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.
“Investing in Women: Accelerating Progress” By Tina Renier, March 15, 2024
Is China a Communist or a Capitalist Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 15, 2024
International Women’s Day Must be a Radical Call to Action Against Colonial Domination from Haiti to Palestine By Black Alliance for Peace, March 08, 2024
Women’s Day 2024: America’s “Just War” against Afghanistan: Women’s Rights “Before” and “After” America’s Destructive Wars By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 08, 2024
The Digital Revolution of Artificial Intelligence: Beneficial Economic Creative Destruction or Systemic Dehumanization By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay, March 07, 2024
Sudan’s Forgotten Masses Are Dying Every Day of Starvation By Mohammed Amin, March 05, 2024
Rooting the Periphery, Not the Core: White Supremacist Domination in the Caribbean By Michael Welch, Tina Renier, and Jafrik Aayiti, February 29, 2024
What Does Maternal Mortality Rate Tell Us About Contemporary USA? By Bharat Dogra, February 26, 2024
African Americans and the Cold War from Civil Rights to Black Power By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 22, 2024
Cultural Renaissance, Economic Crises and the Struggle Against Fascism, 1919-1945 By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 21, 2024
Appreciative Inquiry: Development Evaluation, The Values Underpinning Research, Learning by Doing, Data Collection By Tina Renier, February 09, 2024
WEF – Davos 2024. The World Is Falling Apart But the Show Must Go On… By Peter Koenig, February 09, 2024
History: Emancipation, the Nadir and Pan-African Awakenings By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 06, 2024
The Hegemonic UN-WEF-NATO Triad: U.N. “Sustainable Development” (SDG 2030) = Endless Wars, Poverty and Famine Worldwide By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 05, 2024
The Ottawa Freedom Convoy 2022 against the Covid-19 “Vaccine” Mandates: Was the Emergencies Act Justifiable? Was Media Accurate? By Michael Welch, February 05, 2024
African Emigration and the United States Civil War By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 05, 2024
Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Resistance History By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 04, 2024
Immigration Ideologies: Ottawa’s Cap on Admission of International Students and Canada’s Housing Crisis By Tina Renier, February 03, 2024
International Students’ Lived Experiences in Canada. Exploitation in the Labour Market By Tina Renier, February 01, 2024
“Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population”: Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of “The Good Club” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 25, 2024
We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite’s ‘Great Reset’: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively? By Robert J. Burrowes, January 25, 2024
Don’t Tax the Rich. End the Fed! By Rep. Ron Paul, January 23, 2024
Reflections on Racism, “Coloniality of Power”, Mal-Development and Contemporary Capitalism By Tina Renier, January 21, 2024
capitalism
The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, The Trillionaires. “Stake Holder Capitalism” and The New World Order By Rick Thomas, January 21, 2024
“Canada’s Foreign Student Surge Prompts Changes and Anxiety”. Opinion Response to a New York Times Article By Tina Renier, January 11, 2024
The Representation of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Politics By Tina Renier, January 10, 2024
Independent Media Tugging the Curtain Hiding the Wizard of Mainstream Corporate Press: The Most Censored Stories of 2023 By Michael Welch, Ryan Cristian, Yves Engler, and Andy Lee Roth, January 06, 2024
Caribbean Black Nationalism: The Problems of Black Self-Rule in the 20th Century Caribbean By Tina Renier, January 04, 2024
Free Zones or Zones of Unfreedom? Debunking National Mythologies of “Happy” Jamaican Call Centre Workers By Tina Renier, December 27, 2023
Ukraine Has Civil Rights Problems that Relegate Russians to Second-class Status – US Expert By Uriel Araujo, December 27, 2023
‘Unprecedented’ Scale of Human Devastation in 2023, Says Red Cross By Aine Fox, December 26, 2023
Stephen Lendman – A Tribute to the “Most Prolific Journalist in Independent Media” By Michael Welch, Stephen Lendman, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Ellen Brown, Peter Phillips, and Rick Rozoff, December 23, 2023
Road to Freedom — One Liberated Apple at a Time. “Feed the People, Eat the Rich!” By Colin Todhunter, December 22, 2023
Video: Planet Lockdown and the Corona Pandemic. The Most Devastating Crisis in Human History. Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 20, 2023
From Colonialism to “Neoliberal Capitalism”: Low Wage “Special Economic Zones”. Integrating Developing Countries into Global Supply Chains: The Case of Jamaica By Tina Renier, December 16, 2023
Women’s Rights and the Dominant Neoliberal Agenda: The Current Global Trajectory Is Far from Sustainable By Tina Renier, December 13, 2023
Global WAR-NING! Geoengineering Is Wrecking Our Planet and Humanity By Prof. Claudia von Werlhof, Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Josefina Fraile, Elana Freeland, Maria Heibel, Claire Henrion, Conny Kadia, Linda Leblanc, and Vilma Rocío Almendra Quiguanás, December 09, 2023
