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.
Can Occupy Save Labor? The People United Will Never Be Defeated By Kevin Zeese, January 26, 2012
The State of the Union address: “A remarkable collection of pro-business nostrums, militarist saber-rattling, and outright lies” By Patrick Martin and Joseph Kishore, January 26, 2012
Drowning In Hypocrisy: War Abroad, Austerity at Home By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 25, 2012
Crisis in America’s Political Landscape By Jack A. Smith, January 24, 2012
America’s Great Divide Between Rich and Poor By Stephen Lendman, January 23, 2012
Economic Collapse amidst a Mini-Recovery By Bob Chapman, January 21, 2012
Occupy Wall Street at a Crossroads By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, January 20, 2012
CANADA: Tax Cuts, Privatization and Deregulation: Is it a Debt Crisis or a Distribution of Wealth Crisis? By Paul Kahnert and Prof. Sam Gindin, January 20, 2012
Wage cuts, Elimination of pensions, Cuts to Benefits: Canadian Labour At The Crossroads? By Doug Nesbitt, January 17, 2012
VIDEO: What Did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Say About War Costs? By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., January 16, 2012
Home Seizures May Jump 25% This Year as U.S. Foreclosures Resume By Dan Levy, January 16, 2012
VIDEO: TOWARDS OUTRIGHT MARTIAL LAW. The NDAA: Just one more link in the chain of tyranny By James Corbett and Stewart Rhodes, January 16, 2012
DEMOCRATIZE BANKING: Occupy the Neighborhood, How Counties Can Use Land Banks and Eminent Domain By Ellen Brown, January 15, 2012
Theory and Practice in the “Occupy Movement” By Shamus Cooke, January 11, 2012
Iraq: A Country in Shambles By Dahr Jamail, January 10, 2012
Manipulating the Figures on US Unemployment: December Payroll Jobs Report By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 08, 2012
VIDEO: Obama’s Arsenal of Doom: Strip Benefits and Buy More Weapons By Global Research, January 08, 2012
The IMF and US African Command (AFRICOM) Join Hands in the Plunder of the African Continent By Nile Bowie, January 06, 2012
Money Power Runs America By Stephen Lendman, January 04, 2012
The Neoliberal Squeeze on Post-Apartheid Democracy: Reclaiming the “South African Dream” By Vishwas Satgar, January 02, 2012
India. The Plight of the Rural and Urban Poor: In a Land of Facades, Mark the first Signs of an Indian Spring By John Pilger, December 30, 2011
Obama Year Three: Continuing His “Rogue Agenda” By Stephen Lendman, December 26, 2011
Privatisation: Leading Canada’s Public Healthcare to the “Free-market Guillotine” By Stefan Christoff, December 25, 2011
Unrelenting Global Economic Crisis: A Doomsday View of 2012 By Prof. James Petras, December 25, 2011
Social Crisis in America: Uniting Occupy and Labor Over Health Care By Shamus Cooke, December 25, 2011
Russia’s Elections. Who is Calling the Shots at the Duma? By Benjamin Schett, December 22, 2011
Destroying the American Dream… By Stephen Lendman, December 21, 2011
50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe By Global Research, December 18, 2011
The Arab Spring and the “Unemployment Trap” By Dr. Ali Kadri, December 15, 2011
Stories from Harlem By Li Onesto, December 14, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Poverty and Rising Social Inequality, Interrogating Democracy in America By Prof. Joseph Tharamangalam, December 13, 2011
Prisoners in their own Land: The Struggle and Resistance of Serbs in Kosovo By Benjamin Schett, December 12, 2011
Occupy is Not Just About Occupying: The Goal is Not to Occupy it is to End Corporate Rule By Kevin Zeese, December 11, 2011
The Destruction of Canada’s Family Farm By Arthur W. Macklin, December 09, 2011
OWS: Reform or Revolution… and the Lessons from Egypt. By Ghada Chehade, December 08, 2011
VIDEO: Occupation Nation: The Militarization of Police By Maria Portnaya, December 07, 2011
No People No Problem: “The Baltic Tigers” False Prophets of Economic Austerity By Jeffrey Sommers and Prof Michael Hudson, December 07, 2011
VIDEO: Italy’s Welfare Minister In Tears Over Austerity Sacrifices By Global Research, December 06, 2011
Using Arable Land for Bio-fuels: Carbon Credits in the ‘Valley of Death’ By Jeremy Kryt, December 06, 2011
