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.
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth By President Evo Morales, May 12, 2010
How Economic Recessions Cause Wars and Revolutions By Shamus Cooke, May 10, 2010
Wealth And Inequality In America: The Rich are getting Richer and the Poor are getting Poorer By Gus Lubin, May 08, 2010
Humanitarian Disaster: Famine, Homelessness and Disease in Haiti’s Earthquake Zone By Laura Flynn, May 07, 2010
The Economic and Social Crisis in Nigeria: The Workers’ Movement By Kola Ibrahim, May 06, 2010
Greece: Poverty and Social Implosion in the Wake of the Financial Bailout By Finian Cunningham, May 05, 2010
Covert Economic Agenda Beneath Immigration Reform By Shamus Cooke, May 04, 2010
Hedge Funds and Equity Firms in India Invest in Microfinance: Profiting from The Poor By Kavaljit Singh, May 03, 2010
Food Security: Gates Foundation, US Treasury and World Bank to the Rescue of Small Farmers By Eli Clifton, May 02, 2010
Celebrating and Struggling This May Day: The Long, Hard Haul at the Vale Inco Strike By Prof. Bryan Evans and Prof. Greg Albo, May 01, 2010
Freeing the World from the Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction By Badriya Khan, April 29, 2010
Israel’s Big and Small Apartheids By Jonathan Cook, April 26, 2010
“Mafianomics”: From “Trickle-down Economics” to outright Financial Fraud By Michael Werbowski, April 22, 2010
Pentagon Continues to Use “Personality Disorder” Discharges to Cheat Veterans out of Benefits By Sherwood Ross, April 21, 2010
The American Workplace: Sweatshop USA By Vi Ransel, April 07, 2010
Venezuela: New Moves to Build Workers’ Power By Federico Fuentes, April 05, 2010
The Maoist Insurgency in India By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 05, 2010
US Economic Crisis: Soaring Rate of Unemployment for African Americans By Aaron Glatnz, April 04, 2010
Latin American and Caribbean Community; Its Challenges By Carmen Esquivel, April 03, 2010
Washington Asserts Colonial-Style Control of Haiti at UN Donors’ Conference By Barry Grey, April 02, 2010
Haiti Watch: Disease Threatens Infants and No Plans to Stop It By Georgianne Nienaber, April 01, 2010
South Africa to Kick Homeless Off Streets before World Cup By Gary Anderson, March 30, 2010
Western Civilization and the Economic Crisis: The Impoverishment of the Middle Class By Andrew Gavin Marshall, March 30, 2010
Child Obesity in America: “Mommy, Mommy! Why Am I Fat?” By David Kendall, March 26, 2010
Fidel Castro: Thoughts on Obama and Health Reform in the United States By Fidel Castro Ruz, March 26, 2010
Selling South Africa: Poverty, Politics and the 2010 FIFA World Cup By Chris Webb, March 24, 2010
Social Inequality in America: Widening Income Disparities. By Vi Ransel, March 24, 2010
VIDEO: Gaza – The March for Freedom By Santiago Bertolino, March 23, 2010
Israel’s ‘No Renting to Arabs’ Policy By Jonathan Cook, March 22, 2010
Haiti’s Earthquake Victims in Peril By Roger Annis, March 22, 2010
The Economic Elite Versus The People of the USA: In our Nation’s History, the Stakes have Never been Higher By David DeGraw, March 21, 2010
Ontario: Driving the Poor Deeper Into Poverty By Liisa Schofield and John Clarke, March 20, 2010
The Tekel Strike in Turkey By Sungur Savran, March 17, 2010
States Begin to Fix Our Prison System By David Swanson, March 05, 2010
Israel is an Apartheid State By Judy Rebick, March 04, 2010
Obama’s Assault on Public Education By Jerry White, March 04, 2010
South Africa: When Liberation Means Enslavement By Finian Cunningham, March 03, 2010
How Obama’s Health Care “Reform” Kills Health Care By Shamus Cooke, March 01, 2010
The Axis of Greed: The Nature and Structure of the Economic Elite By David DeGraw, February 27, 2010
