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.
Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe, December 09, 2013
West’s Praise for Mandela is Based On Its Own Interests By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 09, 2013
Mandela’s Dream of Black Power Became a “Neoliberal Nightmare” By James Winter, December 08, 2013
Bipartisan Budget Deal to Scrap Jobless Benefits. Condemning Five Million People to Poverty and Destitution By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, December 08, 2013
From Africa to the Middle East: How Western Powers Profit from Genocide By Keith Harmon Snow, December 07, 2013
Mandela Led Fight Against Apartheid, But Not Against Extreme Inequality By Prof. Patrick Bond, December 06, 2013
Nelson Mandela: Icon of Africa’s Liberation Struggle, Creation of the Real Movers and Shakers of the Global Scene By Mike Molyneaux, December 06, 2013
Whitewashing Human Atrocities in the Middle East and Africa By Keith Harmon Snow, December 05, 2013
“Haiti is Open for Business!”: Government Complicity in Wage Theft by Foreign Factories By Jane Regan, December 05, 2013
Blaming Black People in Detroit By Margaret Kimberley, December 05, 2013
South African Miners’ Strike at Northam Platinum. Mine bosses claim loss in profits while labor unrest continues By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 03, 2013
Social Work – An Institution of the Western Capitalist Empire By Danny Haiphong, December 02, 2013
Hunger in America By Stephen Lendman, November 29, 2013
Israel on Trial: Renowned Historian Testifies at War Crimes Tribunal By Illan Pappé, November 28, 2013
Discovering the Power of People’s History – And Why it is Feared Today By John Pilger, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving in America – Shocking Poverty and New Records for the Stock Market By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, November 28, 2013
Market Euphoria During Troubled Times By Stephen Lendman, November 27, 2013
The Euro Crisis, Contradictions between Countries in the Periphery and Centre of the European Union By Eric Toussaint, November 26, 2013
Decline of the American Empire? Global Configurations of Power, The Swindle Economy and the Criminal State By Prof. James Petras, November 24, 2013
China’s Sweeping Free Market Reforms. Consolidating the Cheap Labor Economy, Devastating Social Impacts By John Chan, November 24, 2013
The US Military and the Philippines By Bill Van Auken, November 21, 2013
Detroit and the Ravages of American Capitalism. Mass Organization and the Intensifying Class Struggle By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 18, 2013
The Healthcare Fix: The Obama Apology That Is Needed By Kevin Zeese, November 17, 2013
Ask J.P. Morgan: When Will You All Go To Jail? By Abby Zimet, November 17, 2013
Mounting anger at Filipino President’s response to Typhoon Disaster By Mike Head, November 17, 2013
Obama’s Healthcare Fix: Millions of Uninsured and Underinsured Americans By Stephen Lendman, November 16, 2013
A Perfect Storm Brewing for Ireland’s Economy By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, November 16, 2013
Institutionalized Theft within the Financial System: Manipulation and Fraud on a Global Stage By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 13, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan: Disaster Follows Disaster in the Philippines By Nicole Colson, November 13, 2013
Ten Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis In America That Will Blow Your Mind By Michael Snyder, November 11, 2013
US-China Relations and the Geopolitics of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) By Jane Kelsey, November 11, 2013
Derivatives are Destroying the Real Economy: Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 10, 2013
Corporate Profits Soar. The Super Wealthy Reinvent American Capitalism By Shamus Cooke, November 10, 2013
Widespread Child Poverty in Germany By Sybille Fuchs, November 10, 2013
The Detroit Bankruptcy Case By Thomas Gaist, November 09, 2013
Workers’ Rights and the Shrinking Minimum Wage. The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage By Mark Vorpahl, November 09, 2013
The HealthCare.gov Website Debacle and the Fraud of Obamacare By Kate Randall, November 08, 2013
India’s Political and Economic Elites: Swiss Banks, Harvard And Mars, In India Everything Is Okay By Colin Todhunter, November 07, 2013
After the Evictions The U.S. Occupy Movement Struggling at the Front Lines of the Crisis By Socialist Project, November 06, 2013
The Brutal Past and Present are Another Country in Secret Australia By John Pilger, November 05, 2013
