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.
Haiti: Hooligans Tied to President Martelly Attack Opposition Militants Demanding Higher Wages By Isabelle Papillon, May 06, 2015
Britain’s Election Fit for a Lunatic Asylum: The Complicated Mess that is the UK By Lesley Docksey, May 06, 2015
Massive Payout for US Hedge Fund Chiefs in 2014 By Andre Damon, May 06, 2015
The TTP and TTIP Trade Agreements: “A Dystopian Future in which Corporations Rather Than Elected Governments Call the Shots” By Eric Zuesse, May 06, 2015
Palestine: More Than 11,000 Demolition Orders Pending in West Bank By Middle East Monitor, May 06, 2015
Police Attack Demonstration Against Police Violence in Israel By Chris Marsden, May 05, 2015
Racist Israeli Policies Target Ethiopian Jews By Stephen Lendman, May 05, 2015
Baltimore Workers and Youth Speak Out: “It is a War Zone” By World Socialist Web Site, May 04, 2015
Thousands of Farmers in India Rise up Against Monsanto: Biotech Giant Known for Causing Suicides By Christina Sarich, May 04, 2015
If You’re Black in America, the Rules are Different By Mike Whitney, May 02, 2015
Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor By Prof. James Petras, May 02, 2015
America’s Responsibility for the Global Refugee Crisis By Margaret Kimberley, May 02, 2015
Mediterranean Catastrophes, Impoverished African Migrants: It’s Time for the People of Europe to Stand Up By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, May 02, 2015
Military Police Attack Brazilian Teachers, Leaving Over 200 Injured By Bill Van Auken, May 01, 2015
Hundreds Protest Shooting of Detroit Man by Federal Officer By Shannon Jones, April 30, 2015
Asia’s Agrarian Reform in Reverse: Laws Taking Land Out of Small Farmers’ Hands By Grain, April 30, 2015
Ten Shocking Facts about the Baltimore Protests By Prof. Bill Quigley, April 30, 2015
Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance: Rejecting the Framework of the Oppressor By Ajamu Baraka, April 29, 2015
State of Emergency for the Ruling Class: African American Youth Draw the Line in Baltimore City By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 29, 2015
Thousands of National Guard Troops Occupy Baltimore, Maryland By Jerry White, April 29, 2015
Behind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader By Jan Oberg, April 28, 2015
African, Asian Migrants Dying in Mass in the Mediterranean By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 28, 2015
Gaza’s Bookstores Struggle By al monitor, April 25, 2015
Haiti: What Happened to the $10 Billion in U.S. Aid Pledged After the Earthquake? By Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 24, 2015
EU Steps Up Police and Military Operations against Refugees after Special Summit By Johannes Stern, April 24, 2015
Who Granted The “GMO Evangelists” The Monopoly On Compassion? By Colin Todhunter, April 24, 2015
Land and Resource Grabs: The World Bank’s Long War on Peasants By Tanya Kerssen and Eric Holt-Giménez, April 24, 2015
Swedish Paper Manufacturing Giant Blacklisted for Child Labor Practices By Fatima Hansia, April 24, 2015
Obama, Republicans Push Anti-China Trade Pact By Patrick Martin, April 23, 2015
Sealing Borders: Fortress Europe’s War on Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton Calls For ‘Toppling’ the 1%…While Being Bankrolled by the 1% By Nick Bernabe, April 22, 2015
The Founding Fathers Fought Against Inequality By Washington's Blog, April 22, 2015
Fortress Europe and A Mediterranean Cemetery for Migrants By Prof. Cinzia Arruzza, April 22, 2015
USA: Low-Wage Workers’ Struggles Are About Much More than Wages By Arun Gupta, April 21, 2015
The Mediterranean Sea: A Cemetery for those Seeking Happiness By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey, April 21, 2015
Xenophobia in South Africa: The Apartheid Legacy of Racism and “White Corporate Capitalism” By Garikai Chengu, April 20, 2015
How a $15 Minimum an Hour Wage Helps All Workers By Shamus Cooke, April 18, 2015
Congress Introduces Fast Track Legislation to Help Enact Anti-Consumer Trade Bills By Stephen Lendman, April 18, 2015
US Senate Passes HR 2 Bill: A Historic Attack on Medicare By Kate Randall, April 17, 2015
One and a Half Billion People Live on Less Than $1.25 Per Day By Zaida Green, April 17, 2015
