Poverty & Social Inequality

How Billionaires Become Billionaires By Prof. James Petras, September 21, 2022
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.
The Reshaping of Global Agriculture: The WEF Agenda Behind India’s Modi Government’s “Farm Reform” By F. William Engdahl, February 16, 2021
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.
Global Poverty: How the Rich Eat the Poor and the World By Prof. John McMurtry, December 05, 2019
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.
Imperial Recovery and “Disappearing Workers”: Imperialism Expands, Living Standards Decline By Prof. James Petras, May 25, 2018
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.
Food Riots Have Already Begun as Global Grain Prices Skyrocket, Supplies Dwindle By David Gutierrez, October 04, 2008
Will Ordinary People Continue To Have To Pay Unaffordable Rates Of Interest After The Bailout? By Lawrence Velvel, October 02, 2008
Palestinian Economy: From Bad to Wretched By Ramzy Baroud, September 29, 2008
Why a World Food Crisis? By Damien Millet and Eric Toussaint, September 23, 2008
Starvation in Afghanistan By Global Research, September 20, 2008
Impacts of the Financial Crisis: The U.S. Is Becoming an Impoverished Nation By Richard C. Cook, September 19, 2008
The World Bank suddenly discovers 400 more million poverty-ridden people By Damien Millet, September 15, 2008
Ethnic Profiling at Tel Aviv Airport By Omar Barghouti, September 14, 2008
Disaster in Afghanistan By John W. Warnock, September 09, 2008
US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record By Bill Van Auken, September 06, 2008
Global Starvation Ignored by American Policy Elites By Peter Phillips, September 05, 2008
$2.4 Billion in Spending Increases for Venezuelan Public Housing and Universities By Global Research, August 23, 2008
Stagflation is Here, and It is a Weapon of Mass Destruction By Richard C. Cook, August 20, 2008
The Real State of the US Economy By F. William Engdahl, August 02, 2008
America’s house price time bomb By Global Research, July 29, 2008
Latin America’s struggle for integration and independence By Federico Fuentes, July 27, 2008
“Measure of America” report documents social decay of the United States By Patrick Martin, July 20, 2008
Long-term unemployment in the US climbs 37 percent in one year By Andre Damon, July 08, 2008
Ontario: ‘Poverty Reduction’? Reforming without Reforms in a Neoliberal World By John Clarke, June 30, 2008
The Paradoxes of Latin American Development By Prof. James Petras, June 30, 2008
On Humiliation, and Gaza’s Dying Children By Ramzy Baroud, June 22, 2008
The Food and the Energy crisis, fiction or reality? By Rev. Richard Skaff, June 19, 2008
Food Policies Leave People Hungry By Yifat Susskind, June 11, 2008
Egypt: Falling Wages, High Prices and the Failure of an Export-Oriented Economy By Angela Joya, June 02, 2008
Global Food Crisis: Egypt and Sudan Join Forces For Food Security By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, May 27, 2008
The Food Crisis and Latin America By Eduardo Dimas, May 15, 2008
Famine in Afghanistan By Sarah Meyer, May 03, 2008
Amid mounting food crisis, governments fear revolution of the hungry By Bill Van Auken, April 30, 2008
“US, EU responsible for explosive food prices” By Global Research, April 30, 2008
Food Crisis: “The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model” By Ian Angus, April 28, 2008
Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger By Stefan Steinberg, April 24, 2008
Crisis in Food Prices Threatens Worldwide Starvation: Is it Genocide? By Richard C. Cook, April 24, 2008
Anti-Hunger Protests in Haiti By Nazaire St. Fort and Jeb Sprague, April 23, 2008
Racism in America By Global Research, April 07, 2008
Destroying Public Education in America By Stephen Lendman, April 07, 2008
US jobless figures: The specter of a new depression By David Walsh, April 06, 2008
Record Home Foreclosures across America By Sherwood Ross, April 04, 2008
Farmers Seek Defenses Against the Giants of Agribusiness By John Riddell, April 03, 2008
Russia has the world’s second largest number of billionaires By Global Research, April 01, 2008
Exterminating Public Schools in America By Steven Miller and Jack Gerson, March 10, 2008
Iraq: Unemployment Too Becomes an Epidemic By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, February 23, 2008
Public Health Crisis in Iraq: 13 years of sanctions and bombings, an illegal invasion and 5 years of death and destruction By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 16, 2008
Iraq: Children Starved of Childhood By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, February 15, 2008
Ireland: The grab for public land continues By Global Research, February 01, 2008
Collapse of Water, Sewer and Public Health in Gaza By Mohammed Omer, January 30, 2008
UN praises Cuba’s ability to feed people By Will Weissert, November 14, 2007
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance By Stephen Lendman, October 29, 2007