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.
VIDEO: What Americans can learn from the Euro Crisis By Prof Michael Hudson, May 18, 2012
FINANCIAL MANIPULATION: Unrestrained Stimulus and Draconian Economic Austerity: Two Sides of the Same Coin By Washington's Blog, May 18, 2012
Quebec Government Bludgeons Student Strikers With Emergency Law – But the Struggle Continues By Richard Fidler, May 18, 2012
VIDEO: Home Not So Sweet: Foreclosure & Debt Push Americans to Extremes By Madina Kochenova, May 16, 2012
Homelessness and Despair in New York City By Ali Ismail, May 16, 2012
The Global Economic Crisis: Impoverishing Europe By Thomas Sablowski, May 16, 2012
Beware of Global Strategies of Tension By Tony Cartalucci, May 16, 2012
VIDEO: Spain’s “Indignados” Mobilize Against Austerity By Noah Gimbel, May 15, 2012
Mass protests in Spain mark indignados anniversary By Alejandro López, May 14, 2012
GLOOMY ECONOMIC PROSPECTS: Why U.S. Politicians Are Quiet About Europe’s Meltdown By Shamus Cooke, May 14, 2012
CHICAGO: Don’t Believe the NATO Hype: Alternatives Exist to War, Economic Crises By Dr. Joseph Gerson, May 12, 2012
Haiti to be Fleeced of its Riches by Canadian Corporations By Dady Chery, May 10, 2012
Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts By Global Research, May 09, 2012
VIDEO: Police State Montreal: Brutal Treatment of Protesters By Global Research, May 09, 2012
INDIA’S URBAN SLUMS: Rising Social Inequalities, Mass Poverty and Homelessness By Arun Shrivastava, May 08, 2012
ECONOMIC AUSTERITY IN AMERICA: The Portland Community Begins to Fight Austerity By Shamus Cooke, May 07, 2012
Greek elections reflect mass opposition to austerity. Prelude to a new round of fierce social conflicts By Christoph Dreier, May 07, 2012
Systemic Jobs Crisis in the US By Joseph Kishore, May 05, 2012
Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp By Prof. James Petras, May 03, 2012
In 2012, Brace Yourself For Obama’s Occupy ‘Part Deux’ By Patrick Henningsen, May 01, 2012
Spain’s foreign minister admits economic and social crisis “of huge proportions” By Vicky Short, May 01, 2012
ILO report: Worldwide unemployment over 200 million By Patrick Martin, May 01, 2012
VIDEO: War Without End: Patriots or Profiteers? By Global Research, April 30, 2012
The Meaning of “Austerity Measures” in the Eurozone By Mike Whitney, April 29, 2012
VIDEO: Police Brutality Fuels Fire of Student Anger in Canada By Bernard Desgagné, April 27, 2012
The Middle Class Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s Just Sliding Toward the Bottom By Paul Buchheit, April 27, 2012
Massive Student Upsurge Fuels Major Debates in Quebec Society By Richard Fidler, April 26, 2012
Economic Analysis: Neoliberalism in the Arab World, Rural-Urban Migration and the Destabilisation of Agriculture By Dr. Ali Kadri, April 25, 2012
VIDEO: Egypt Protests: ‘Muslim Brotherhood Tool of CIA’ By James Corbett, April 23, 2012
How The World Bank Destroys the Local Economy: REPORT UNCOVERS WORLD BANK FUNDED LAND GRAB IN UGANDA By Friends of the Earth International, April 23, 2012
COUNTERTERRORISM AND HUMANITARIAN AID: U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving By Linus Atarah, April 22, 2012
WORLD BANK AND WALL STREET SUPPORT LAND GRABBING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES By Grain, April 20, 2012
CANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal By James Cairns, April 20, 2012
CHALLENGING ECONOMIC AUSTERITY. The Student Movement: Radical Priorities By Matthew Brett, April 19, 2012
CYNICAL POLITICAL MANEUVER; Obama Reassures the Rich on his “Buffett Rule” By Barry Grey, April 17, 2012
SOMALIA: FAMINE FOR PROFIT AND THE EAST AFRICAN FOOD CRISIS By Nile Bowie, April 14, 2012
CRACKS IN THE PILLAR OF POWER: Top Financiers Expose Fissures Within the 1% By Kevin Zeese, April 13, 2012
The Obama Economic Recovery: Rhetoric and Reality By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, April 12, 2012
SPENDING ON WEAPONS OF WAR IS THE CAUSE OF THE US BUDGET DEFICIT By Kevin Zeese, April 12, 2012
POVERTY IN OIL RICH NIGERIA: The Ruling Elites Wage Class War on Public Education By Kola Ibrahim, April 10, 2012
Why Campaigning for Democrats Cripples Labor Unions By Shamus Cooke, April 09, 2012