The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America By Shamus Cooke, February 23, 2010
US Super-rich Get Five Times More Income Than in 1995 By Andre Damon, February 22, 2010
US States Slash Medicaid By Tom Eley, February 22, 2010
Globalization Batters Bangladesh By Sara Flounders, February 19, 2010
Africa’s Land and Family Farms – Up for Grabs? By Joan Baxter, February 18, 2010
Imagine Haiti… By Jean Saint-Vil, February 17, 2010
“Economic Terrorism”: The Consequences are Poverty and Mass Unemployment By David DeGraw, February 16, 2010
Human Rights: Scandalous Treatment of Roma in Kosovo By Global Research, February 16, 2010
America, the Land of Inequality By Tom Eley, February 14, 2010
Beyond the World Social Forum By Igor Ojeda, February 14, 2010
Can Capitalism Save Haiti ? By Shamus Cooke, February 12, 2010
The Democrats, the Deficit, and Social Security By Shamus Cooke, February 10, 2010
Palestine: High Price Tag for Settlers’ Eviction By Jonathan Cook, February 09, 2010
Report: Israel Stole $2bn from Palestinian Workers By Jonathan Cook, February 04, 2010
The Day De Klerk Changed the Course of History By F. W. de Klerk, February 02, 2010
Good Morning America: US Public Wakes up to the Destructive Nature of Capitalism By Finian Cunningham, February 02, 2010
New York City: In the Face of Intense Opposition, Mayor Bloomberg Closes 19 Public Schools By Global Research, February 01, 2010
Devastating Impact of Canadian Mining in Honduras By Prof. Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber, January 30, 2010
Members of U.S. Congress Ask President Obama to End the Blockade in Gaza By American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, January 28, 2010
World Social Forum: Talk versus Action. The Tug-of-War Continues By Mario Osava, January 27, 2010
Rule by the Rich By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 27, 2010
Haiti Needs Emergency Relief, not Military Intervention! By Global Research, January 25, 2010
Nine Latin American and Caribbean Countries Meet on Rebuilding Quake-hit Haiti By Global Research, January 25, 2010
Abbas to U.S.: “Negotiate With Israel on our Behalf” By Global Research, January 22, 2010
Disasters are Big Business By William Bowles, January 21, 2010
Profiting From Haiti’s Crisis By Benjamin Dangl, January 20, 2010
America’s Role in Haiti: Sabotage of Relief Efforts? By Li Onesto, January 20, 2010
Bush, Clinton and the Crimes of US Imperialism in Haiti By Patrick Martin, January 19, 2010
France Accuses the US of “Occupying” Haiti as Thousands of Troops Flood in. By Aislinn Laing and Tom Leonard, January 19, 2010
The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco By Danny Schechter, January 19, 2010
The Future of Palestine By Matthias Chang, January 19, 2010
A Lootin’ an’ a Burnin’? Media Disinformation on Haiti By William Bowles, January 18, 2010
Haiti: Humanitarian Aid to Repay an Odious Debt? By Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet, January 18, 2010
VIDEO: The Clintons and Bushes Are Saviors of the Haitian People By Global Research, January 18, 2010
Haiti – The Price of Freedom By Prof. Carolyn Cooper, January 18, 2010
VIDEO: Gaza Freedom March Looking Ahead By Global Research, January 18, 2010
Canada and Haiti: Relief Efforts in the Shadow of Past “Help” By Dan Freeman-Maloy, January 17, 2010
The Lesson of Haiti By Fidel Castro, January 16, 2010
Haiti Needs Help – and a Serious Plan By Teresa Bo, January 15, 2010
Egypt Proceeds With Underground Barrier on Border With Gaza By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, January 15, 2010
What You’re Not Hearing about Haiti (But Should Be) By Carl Lindskoog, January 15, 2010