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 on Social America By Stephen Lendman, April 10, 2013
The Economic and Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism and Class Struggle By Prof. James Petras, April 10, 2013
The Homeless Tunnel: People Who Live Under The Streets Of America By The Economic Collapse Blog, April 10, 2013
Secret FDIC Plan to Loot Bank Accounts By Stephen Lendman, April 09, 2013
Margaret Thatcher and the Triumph of Crony Capitalism: “There is No Alternative” (TINA) By Colin Todhunter, April 09, 2013
“Strong Economic Medicine” Triggers Poverty: Communities across America Feel Impact of Obama’s Sequestration Cuts By Kate Randall, April 09, 2013
Obama defends plan to cut Medicare and Social Security By Andre Damon, April 09, 2013
Chicago Teachers take Action to Oppose the Closure of 61 Public Schools By Global Research News, April 08, 2013
Who Will Save Social Security and Medicare? By Shamus Cooke, April 08, 2013
States Fight Back Against MERS Mortgage Fraud By Washington's Blog, April 08, 2013
Hungry Americans and the American Dream: “Too Big to Fail Too Big to Jail” Banks Trigger Foreclosures, Bankruptcies and Poverty By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 07, 2013
Mounting Unemployment in America, Hundreds of Thousands Drop out of the Workforce By Andre Damon, April 06, 2013
The South also rises: The Poorer Nations: A History of the Global South By Pepe Escobar, April 05, 2013
Demise of Britain’s Welfare State: Largest ever Welfare Cuts. Millions of Families Affected By Paul Mitchell, April 04, 2013
Battleground against Neoliberalism: European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann, April 04, 2013
Public Banking: A Solution to the Economic Crisis? How to Reverse the Tide of Corruption and Private Enrichment By Stephen Lendman, April 04, 2013
Britain’s De-industralization and Privatization: The Economic and Social Legacy of Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady” By Colin Todhunter, April 04, 2013
Avoiding Economic Collapse: A Guide to Complementary Currencies By James Corbett, Paul Glover, and Wayne Walton, April 03, 2013
Worse than the Great Depression: Mass Unemployment, 100 Million Americans Live in Poverty By Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster, April 03, 2013
The Economic and Social Crisis in Greece: Fighting for a New Future By Chris Jones, April 03, 2013
A Curious New York Times Article on Teacher Evaluations By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, April 01, 2013
The Economic and Social Crisis in Britain: Defeating Austerity and the People’s Assembly By Chris Nineham, April 01, 2013
The Two Sides of America’s “Economic Recovery”: Stock Markets and Food Stamps at Record Highs By Kate Randall, March 30, 2013
Obama, Republicans Plot Sweeping Attack on Medicare By Fred Mazelis, March 30, 2013
Ten Potentially Devastating Public Health Threats By Global Research News, March 30, 2013
Cyprus Postmortems: Financial Manipulation Triggers Poverty and Economic Collapse By Stephen Lendman, March 29, 2013
Genetic Engineering, Eugenics and the Ideology of the Rich By Colin Todhunter, March 29, 2013
Criminal Act: The European Union’s Financial Looting of Cyprus By Julie Hyland, March 29, 2013
Poverty in the U.S.A: Nearly 50 Million Americans on Food Stamps By Kate Randall, March 29, 2013
Privatization and Land Grabbing in Spain By Esther Vivas, March 29, 2013
Cyprus Postmortems: Economic Depression is the “New Normal” By Stephen Lendman, March 27, 2013
Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Health in Europe By Lancet, March 27, 2013
Splitting The Sky Remembered: Tribute to a Remarkable Activist By James Corbett and Splitting The Sky, March 26, 2013
US Senate Budget Proposes $975 Billion in Spending Cuts By Kate Randall, March 25, 2013
The Crisis of the European Welfare State By Asbjørn Wahl, March 25, 2013
Chicago Announces Plans to shut 61 Public Schools By Shane Feratu, March 24, 2013
Cyprus: Savage Austerity Measures and Economic Dictatorship By Jordan Shilton and Chris Marsden, March 24, 2013
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, March 23, 2013
The Hidden Face of Austerity: American Corporate Executives Cash In By Andre Damon, March 22, 2013