Unemployment in America: Worst Jobs Report in 5 Months … Thanks to Bad Government Policy By Washington's Blog, April 06, 2012
DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IN THE “AMERICAN DREAM”? The “Frog Revolution”, Mounting Social Inequality and the “Super Rich” By Joel S. Hirschhorn, April 06, 2012
East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful By John Pilger, April 05, 2012
BOLIVIA: The Morales government: neoliberalism in disguise? By Federico Fuentes, April 05, 2012
VIDEO: Austerity Suicides: Debt the Ripper Stalks Europe By Tesa Arcilla, April 04, 2012
TOWARDS GLOBAL DISORDER: How the Corporate Rights System Straddles the World By Prof. John McMurtry, April 04, 2012
IT’S TAX TIME: IS IT TIME TO OCCUPY THE IRS? By Danny Schechter, April 04, 2012
VIDEO: Bitter Seeds: The Plight of India’s Farmers By Global Research, April 02, 2012
OBAMA HEALTH CARE LAW: Supreme Court Sets Stage for Legal Assault on Social Programs By Tom Carter, April 02, 2012
TEN MYTHS ABOUT CAPITALISM By Guilherme Alves Coelho, April 01, 2012
US-NATO SPONSORED CRISIS: “Hunger Games” March in the Balkans By Nebojsa Malic, April 01, 2012
UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE US AND CANADA: New Round of Mass Layoffs in North America By Barry Grey, March 31, 2012
US House of Representatives approves plan to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps By Patrick Martin, March 30, 2012
EDUCATION AND THE DEBT CRISIS: Austerity in the Mind Factory By Alan Sears, March 29, 2012
VIDEO: Cocaine Unwrapped: An In-Depth Look at the “War on Drugs” Today By Global Research, March 28, 2012
HEALTH CARE COMPARISONS: BRAVO AMERICA FOR YOUR “UNIVERSAL” HEALTH CARE SYSTEM By Prof. Juan Cole, March 28, 2012
THE “AFFORDABLE CARE ACT”: The Supreme Court Debates the Health Insurance Mandate By Kevin Zeese, March 28, 2012
Amidst the Deepest Slump since the Great Depression, Obama is Touting an “Economic Recovery” By Barry Grey, March 28, 2012
Greek Government Robbed Public Institutions to Complete the Bond Swap By John Ward, March 27, 2012
MEDICARE IN AMERICA: Real Health Care Requires the Repeal of the Insurance Mandate By Kevin Zeese, March 26, 2012
MUNICIPAL DEMOCRATIZATION: A Corporate Versus a People’s City Budget By Shamus Cooke, March 25, 2012
Capitalism: A Ghost Story By Arundhati Roy, March 22, 2012
Up, Up and Away: How Money Power Works Down Under By John Pilger, March 22, 2012
Workers face loss of more than 100,000 jobs as Obama joins attack on postal service By World Socialist Web Site, March 22, 2012
VIDEO: Palestine: A Time To Cry By Rim Banna, March 21, 2012
Curbing Social Inequality through “The Millionaires Tax”? By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, March 21, 2012
Massive Demonstrations Support Quebec Students Striking Against Fee Hikes By Richard Fidler, March 21, 2012
A “Global Hope Plan” to End the Worldwide Financial Crisis By Hon. Paul Hellyer, March 20, 2012
Small Business Owners and Labor in America: The Backbone of the Nation By William Cox, March 19, 2012
Twenty million could lose employer coverage under Obama health care overhaul By Kate Randall, March 17, 2012
Uncertain Future for the Euro: The Plight of the Netherlands. Staggering Unemployment in Spain and Greece By Bob Chapman, March 17, 2012
Rediscovering Poverty. How We Cured “The Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself By Barbara Ehrenreich, March 16, 2012
ELECTIONS 2012: Why Labor’s Rank and File Won’t Campaign for Obama By Shamus Cooke, March 16, 2012
Vanishing Pensions: All Over America Old Age Pensions Are Being Slashed or Eliminated By Global Research, March 14, 2012
SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN AMERICA: Incomes of Top One Percent in US Skyrocket… By Kate Randall, March 13, 2012
Unemployment in the Post-revolutionary Arab World By Dr. Ali Kadri, March 13, 2012
Blood Earth and South Africa’s White Farmers By J. B. Gerald, March 13, 2012
In the Wake of the Durban Climate Talks: State and Market Climate Failures Amplified by Civil Society Failure By Prof. Patrick Bond, March 12, 2012
The Global Financial Crisis is a Global Human Rights Crisis By Danny Schechter, March 11, 2012