VIDEO: The Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loan By Dennis Kucinich, December 03, 2011
War and the Economic Crisis: America’s Military Obsession Leads To Economic Decline By Global Research, December 01, 2011
VIDEO: Audit Reveals Trillions in Bank Bailouts by Federal Reserve By Alan Grayson, December 01, 2011
VIDEO: Police State Canada: From the McDonald Commission to the G20 By James Corbett and Dan Dicks, December 01, 2011
Why Banks Deserve Preferential Treatment While Millions of Homeowners Are Denied Assistance And Are At Risk of Foreclosure? By Washington's Blog, November 29, 2011
US Social Crisis: 25 Million Unemployed and Underemployed By Sherwood Ross, November 27, 2011
Occupy Revolution By Joel S. Hirschhorn, November 22, 2011
VIDEO: War Crimes Exhibition Held in Kuala Lumpur By Global Research, November 20, 2011
Reforming the U.S. Financial and Tax System By Prof Michael Hudson, November 19, 2011
US More Segregated in Rich and Poor Neighborhoods By Barry Grey, November 18, 2011
VIDEO: Former Philadelphia Police Captain Arrested at OWS By Capt. Ray Lewis, November 17, 2011
Elderly and Pregnant Attacked at OWS Protests By Global Research, November 16, 2011
VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Raid on Camp in Zuccotti Park By Marina Portnaya, November 15, 2011
VIDEO: The G20 and Financial Globalization By James Corbett, November 12, 2011
VIDEO: Occupy Maui: Hawaiians Explain Why They Support OWS By Shepard Ambellas, November 10, 2011
In Mexico, a Universal Struggle Against Power and Forgetting By John Pilger, November 10, 2011
The Plight of Precarious Workers in Korea and the Philippines By Prof. Tammy Ko Robinson, November 10, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Leading from behind? By William Bowles, November 10, 2011
The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism By John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, and R. Jamil Jonna, November 08, 2011
VIDEO: Spain’s Stolen Babies: Catholic Church Caught Child Trafficking 300,000 Kids to Sell in Adoption By Global Research, November 08, 2011
Ten Million American Families Sliding Towards Foreclosure By Sherwood Ross, November 08, 2011
Corporations Occupy Fair Trade By Prof. Gavin Fridell, November 07, 2011
The Occupy Movement Needs a Good Fight By Shamus Cooke, November 06, 2011
Jobless and Clueless: America’s Delusional Democracy By Joel S. Hirschhorn, November 06, 2011
The Libya I Once Knew. A Meeting with Muammar Gadaffi By Georges Bourdokan, November 04, 2011
Egypt and the IMF: ‘Topple their debts’ By Eric Walberg, November 04, 2011
Poorest Poor in U.S. Hits New Record By Global Research, November 04, 2011
Organized Labour and the Occupations Movement By Samir Sonti, November 03, 2011
VIDEO: Occupy Nova Scotia: Activists Concerned About Co-optation By Amir Alwani, November 02, 2011
War Is Great for the 1% … But Makes the 99% Poorer By Washington's Blog, November 01, 2011
Global Jobs: Worldwide Downturn in Employment, Social Unrest By Joseph Kishore, November 01, 2011
Ignoring Non-Islamic Culprits in Somalia Famine By Julie Hollar, October 31, 2011
Can Capitalism be Reformed? Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) in a Bind: Doesn’t Want to Mention the S-Word By William Bowles, October 30, 2011
Argentina: Depression, Revolt and Recovery By Prof. James Petras, October 30, 2011
Haiti Humanitarian Disaster: Conditions Declining Sharply in Earthquake Survivor Camps By Roger Annis, October 27, 2011
The Robin Hood Tax: Occupy Movement now Marching Straight Off the Globalist Cliff By Patrick Henningsen, October 26, 2011
VIDEO: Examining the OWS Movement and the War on Libya By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 26, 2011
Social Inequality and the Concentration of Global Wealth: Never have so Few Owned so Much By Joel S. Hirschhorn, October 25, 2011
Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that thousands of home foreclosures are invalid because banks do not have promissory notes By Ethan A. Huff, October 25, 2011
Sixteen Things Libya Will Never See Again… By Disinfo.com, October 25, 2011
White House Announces Mortgage Refinancing Overhaul Through Executive Order By Mike Ludwig, October 24, 2011