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.
Wealth of World’s Billionaires: $7.3 Trillion By Joseph Kishore, September 19, 2014
War and Reconstruction: Gaza Struggles to Deal With 2.5 Million Tons of Rubble By al Akhbar, September 18, 2014
Sacrificing the Vulnerable, From Gaza to America By Chris Hedges, September 17, 2014
Somalia Facing Famine Despite U.S. Role and Oil Wealth Failure to reach political settlement hinders development and relief By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 16, 2014
Meet The 25 Billionaires Who Control Everything By Blacklisted News, September 14, 2014
Human Rights Hypocrisy: The Canadian Museum for Human Rights By Kimlee Wong, September 12, 2014
Across America, the Campaign to Increase the Minimum Wage By Shamus Cooke, September 12, 2014
Growing Social Inequality in America. Wealth Concentration and Decline in Living Standards By Andre Damon, September 06, 2014
US College Students and Graduates are Buried in Debt: The Quiet War on Students By Devon Douglas-Bowers, September 04, 2014
Organized Labor in America Today. “Workers get the Best Democracy Money can Buy” By Stephen Lendman, September 01, 2014
The United States Is Not a Democracy: From Wall Street to Detroit and Ferguson By Marina A. Sitrin, September 01, 2014
Canada: Working Class Politics and the Contradictions of Social Democracy. Breaking with the NDP? By Michael Hurley and Prof. Sam Gindin, September 01, 2014
The “Humanitarian War” against Libya: How the West Destroys Countries and Creates “Failed States” By Manlio Dinucci, August 28, 2014
Debt, Vaccines and Food as a Weapon: When International Aid is Used for Population Control By Aaron Dykes, August 26, 2014
How the Pentagon Militarized the US Police Force By Benjamin Dangl, August 22, 2014
The Real “Dirty Wars” in the Horn of Africa – “Expiration by Starvation” Sanctioned by the Obama White House By Thomas C. Mountain, August 20, 2014
Anti-Mining Protests in Nicaragua By International Allies Coalition Against Mining in El Salvador, August 15, 2014
Beware Child Protective Services: What Victims, Advocates, and Mandated Reporters Need to Know By Global Research News, August 12, 2014
The De-industrialization of America: “The True U.S. Rate of Unemployment is 23.2%” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler, August 11, 2014
GMO Golden Rice: The Scourge of Asia. Monsanto, Sygenta, Bayer Trigger Disruption of Peasant Economy By Ulson Gunnar, August 10, 2014
Disastrous Financial State of American Households. Result of Unemployment, Low Wages By Andre Damon, August 09, 2014
The Worldwide Destruction of the Family Farm. Wall Street’s Unprecedented Land Grab By Colin Todhunter, August 05, 2014
The Subprime Economy is Back—But It Never Really Left. The Heavy Burden of Household Debt to American Families By JP Sottile, August 04, 2014
Money as Debt: Who Benefits from the Current Monetary System? By Rudy Avizius, July 29, 2014
Devastating Economic and Social Crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana Workers on the March By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 29, 2014
The End of South Africa’s Historical Metalworkers Strike By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 28, 2014
Detroit
Detroit Water Shut-offs Prompts Canadian Solidarity Amid World Crisis By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 28, 2014
Stock Market Tremors and the Financial Bubble Economy. The Failures of Monetary Policy By Andre Damon, July 28, 2014
Economy Revisited. Will Green be the Colour of Money or Life? By Dr. Vandana Shiva, July 26, 2014
Capitalism and Global Poverty: Two Billion Poor, One Billion Hungry By Patrick Martin, July 25, 2014
Collapse of Ukraine Government: Prime Minister Yatsenyuk Resigns amidst Pressures Exerted by the IMF By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 24, 2014
Nearly One Quarter of American Children in Poverty. Anti-Poverty Measures Scrapped under Obama’s “Sequester Budget” By Andre Damon, July 23, 2014
The Cochabamba Declaration: Latin America’s Anti-Imperialist Offensive By Socialist Project, July 22, 2014
The Failures of America’s Foster Care System By Joachim Hagopian, July 19, 2014
Four Years After Cholera Outbreak, UN Secretary General Visits Haiti By Kim Ives, July 16, 2014
Corporate “Labor Reform”: Proposals to Maximize Workplace Bullying By Prof. James Petras, July 13, 2014
Jordan Kingdom of Shadows and Submissiveness By Andre Vltchek, July 12, 2014
Labor Rights in America: The Union vs. Corporate Showdown Has Officially Begun By Shamus Cooke, July 11, 2014
Massive Water Shutoffs in Detroit. Police Arrest Protesters By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 11, 2014