America’s Acts of Economic and Social Warfare Have Killed Millions of People By Centre for Research on Globalization, December 03, 2023
The Bottom 80% Has Gotten Significantly Poorer Since the Pandemic Began, and this Is Creating a “Robin Hood Mentality” All Over America By Michael Snyder, November 20, 2023
Israel’s Systematic ‘De-development’ of Gaza Began with Its Permanent Occupation By Michael Jansen, November 09, 2023
Prior to Current Crisis, Decades-long Blockade Hollowed Gaza’s Economy, Leaving 80% of Population Dependent on International Aid By UNCTAD, November 08, 2023
Israel’s Gaza War: “Situation is Now Catastrophic”. “Nakba is Ongoing” By Centre for Research on Globalization, October 29, 2023
Video: Is It A False Flag? “Wiping Gaza Off the Map”. The Dangers of Military Escalation By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Caroline Mailloux, October 20, 2023
New Book: Crisis in Sri Lanka and the World. Colonial and Neoliberal Origins: Ecological and Collective Alternatives.” By Asoka Bandarage, October 10, 2023
History: The “Penal Colonies” of Palestine. “The Gaza Strip is the Realization of Israel’s Vision of ‘Separation'” By Tanya Reinhart, October 09, 2023
Pakistan: An Economy on the Brink By Asad Ismi, October 05, 2023
Award-winning Writer Dr. Asad Ismi Blames Food Collapse Caused by the West for Starvation of 278M Africans By Belle Carter, October 05, 2023
Sowing the GMO Seeds of Depopulation? By Colin Todhunter, September 23, 2023
Meet the “New Normal”: Manipulation, Impoverishment, Worse than the “Old Normal”. You Are Still the Enemy Within By Colin Todhunter, September 23, 2023
EU-Hymne: „Alle Menschen werden Brüder“ By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, September 22, 2023
EU Anthem: “All men become brothers”. By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, September 21, 2023
Alabama Election Map “Redistricting”: The Erosion of Voting Rights for African Americans By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 21, 2023
Poverty in India: Providing Schools for the Most Marginalized Children in Remote Villages in Uttar Pradesh By Bharat Dogra, September 18, 2023
G20 Aesthetics: Modi’s Brutal Delhi Facelift By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 11, 2023
Nigerian Trade Unions Stage Two-day Strike Amid Economic Crisis By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 11, 2023
The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Past of Homo Sapiens? By Michael Welch, September 10, 2023
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance By Colin Todhunter, September 09, 2023
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Future of AI, The Past of Homo Sapiens? By Michael Welch, September 04, 2023
Video: “Midnight at the Border.” Humanitarian Crisis. Running on Truth. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. By Team Kennedy, September 01, 2023
‘Worse Than the Special Period’: Cuba’s Food Situation More Desperate by the Day By W.T. Whitney Jr., September 01, 2023
A Voice Heard in the Land. Diana Johnstone By Diana Johnstone, August 28, 2023
Ban on Affirmative Action Part of Broader Wave of Racism in Education By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 21, 2023
How to Solve the Boundless Problem of Violence? By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel, August 07, 2023
East Africa Food Insecurity and the Role of AFRICOM By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 25, 2023
Food Insecurity in Africa and the Politics of NATO Expansion. A Global Food Crisis is Looming By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 20, 2023
Impoverishing Ukraine: “Western Political and Business Interests integrated into the Ukrainian State” By Andrea Peters, July 20, 2023
Impoverishing Ukraine: What the US and the EU Have Been Doing to the Country for the Past 30 Years By Andrea Peters, July 18, 2023
America’s Perpetual War: Six Questions By Prof. Joseph H. Chung, July 15, 2023
It’s Time to Dispel the 12 Assumptions That Increase College Debt By Lauren Hathaway, July 13, 2023
‘Humanity in Hypnotic Thrall to a Techno-Industrial God’ By Julian Rose, July 12, 2023
Supreme Court Slams Door on Affirmative Action in Higher Education By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 07, 2023
World Bank Will Continue to Betray Its Mission of Fighting Poverty Under New Director By Jeremy Kuzmarov, July 07, 2023
Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry By Colin Todhunter, July 02, 2023
Historical Analysis of the Global Elites: Ransacking the World Economy Until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ By Robert J. Burrowes, June 24, 2023
Two Hundred Thousand Poverty Linked Deaths in a Year in the USA Call for Urgent Remedial Actions By Bharat Dogra, June 23, 2023
Life Lessons on the ‘Res’: War Pony (2022) By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, June 23, 2023
World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 22, 2023
Video: #Yes, It’s a “Killer Vaccine”: Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 22, 2023
India’s Over 130 Civil Society Organizations and Activists Express Deep Concern at Lack of Transparency in Trade Agreement with EU and Others By Bharat Dogra, June 21, 2023
“How to Take Down the Billionaires” By Emanuel Pastreich and Chuck Fall, June 19, 2023