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.
Race, Class and the World Cup in Brazil By Mike LaSusa, June 11, 2014
“Buying Up America”: The Individual Wealth of US Billionaires By James Hall, June 11, 2014
Brazilian Workers Clash with Police on Eve of World Cup By Rafael Azul, June 10, 2014
Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation: “Unity” Engineered by Israel By Jonathan Cook, June 10, 2014
Revolutionary Activism in the 20th Century and Beyond By Derrick O'Keefe, June 10, 2014
Let’s Remove Unemployment By Aleksandar Sarovic, June 09, 2014
The Economic and Social Crisis in Portugal: The Hypocritical Policy Discourse of Prime Minister Pedro Passos By Miguel Urbano Rodrigues, June 09, 2014
Cornell University and the Civil Rights Movement in America By Danny Schechter, June 09, 2014
Global Economic Austerity and the US War Agenda By James Corbett and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 09, 2014
California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals By Ellen Brown, June 09, 2014
Fake Employment Statistics: More Phantom Jobs Created in America, All In The Wrong Places By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 07, 2014
Haiti Nine Years Post-Coup and Canada’s Black Gold By Michael Welch, Roger Annis, and Cynthia McKinney, June 07, 2014
European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate Below Zero By Stefan Steinberg, June 06, 2014
Neo-Colonialism and the Changing Nature of Imperialism in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 05, 2014
UK Aid Money Used by Contractor to Build Houses for the Wealthy in El Salvador By Fatima Hansia, June 05, 2014
The Fall of the American Empire… And What We Can do About It By Joachim Hagopian, June 04, 2014
GMO Agriculture and Dow AgroSciences’ Genetically Modified Soyabeans: Waging War on Peasants By Grain, June 04, 2014
Miners Shot Down: The Marikana Mine Massacre and the Sell Out of South Africans by the Black-Led Regime By Margaret Kimberley, June 04, 2014
The Tragic Fate of American Veterans Seeking Health Care By Mike Prysner, June 03, 2014
Brazil: Workers Struggle Trumps Sports Spectacle By Prof. James Petras, June 03, 2014
North American Economic Integration and the “Big Business Offensive” against Workers and Organized Labor By Chris Schenk, June 03, 2014
Japan’s Economy: Retail Sales Apocalypse leaves Abenomics in Tatters By Mike Whitney, June 02, 2014
How Global Agri-Business Destroys Farming By Colin Todhunter, May 30, 2014
The Rise of the European Right: Reaction to the Neoliberal Right By Prof. James Petras, May 30, 2014
Median CEO Pay in US Tops $10 Million By Andre Damon, May 29, 2014
Hungry for Land: Small Farmers Feed the World – with less than a Quarter of all Farmland By Grain, May 29, 2014
The Resistance Movement in Europe against Austerity By Panagiotis Sotiris, May 26, 2014
How the IMF Destroyed Greece: The Reality of the Greek “Success story”: On Its Way to Become a Third World Country By Aris Chatzistenaou, May 24, 2014
Monsanto and the Bio-Tech Conglomerates: Sowing the Seeds of Famine in Ethiopia By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 23, 2014
The New Aristocracy in Britain By Jordan Shilton, May 23, 2014
The Anti-Austerity Movement in the European Union. Collapse of Political Legitimacy, Democratic Processes from Below By Donatella Della Porta, May 23, 2014
Always Low Wages, Anti-Union, More Pollution: The Obama Administration Does the Bidding of Wal-Mart By Bruce A. Dixon, May 21, 2014
Fast-tracking Neo-liberalism in India. Land Takeovers, Privatization, Mass Poverty… By Colin Todhunter, May 21, 2014
South Africa: There’s No Turning Back By Socialist Project, May 19, 2014
Democracy is Not For Sale in the European Union By Colin Todhunter, May 17, 2014
Protests Erupt Across Turkey as Death Toll in Soma Mine Disaster Tops 274 By Alex Lantier, May 15, 2014
Conversations: Scholars and Farm Workers By Prof. James Petras, May 14, 2014
Raising the Minimum Wage in America: San Francisco Rides the $15 Wave By Shamus Cooke, May 14, 2014
The Detroit Model: Permanent Rule by the Banks By Jerry White, May 13, 2014
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Rights of Mexican Workers By Richard Roman and Edur Velasco, May 11, 2014