A World Beyond Capitalism? The Commons as a Fount of Hope By Richard Swift, July 10, 2014
Detroit Water Shutoffs Hit Families, Ill and Elderly Residents By World Socialist Web Site, July 10, 2014
Israel’s “Blood Diamonds” Boost Jeweller Profits as Gaza Bleeds By Sean Clinton, July 09, 2014
The Veterans of America’s Wars: What Happens to U.S. Cannon Fodder? By Prof. Bill Quigley, July 08, 2014
Detroit Urges National Effort to Defeat Banks, Privatization By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 08, 2014
The Safest and Fairest Way to have a Constitutional Convention in America By Roger Copple, July 08, 2014
Gaza: Exports of Palestinian Goods Challenge the Illegal Israeli Blockade from the Inside By Gaza Ark, July 07, 2014
Mortgage Debt and the Looming Foreclosure Crisis: As the Fed Runs Out of Bullets, Local Governments Are Stepping In By Ellen Brown, July 07, 2014
Positive Thoughts on Dark Times By Prof. James Petras, July 06, 2014
The Human Cost of the FIFA World Cup By T. J. Petrowski, July 05, 2014
Dirty Wars and Football: The Ghost of General Videla By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 04, 2014
Thomas Jefferson: America’s Founding Sociopath By Robert Parry, July 04, 2014
The Story of Detroit, A Modern Parable Chronicling the Betrayal of America. The New Century’s War on America’s Poor and Middle Class By Joachim Hagopian, July 03, 2014
Financial Bubble Implosions. Asset Price Inflation and Social Inequality By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, July 02, 2014
At the Core of the U.S. Supreme Court, A Cabal of Corporate Hit Men By Glen Ford, July 02, 2014
Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities? By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, July 02, 2014
The Privatization of Public Education? California Teachers Take Another Hit from Politicians By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, June 30, 2014
Kiev Is Starting a War to Avoid a Revolution By Olga Shedrova, June 27, 2014
Poverty, Social Inequality and Media Disinformation. In America, Only Billionaires are Newsworthy By Steve Rendall, Emily Kaufmann, and Sara Qureshi, June 27, 2014
“Free Market is the Secret to Happiness” – A Billionaires’ PR Initiative By Chris Young, June 26, 2014
Homelessness in the United States is a Crime of Neo-liberal Imperialism By Danny Haiphong, June 26, 2014
Haiti: Bill Clinton Receives “Lifetime Achievement Award” but Where is the Money for Reconstruction? By Greg Dunkel, June 26, 2014
Water Crisis in Detroit: Putting Corporate Profit Ahead of Human Rights By Blue Planet Project, June 26, 2014
Detroit Violating Human Rights by Turning Off Water Taps, UN says By Press TV, June 26, 2014
Detroit and Iraq: Plundered by the Same Bandits By Margaret Kimberley, June 26, 2014
Evo Morales: “Our Liberation is for the Whole of Humanity”. For a Global Brotherhood Among The People By Evo Morales Ayma, June 26, 2014
Washington’s Militarized Land-Grabs: Targeting the Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota By Patrick Henningsen, June 25, 2014
Canada: New Federally Funded Academic Institute, A Tool to Support the Interests of the Mining Companies By MiningWatch Canada, June 25, 2014
“Organized Capital”: The Corporate CEO as Mafia Don By Gary Engler, June 23, 2014
The Devastating Social and Environmental Impacts of The Keystone TransCanada Tar Sands Pipeline By Josh Burstein, June 23, 2014
Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer: Big Agri Peddles “GMO Gruel” to the Impoverished By Tony Cartalucci, June 21, 2014
Greece: The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism By Prof. James Petras, June 17, 2014
Platinum Mining: Protracted Strike by South African Workers By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 16, 2014
Brazil’s Olympics and World Cup: Mega-Events and the Threat to Public Welfare By David Swanson, June 15, 2014
Brazil: A World Soccer Cup for Corporations By Marta Molina, June 14, 2014
Spiralling Global Private Financial Wealth amidst Poverty and Unemployment By Gabriel Black, June 13, 2014
On Opening Day of the World Cup, Protests continue in Brazil By Rafael Azul, June 13, 2014
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, A Thatcherite Revolution: “Free Trade”, Corporate Plunder and the War on Working People By Colin Todhunter, June 13, 2014
NATO Engineered Conflict Contributes to Slavery and Trafficking. Boko Haram’s Mass Kidnapping of Girls By Dr. Christof Lehmann, June 13, 2014
The Economic-Corporate Oligarchy of the World By Steven MacMillan, June 12, 2014
Brazil on Strike: Class Struggle and the World Cup By Sabrina Fernandes, June 12, 2014