The Obamacare Website is Down for “Extended Maintenance”: Obama Administration knew Insurance Companies would Drop Millions of Americans By Kate Randall, November 05, 2013
Blaming the Poor for Poverty By Prof. Lawrence Davidson, November 04, 2013
Inequality and the Political Vacuum in the United States – Food Assistance Cut for 48 Million Americans By Andre Damon, November 04, 2013
Economic Coup d’Etat: Debt and Deficit as Shock Therapy By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, November 02, 2013
Mass Poverty and Social Inequality in India: The Devastating Impacts of the Neoliberal Economic Development Model By Colin Todhunter, October 30, 2013
Insurance Companies Profit from Obamacare By James Hall, October 30, 2013
Cutting Food Stamps for Over 45 Million Americans: The Ruthlessness of the American Ruling Class By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, October 29, 2013
Expendable People: Economics, a “Murderous Science” By John Kozy, October 29, 2013
The Inner Crisis of American Society: Civil Liberties, Militarization, Economic Inequality By Jack A. Smith, October 27, 2013
Obamacare Fallout. Medical Privacy Rights are Violated By Stephen Lendman, October 27, 2013
Spain: Social Mobilization of the Left and the Constituent Process in Catalonia By Esther Vivas, October 27, 2013
Poverty in America: US Food Stamp Assistance to be Slashed By Andre Damon, October 26, 2013
The Majority of Public School Students in the Southern United States are Poor By Global Research News, October 24, 2013
Haiti: World Vision’s Targeted Food Program Questioned – Food Aid is “More Negative than Positive” By Haiti Grassroots Watch, October 24, 2013
Top Ten American CEOs Take Home Over $100 Million Each By Andre Damon, October 24, 2013
Haiti’s Apparel Factories: Wage Theft, Sexual Harassment, and Poor Safety and Sanitation Standards By Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 23, 2013
The Coming Grand Bipartisan Bargain: “We’re All Neoliberals Now” By Shamus Cooke, October 22, 2013
Selling Empire: American Propaganda and War in the Philippines By Global Research News, October 22, 2013
The End of Impunity? Indigenous Guatemalans bring Canadian Mining Company to Court By Global Research News, October 21, 2013
Where is “The Left”? “Are We Being Served” By William Bowles, October 21, 2013
“Romanticizing Poverty” Provides Legitimacy to Social Inequality By Global Research News, October 21, 2013
Attending Need, Not Profit: Venezuela’s Experiment with Community Medicine By Ewan Robertson, October 20, 2013
Freedom Rider: Food Stamp Corporate Welfare, “Poverty is Good for Business” By Margaret Kimberley, October 19, 2013
Who Sank Detroit – the “Hip Hop Mayor” or Wall Street? By Glen Ford, October 19, 2013
“Economic Repression”: Obama, Democrats offer Deeper Social Cuts in New Budget Talks By Barry Grey, October 19, 2013
For the Love of Money, “Wealth and Compassion”: Who are the One Percent? By Global Research News, October 19, 2013
Empire Building, the Debt Ceiling, the Budget Deficit and the “Samson Solution” By Prof. James Petras, October 18, 2013
Washington Brinksmanship Resolution. The US Senate Approved the “Reopening of the Government”. What Next? By Stephen Lendman, October 18, 2013
The Homeless in America By Global Research News, October 18, 2013
The Establishment of “Social Enterprises” in Bolivia By Richard Fidler, October 18, 2013
Human Trafficking: The Second Largest Industry in the World By Sara Flounders, October 17, 2013
Even the World Bank Understands: Palestine is being Disappeared By Jonathan Cook, October 17, 2013
Detroit Emergency Manager Eliminates Retiree Health Care Benefits By Jerry White, October 17, 2013
“Reopening the Federal Government”: Debt Default Deal Sets the Stage for Intensified Assault on Social Programs By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, October 17, 2013
“Shutdown”, Deferring a Debt Default. “Done Deal” in the US Senate. But War Goes On, No Winners, Only Losers By Danny Schechter, October 17, 2013
The International Monetary Fund Lays The Groundwork For Global Wealth Confiscation By Global Research News, October 17, 2013
Failure of ObamaCare’s Costly Digital Technocratic Web Portal By Patrick Henningsen, October 16, 2013
Obamacare and the Assault on Workers’ Health Benefits By Kate Randall and Barry Grey, October 16, 2013
Global Wealth and Inequality: Towards a World of Super Rich “Trillionaires” Amidst Mounting Poverty By Paul B. Farrell, October 16, 2013
Debt Ceiling Crisis: Food Stamp Program Shutdown Imminent? By Zero Hedge, October 16, 2013