Africa Is Up For Sale By The Acre To The Highest Bidder By Atheling P Reginald Mavengira, May 10, 2014
Washington Sends Military Personnel to Nigeria By Bill Van Auken, May 08, 2014
America’s Hidden Hunger Crisis By Stephen Lendman, May 07, 2014
Iraq Election Sets Stage for Protracted Civil Strife By Jean Shaoul, May 05, 2014
A May Day 2014 Lament for American Labor By Dr. Jack Rasmus, May 02, 2014
The Death of Public Healthcare in Canada? By Justin Panos, May 01, 2014
USA: Bad Jobs Country By Glen Ford, April 30, 2014
Collapsing Standard of Living: Kleptocrats and Militarists Fleece Americans By Prof. James Petras, April 29, 2014
War, Economic Catastrophe and Environmental Degradation. Under the Guise of Progress and Development By Colin Todhunter, April 27, 2014
Forty Years Later, From Dictatorship to Neoliberalism. Portugal as a Model for a New Socialism? By Leila Dregger, April 26, 2014
Economic Development, Poverty and Class Struggle in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 21, 2014
Workers Rights and America’s Labor Movement: The Creation of the Network for Social Justice Unionism (NSJU) By Roshan Bliss, April 21, 2014
The Social Counter-revolution Accelerates in Detroit By Jerry White, April 17, 2014
Health Insurance: Obama Lied About Obamacare, Now Wants Political Lying to Be Legal By Eric Zuesse, April 16, 2014
The Global Money Matrix: The Forces behind America’s Economic Destruction By Dr. Gary Null, April 13, 2014
School Privatization and the Charter School Scam: Corporate America’s Neo-Feudal Assault on Education By Chris Macavel, April 11, 2014
On Eve of Merkel Visit, Massive Anti-Austerity Strike in Greece By Patrick Martin, April 10, 2014
Austerity and the “Economic Destabilization Agenda”. Impoverishing America’s Middle Class By Joachim Hagopian, April 07, 2014
Fathers and Sons: The Invisible Ladder By Prof. James Petras, April 07, 2014
Study Shows Republicans Favor Economic Inequality By Eric Zuesse, April 06, 2014
Unemployment and Low Wage Employment in America: Another Fraudulent Jobs Report By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 06, 2014
Shale Gas Fracking, GMO, Poverty, Bankruptcy: Stop the Corporate Plunder, Flush the TTIP Agreement, Campaign for an “Alternative Trade Mandate” By Colin Todhunter, April 02, 2014
The IMF “Rescue Package”: Western Looting of Ukraine Has Begun By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 01, 2014
Too Poor to Qualify for Subsidies in Obamacare? Yes! By Eric Zuesse, April 01, 2014
In Thailand, A New Kind of Protest. Farmers Facing Bankruptcy By Tony Cartalucci, April 01, 2014
Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA): Elimination of Employer-sponsored Health Insurance By Kate Randall, March 31, 2014
Winning the War of the World By Prof. John McMurtry, March 28, 2014
Staged Impoverishment of the Ukrainian Population. Ukraine Parliament passes Austerity Bill Required by IMF By RT, March 28, 2014
Workers End Strikes in Kenya, Continue Actions in Tunisia, Egypt and South Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 24, 2014
Finance Capital Uses Non-Profits for Privatization Agenda By Danny Haiphong, March 24, 2014
Poverty, Unemployment and Social Distress in the “Rich Countries”. Portrait of a Failed System By Andre Damon, March 24, 2014
EU-Ukraine Trade Deal Paves the Way for Brutal Economic Austerity. IMF to Apply “The Greek Model” By Mike Head, March 22, 2014
The US Housing Market is Still “Flat on its Back” By Mike Whitney, March 22, 2014
Women’s Rights in Africa: Land Reform, Gender Equality and Social Equity By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 17, 2014
The Bitter Taste of IMF “Economic Medicine”: What the US-backed Regime is Planning for Ukrainian Workers By Julie Hyland, March 15, 2014
GMO Agribusiness in India: Grassroots Action against Monsanto, Cargill, Sygenta By Tony Cartalucci, March 14, 2014
The Straits and Strictures of the US Post Office’s “Non Bank Financial Services” By Ellen Brown, March 13, 2014
Agribusiness and the Cycle of Debt: Let Me Tell You About Thailand’s Rice Farmers By Tony Cartalucci, March 12, 2014
No Jobs, No Economy, No Prospects For Peace Or Life By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 10, 2014
Child Poverty, Unemployment, Homelessness: The Role of Social Workers in America By Global Research News, March 08, 2014