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.
Corporate “Labor Reform”: Proposals to Maximize Workplace Bullying By Prof. James Petras, July 13, 2014
Jordan Kingdom of Shadows and Submissiveness By Andre Vltchek, July 12, 2014
Labor Rights in America: The Union vs. Corporate Showdown Has Officially Begun By Shamus Cooke, July 11, 2014
Massive Water Shutoffs in Detroit. Police Arrest Protesters By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 11, 2014
A World Beyond Capitalism? The Commons as a Fount of Hope By Richard Swift, July 10, 2014
Detroit Water Shutoffs Hit Families, Ill and Elderly Residents By World Socialist Web Site, July 10, 2014
Israel’s “Blood Diamonds” Boost Jeweller Profits as Gaza Bleeds By Sean Clinton, July 09, 2014
The Veterans of America’s Wars: What Happens to U.S. Cannon Fodder? By Prof. Bill Quigley, July 08, 2014
Detroit Urges National Effort to Defeat Banks, Privatization By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 08, 2014
The Safest and Fairest Way to have a Constitutional Convention in America By Roger Copple, July 08, 2014
Gaza: Exports of Palestinian Goods Challenge the Illegal Israeli Blockade from the Inside By Gaza Ark, July 07, 2014
Mortgage Debt and the Looming Foreclosure Crisis: As the Fed Runs Out of Bullets, Local Governments Are Stepping In By Ellen Brown, July 07, 2014
Positive Thoughts on Dark Times By Prof. James Petras, July 06, 2014
The Human Cost of the FIFA World Cup By T. J. Petrowski, July 05, 2014
Dirty Wars and Football: The Ghost of General Videla By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 04, 2014
Thomas Jefferson: America’s Founding Sociopath By Robert Parry, July 04, 2014
The Story of Detroit, A Modern Parable Chronicling the Betrayal of America. The New Century’s War on America’s Poor and Middle Class By Joachim Hagopian, July 03, 2014
Financial Bubble Implosions. Asset Price Inflation and Social Inequality By Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, July 02, 2014
At the Core of the U.S. Supreme Court, A Cabal of Corporate Hit Men By Glen Ford, July 02, 2014
Does Capitalism Inevitably Produce Inequalities? By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, July 02, 2014
The Privatization of Public Education? California Teachers Take Another Hit from Politicians By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, June 30, 2014
Kiev Is Starting a War to Avoid a Revolution By Olga Shedrova, June 27, 2014
Poverty, Social Inequality and Media Disinformation. In America, Only Billionaires are Newsworthy By Steve Rendall, Emily Kaufmann, and Sara Qureshi, June 27, 2014
“Free Market is the Secret to Happiness” – A Billionaires’ PR Initiative By Chris Young, June 26, 2014
Homelessness in the United States is a Crime of Neo-liberal Imperialism By Danny Haiphong, June 26, 2014
Haiti: Bill Clinton Receives “Lifetime Achievement Award” but Where is the Money for Reconstruction? By Greg Dunkel, June 26, 2014
Water Crisis in Detroit: Putting Corporate Profit Ahead of Human Rights By Blue Planet Project, June 26, 2014
Detroit Violating Human Rights by Turning Off Water Taps, UN says By Press TV, June 26, 2014
Detroit and Iraq: Plundered by the Same Bandits By Margaret Kimberley, June 26, 2014
Evo Morales: “Our Liberation is for the Whole of Humanity”. For a Global Brotherhood Among The People By Evo Morales Ayma, June 26, 2014
Washington’s Militarized Land-Grabs: Targeting the Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota By Patrick Henningsen, June 25, 2014
Canada: New Federally Funded Academic Institute, A Tool to Support the Interests of the Mining Companies By MiningWatch Canada, June 25, 2014
“Organized Capital”: The Corporate CEO as Mafia Don By Gary Engler, June 23, 2014
The Devastating Social and Environmental Impacts of The Keystone TransCanada Tar Sands Pipeline By Josh Burstein, June 23, 2014
Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer: Big Agri Peddles “GMO Gruel” to the Impoverished By Tony Cartalucci, June 21, 2014
Greece: The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism By Prof. James Petras, June 17, 2014
Platinum Mining: Protracted Strike by South African Workers By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 16, 2014
Brazil’s Olympics and World Cup: Mega-Events and the Threat to Public Welfare By David Swanson, June 15, 2014
Brazil: A World Soccer Cup for Corporations By Marta Molina, June 14, 2014
