, May 25, 2015
The Root Cause of the Migrant Crisis – Putting Profits Before People By Hamza Hamouchene, May 24, 2015
Heading Towards “Financial Maidan” in Ukraine? Inflation, Rampant Unemployment, Human Misery By Stephen Lendman, May 22, 2015
New Zealand: Workers Rights in the Fast Food Industry By Socialist Project, May 22, 2015
Maryland Grand Jury Announces Charges against Six Cops in Killing of Freddie Gray By Nick Barrickman, May 22, 2015
Maquiladora Industry Wages in Central America Are Not Living Wages By Mateo Crossa, May 22, 2015
Freedom Flotilla III Sets Sail Toward Gaza, Carrying Medical Supplies And Solar Panels By Global Research News, May 20, 2015
Only One in Four Workers Worldwide Has a Stable Job By Andre Damon, May 20, 2015
Obama’s Paramilitary Police By Andre Damon, May 19, 2015
Wage Inequality and Income Distribution: Britain is the Most “Unequal Country” in the EU By Global Research News, May 19, 2015
Canada Labor Rights: Fighting for the Rights of Ontario College Workers By Socialist Project, May 19, 2015
“American Dream”, Middle Class? What Middle Class? By Jack A. Smith, May 14, 2015
Israel Seeks in Nepal to Whitewash its Crimes in Gaza By Jonathan Cook, May 13, 2015
The Baltimore Upheaval: On Race and Class in America By Jerry White, May 12, 2015
Europe’s Border Policy is Designed to Push Refugees into the Sea By Rania Khalek, May 11, 2015
European Powers Seek to Bomb Libya to Stop Migrants By Patrick Martin, May 11, 2015
Expropriation of Rural Communities in Mozambique. International Agribusiness and the Struggle for Control of Land and Water By Grain, May 11, 2015
Modern Ukraine RIP (Born 1991- Died 2014) By Tomasz Pierscionek, May 10, 2015
World’s Richest Eighty People Own the same Amount as World’s Bottom Fifty Percent By Eric Zuesse, May 09, 2015
The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz By Mike Whitney, May 08, 2015
Bond Market Sell-off Signals Mounting Financial Crisis By Nick Beams, May 08, 2015
Netanyahu Forms New Racist, Fascist Government By Stephen Lendman, May 07, 2015
Record Number of Internally Displaced People on a Global Scale in 2014 By Niles Williamson, May 07, 2015
Haiti: Hooligans Tied to President Martelly Attack Opposition Militants Demanding Higher Wages By Isabelle Papillon, May 06, 2015
Britain’s Election Fit for a Lunatic Asylum: The Complicated Mess that is the UK By Lesley Docksey, May 06, 2015
Massive Payout for US Hedge Fund Chiefs in 2014 By Andre Damon, May 06, 2015
The TTP and TTIP Trade Agreements: “A Dystopian Future in which Corporations Rather Than Elected Governments Call the Shots” By Eric Zuesse, May 06, 2015
Palestine: More Than 11,000 Demolition Orders Pending in West Bank By Middle East Monitor, May 06, 2015
Police Attack Demonstration Against Police Violence in Israel By Chris Marsden, May 05, 2015
Racist Israeli Policies Target Ethiopian Jews By Stephen Lendman, May 05, 2015
Baltimore Workers and Youth Speak Out: “It is a War Zone” By World Socialist Web Site, May 04, 2015
Thousands of Farmers in India Rise up Against Monsanto: Biotech Giant Known for Causing Suicides By Christina Sarich, May 04, 2015
If You’re Black in America, the Rules are Different By Mike Whitney, May 02, 2015
Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor By Prof. James Petras, May 02, 2015
America’s Responsibility for the Global Refugee Crisis By Margaret Kimberley, May 02, 2015
Mediterranean Catastrophes, Impoverished African Migrants: It’s Time for the People of Europe to Stand Up By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, May 02, 2015
Military Police Attack Brazilian Teachers, Leaving Over 200 Injured By Bill Van Auken, May 01, 2015
Hundreds Protest Shooting of Detroit Man by Federal Officer By Shannon Jones, April 30, 2015
Asia’s Agrarian Reform in Reverse: Laws Taking Land Out of Small Farmers’ Hands By Grain, April 30, 2015
Ten Shocking Facts about the Baltimore Protests By Prof. Bill Quigley, April 30, 2015
Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor By Ajamu Baraka, April 29, 2015
State of Emergency for the Ruling Class: African American Youth Draw the Line in Baltimore City By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 29, 2015
Thousands of National Guard Troops Occupy Baltimore, Maryland By Jerry White, April 29, 2015
Behind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader By Jan Oberg, April 28, 2015
African, Asian Migrants Dying in Mass in the Mediterranean By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 28, 2015
Gaza’s Bookstores Struggle By al monitor, April 25, 2015
Haiti: What Happened to the $10 Billion in U.S. Aid Pledged After the Earthquake? By Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 24, 2015
EU Steps Up Police and Military Operations against Refugees after Special Summit By Johannes Stern, April 24, 2015
Who Granted The “GMO Evangelists” The Monopoly On Compassion? By Colin Todhunter, April 24, 2015
Land and Resource Grabs: The World Bank’s Long War on Peasants By Tanya Kerssen and Eric Holt-Giménez, April 24, 2015
Swedish Paper Manufacturing Giant Blacklisted for Child Labor Practices By Fatima Hansia, April 24, 2015
Obama, Republicans Push Anti-China Trade Pact By Patrick Martin, April 23, 2015
Sealing Borders: Fortress Europe’s War on Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton Calls For ‘Toppling’ the 1%…While Being Bankrolled by the 1% By Nick Bernabe, April 22, 2015
The Founding Fathers Fought Against Inequality By Washington's Blog, April 22, 2015
Fortress Europe and A Mediterranean Cemetery for Migrants By Prof. Cinzia Arruzza, April 22, 2015
USA: Low-Wage Workers’ Struggles Are About Much More than Wages By Arun Gupta, April 21, 2015
The Mediterranean Sea: A Cemetery for those Seeking Happiness By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, April 21, 2015
Xenophobia in South Africa: The Apartheid Legacy of Racism and “White Corporate Capitalism” By Garikai Chengu, April 20, 2015
How a $15 Minimum an Hour Wage Helps All Workers By Shamus Cooke, April 18, 2015
Congress Introduces Fast Track Legislation to Help Enact Anti-Consumer Trade Bills By Stephen Lendman, April 18, 2015
US Senate Passes HR 2 Bill: A Historic Attack on Medicare By Kate Randall, April 17, 2015
One and a Half Billion People Live on Less Than $1.25 Per Day By Zaida Green, April 17, 2015
Bank Workers Tell their Bosses: Stop Making Us Sell Shady Products to Poor People By Alan Pyke, April 17, 2015
22-Year Old Commits Suicide at Capitol to Send US Congress a Message: “Tax the One Percent” By Pam Martens, April 17, 2015
Another 400 Refugees Feared Dead in Latest Mediterranean Sea Disaster By Stefan Steinberg, April 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton Announces Presidential Campaign By Andre Damon, April 13, 2015
Greece Makes €450 Million Payment to International Monetary Fund By Christoph Dreier, April 10, 2015
Confronting the Anti-Union “Right to Work” Laws. Oregon’s Pending Legislation to Increase the Minimum Wage By Shamus Cooke, April 03, 2015
Important Strike in Mexico: Farm Workers Paralyze Baja California Farms By Dan La Botz, April 03, 2015