Bank Workers Tell their Bosses: Stop Making Us Sell Shady Products to Poor People By Alan Pyke, April 17, 2015
22-Year Old Commits Suicide at Capitol to Send US Congress a Message: “Tax the One Percent” By Pam Martens, April 17, 2015
Another 400 Refugees Feared Dead in Latest Mediterranean Sea Disaster By Stefan Steinberg, April 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton Announces Presidential Campaign By Andre Damon, April 13, 2015
Greece Makes €450 Million Payment to International Monetary Fund By Christoph Dreier, April 10, 2015
Confronting the Anti-Union “Right to Work” Laws. Oregon’s Pending Legislation to Increase the Minimum Wage By Shamus Cooke, April 03, 2015
Important Strike in Mexico: Farm Workers Paralyze Baja California Farms By Dan La Botz, April 03, 2015
Distributing Land from the Poor to the Rich: The World Bank’s Role in Global Land Grabs By Global Research News, April 02, 2015
Social Crisis in Detroit: Wayne County Facing Massive Tax Foreclosure Affecting Home Owners and Small Businesses By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 31, 2015
“Economic Genocide”: Ukraine Cuts off Payment of Pensions to One Million Senior Citizens in Donbass By Global Research News, March 29, 2015
US House Passes Sweeping New Bipartisan Assault on Medicare By Kate Randall, March 27, 2015
Greece: Fascists At the Gate By Conn Hallinan, March 26, 2015
Empire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa’s Future By Colin Todhunter, March 26, 2015
The Public Value of Public Sector Strikes. Ongoing Strikes at York University and The University of Toronto By Prof. Jeff Noonan, March 26, 2015
Northern Ireland Workers Protest Against Drastic Austerity Measures. The Welfare Reform Legislation By Eugene McCartan, March 26, 2015
Neoliberal Capitalism’s Fatal Flaws: A Call for an Alternative Economic System By Dr. Belinda F. Espiritu, March 26, 2015
Toronto’s Plan to Push Out the Homeless By John Clarke, March 25, 2015
This Is What a McDonald’s Worker Makes: A Fight To Raise Minimum Wage By Global Research News, March 23, 2015
Global Famine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 22, 2015
Cuba – Between a Rock and a Hard Place By Peter Koenig, March 21, 2015
From Nogales, Arizona to Ofer Prison: Witnessing Racism in the American and Israeli Borderlands By Dan Cohen, March 20, 2015
Capital Punishment and the Brutality of Class Rule in America By Kate Randall, March 20, 2015
Wall Street Bonuses at Highest Level Since 2008 Crash By Shannon Jones, March 18, 2015
Poor Farmers Bear The Brunt of Natural Disasters In Developing Countries By Global Research News, March 18, 2015
Fundamental Rifts: Power, Wealth and Inequality in the Arab World By Adam Hanieh, March 17, 2015
Obama and the ‘News’ Media Continue to Falsify About Obamacare By Eric Zuesse, March 17, 2015
The Destruction of Libya, the Destabilization of a Nation. US-NATO Crimes against Humanity By Prof. Henry Francis B. Espiritu, March 16, 2015
The Student Debt Time Bomb: Breaking the Grip of the Predatory Lenders Global Research News Hour episode 96 By Michael Welch, Kéllia Ramares, and Ellen Brown, March 14, 2015
Obama’s Selma Song: America Is Not Racist – It’s Just Ferguson By Glen Ford, March 13, 2015
The Real Reason Walmart U-Turned on Wages By Curt Hopkins, March 13, 2015
Postcard from the End of America: Washington D.C. By Linh Dinh, March 12, 2015
The Paramilitary Occupation of America By Joseph Kishore, March 12, 2015
Capitalism’s Great Indian Con-Trick: Feeding “The Economic Vultures”, While Starving Agriculture By Colin Todhunter, March 12, 2015
Beyond Twelve Years A Slave: What the United States Owes Black America By Paul Street, March 11, 2015
Another Dubious Jobs Report By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 10, 2015
European Union Press Syriza to Deepen its Austerity Program for Greece By Robert Stevens, March 08, 2015
US Orders 7,700 Children Deported Without Court Hearings By Patrick Martin, March 07, 2015
Myanmar “Color Revolution”: Meet Aung San Suu Kyi’s Saffron Mobs By Tony Cartalucci, March 07, 2015
Austerity Strangles Ontario: the Teaching Assistants Strikes in Context By David Bush and Doug Nesbitt, March 07, 2015
Protests in Ireland against Austerity Measures, Political Policing and Imprisonments By Paul Kiernan, March 06, 2015