Fiscal Collapse: US Congress to Make Sequester Cuts Permanent By Andre Damon, March 19, 2013
Greece, Syriza and the Struggle Against Austerity By Socialist Project, March 19, 2013
Haiti “Open for Business”: Sourcing Slave Labor for U.S.-Based Companies By Haiti Grassroots Watch, March 18, 2013
US Sequester Cuts Target Jobs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security By Kate Randall, March 15, 2013
Ireland’s Home Mortgage Crisis: No Debt Relief. The Destruction of Savings and Pensions By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, March 15, 2013
Bipartisan Theatrics and the Obama Budget Crisis: “Deeper Cuts” to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security By Andre Damon, March 13, 2013
South Africa’s Deepseated Economic and Social Crisis By Danny Schechter, March 12, 2013
Hugo Chávez Frías: An Unforgettable and Victorious Permanence By Maximilian Forte, March 11, 2013
The Fall of the House of Europe By Pepe Escobar, March 11, 2013
US Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits, Collapsing Wages By Andre Damon, March 09, 2013
American Austerity: Generously Providing Poverty to the Masses By Global Research and Global Research, March 06, 2013
Challenging the Draconian Politics of Economic Austerity. Is Europe Ripe for Revolution? By Michael Werbowski, March 06, 2013
Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In California? By Dreier Peter, March 06, 2013
America’s Fiscal Crisis: “Sequester Facts” on US Policy Manipulations You Should Know By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, March 06, 2013
The Consumer’s “Dream World”: The Global Shopping Mall By Danny Schechter, March 04, 2013
Collapse of Social Programs in America: Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus Not Taking a Stand Against Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid By Norman Solomon, February 27, 2013
Sequester to Spearhead Historic Assault on US Social Programs By Andre Damon, February 26, 2013
Denouncing Austerity: Mass Demonstrations against Financial Coup in Spain By Jérôme Roos, February 25, 2013
Social Uprising in Slovenia against Neoliberal Austerity Measures By Socialist Project, February 25, 2013
On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization By Bruce A. Dixon, February 22, 2013
Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America By Paul Joseph Watson, February 22, 2013
When You’re Cutting Social Security, ‘Wealthy’ Begins at $25K By Jim Naureckas, February 22, 2013
America the Poor: The Human Consequences of Unlivable Wages By Ralph Nader, February 21, 2013
Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 21, 2013
Imperialism, Unequal Development and Forced Migration By Raúl Delgado Wise, February 20, 2013
Austerity Can’t Solve Crises of Capitalism By Gene Clancy, February 19, 2013
Obama’s State of the Union: Pro-corporate Agenda with Chocolate Covered Rhetoric for the 99% By Shamus Cooke, February 19, 2013
GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter, February 19, 2013
Profiting From Human Misery By Chris Hedges, February 18, 2013
Inequality and American Democracy By Joseph Kishore, February 18, 2013
Bush Was a Total Disaster … Obama Is WORSE By Washington's Blog, February 14, 2013
Detroit Financial Fraud: Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 14, 2013
Besieged, Abused, Ignored: Ethiopian Annihilation Of The Ogaden People By Graham Peebles, February 12, 2013
Trillions for Wars, None For Cancer Stricken Children By Tony Cartalucci, February 11, 2013
Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare By Shamus Cooke, February 10, 2013
Sanctions on Iran Leave 11,000 French Citizens working in the Auto Sector Jobless By Global Research News, February 10, 2013
Knowledge and Public Education in Crisis. “Accelerated Privatization of Global Education” By Sajjad Ali Malik, February 09, 2013
The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese, February 08, 2013
What they Don’t Tell You About the Economy By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, February 08, 2013
Drastic Austerity Cuts: The Great Recession has Smashed Public Services on a State by State Basis By Shamus Cooke, February 07, 2013
US Violating Human Rights of Children, Says UN Committee By Allison Frankel, February 07, 2013