Spiralling Global Private Financial Wealth amidst Poverty and Unemployment By Gabriel Black, June 13, 2014
On Opening Day of the World Cup, Protests continue in Brazil By Rafael Azul, June 13, 2014
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, A Thatcherite Revolution: “Free Trade”, Corporate Plunder and the War on Working People By Colin Todhunter, June 13, 2014
NATO Engineered Conflict Contributes to Slavery and Trafficking. Boko Haram’s Mass Kidnapping of Girls By Dr. Christof Lehmann, June 13, 2014
The Economic-Corporate Oligarchy of the World By Steven MacMillan, June 12, 2014
Brazil on Strike: Class Struggle and the World Cup By Sabrina Fernandes, June 12, 2014
Race, Class and the World Cup in Brazil By Mike LaSusa, June 11, 2014
“Buying Up America”: The Individual Wealth of US Billionaires By James Hall, June 11, 2014
Brazilian Workers Clash with Police on Eve of World Cup By Rafael Azul, June 10, 2014
Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation: “Unity” Engineered by Israel By Jonathan Cook, June 10, 2014
Revolutionary Activism in the 20th Century and Beyond By Derrick O'Keefe, June 10, 2014
Let’s Remove Unemployment By Aleksandar Sarovic, June 09, 2014
The Economic and Social Crisis in Portugal: The Hypocritical Policy Discourse of Prime Minister Pedro Passos By Miguel Urbano Rodrigues, June 09, 2014
Cornell University and the Civil Rights Movement in America By Danny Schechter, June 09, 2014
Global Economic Austerity and the US War Agenda By James Corbett and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 09, 2014
California’s Top-Two Primary Eliminates Third-Party Rivals By Ellen Brown, June 09, 2014
Fake Employment Statistics: More Phantom Jobs Created in America, All In The Wrong Places By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, June 07, 2014
Haiti Nine Years Post-Coup and Canada’s Black Gold By Michael Welch, Roger Annis, and Cynthia McKinney, June 07, 2014
European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate Below Zero By Stefan Steinberg, June 06, 2014
Neo-Colonialism and the Changing Nature of Imperialism in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 05, 2014
UK Aid Money Used by Contractor to Build Houses for the Wealthy in El Salvador By Fatima Hansia, June 05, 2014
The Fall of the American Empire… And What We Can do About It By Joachim Hagopian, June 04, 2014
GMO Agriculture and Dow AgroSciences’ Genetically Modified Soyabeans: Waging War on Peasants By Grain, June 04, 2014
Miners Shot Down: The Marikana Mine Massacre and the Sell Out of South Africans by the Black-Led Regime By Margaret Kimberley, June 04, 2014
The Tragic Fate of American Veterans Seeking Health Care By Mike Prysner, June 03, 2014
Brazil: Workers Struggle Trumps Sports Spectacle By Prof. James Petras, June 03, 2014
North American Economic Integration and the “Big Business Offensive” against Workers and Organized Labor By Chris Schenk, June 03, 2014
Japan’s Economy: Retail Sales Apocalypse leaves Abenomics in Tatters By Mike Whitney, June 02, 2014
How Global Agri-Business Destroys Farming By Colin Todhunter, May 30, 2014
The Rise of the European Right: Reaction to the Neoliberal Right By Prof. James Petras, May 30, 2014
Median CEO Pay in US Tops $10 Million By Andre Damon, May 29, 2014
Hungry for Land: Small Farmers Feed the World – with less than a Quarter of all Farmland By Grain, May 29, 2014
The Resistance Movement in Europe against Austerity By Panagiotis Sotiris, May 26, 2014
How the IMF Destroyed Greece: The Reality of the Greek “Success story”: On Its Way to Become a Third World Country By Aris Chatzistenaou, May 24, 2014
Monsanto and the Bio-Tech Conglomerates: Sowing the Seeds of Famine in Ethiopia By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, May 23, 2014
The New Aristocracy in Britain By Jordan Shilton, May 23, 2014
The Anti-Austerity Movement in the European Union. Collapse of Political Legitimacy, Democratic Processes from Below By Donatella Della Porta, May 23, 2014
Always Low Wages, Anti-Union, More Pollution: The Obama Administration Does the Bidding of Wal-Mart By Bruce A. Dixon, May 21, 2014
Fast-tracking Neo-liberalism in India. Land Takeovers, Privatization, Mass Poverty… By Colin Todhunter, May 21, 2014
South Africa: There’s No Turning Back By Socialist Project, May 19, 2014
Democracy is Not For Sale in the European Union By Colin Todhunter, May 17, 2014