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.
Infant Mortality in Detroit Rivals Many Third World Countries By Global Research News, February 01, 2014
US House of Representatives Votes to Slash $8.7 Billion from Food Stamps By Andre Damon, January 30, 2014
Austerity U: Preparing University and College Students for Precarious Lives By Socialist Project, January 29, 2014
How Junk Economists Help The Rich Impoverish The Working Class By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 29, 2014
Privatization in the Name of the Ruling Elites. The Assault on Public Education By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, January 28, 2014
America’s Crisis is Rooted in the Fact that the Economy Is Rigged for the Wealthiest By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, January 27, 2014
The Floods of Jakarta: The Poor Are Dying to Make the Rich Richer By Andre Vltchek, January 25, 2014
The Global Plutocracy By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, January 21, 2014
Greece: The EU’s Neoliberal Poster Boy By Global Research News, January 20, 2014
Racism and “Urban Apartheid”. What Drives Gentrification? By Socialist Project, January 20, 2014
From Austerity to Prosperity. Ellen Brown. Why I Am Running for Treasurer of California By Ellen Brown, January 19, 2014
Jordan Valley: Farming Under Occupation – “Settlements and Military Bases Control our Land” By Pierre Klochendler, January 16, 2014
NAFTA’s Deplorable Legacy By Stephen Lendman, January 13, 2014
Job Exclusion in America: What Caused the Crash In the Labor Participation Rate? By Washington's Blog, January 12, 2014
Towards the Privatization of Public Education in America. Imposing a Corporate Culture By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer, January 11, 2014
Alleged Economic Recovery: No Jobs For Americans By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 11, 2014
The Budget Deal and Neoliberalism: The U.S. and the South African Connection By Ajamu Baraka, January 10, 2014
Obama’s Phony Campaign Against Inequality By Andre Damon, January 10, 2014
The Neoliberal Restructuring of Greece. Causes of the Crisis and the Austerity Response. By Andreas Bieler, January 10, 2014
Obama, the Great Dis-Equalizer By Glen Ford, January 09, 2014
Obama’s Cheap-Labor “Promise Zone” Fraud By Barry Grey, January 09, 2014
Water Privatization Overlooked as Factor in Egypt’s Revolt By Karen Piper, January 06, 2014
What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America By Michael Parenti, January 06, 2014
Cambodian Police Open Fire at Garment Workers Protest, Killing Four By Richard Smallteacher, January 06, 2014
In India, a Spectre for Us All, and a Resistance Coming By John Pilger, January 06, 2014
Social Inequality and the Impacts of Austerity Budgets: Nearly Half of US Public School Children are Poor By Kate Randall, January 06, 2014
Changing the Political and Economic Environment: The Tasks of the People-Powered Movement for 2014 By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, January 06, 2014
The Left after The Failure of Obamacare By Shamus Cooke, January 05, 2014
The Case of the Missing Economic Recovery By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 04, 2014
The Economic and Social Crisis in Spain. “They Want to Make Poverty Normal” By Esther Vivas, January 04, 2014
The Roots of the Crisis in South Sudan, Opening Salvos of the Arab Spring By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, January 02, 2014
Neoliberalism and the End of Shorter Work Hours By Christoph Hermann, January 02, 2014
Deregulating and Privatizing Postal Services in Europe By Christoph Hermann, January 01, 2014
2014 Will Bring More Social Collapse By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 30, 2013
US Veterans Face Economic and Physical Hardship By John Rowe, December 29, 2013
Wall Street Pirates of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico’s Public Pension System Teetering on Collapse as Retired School Teacher’s Face Cuts By Timothy Alexander Guzman, December 23, 2013
The Federal Reserve: 100 Years of “Financial Terrorism” By Stephen Lendman, December 23, 2013
Britain’s Youth Unemployment Crisis By Joe Mount, December 22, 2013
Maoist Insurgency Spreads to Over 40% of India. Mass Poverty and Delhi’s Embrace of Corporate Neoliberalism Fuels Social Uprising By Asad Ismi, December 20, 2013
Globalization: The Fast Track To Nowhere By Colin Todhunter, December 19, 2013
South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Land Reforms By Harold Green, December 19, 2013
“Lie of the Year” Award: And the Winner is Barack Obama By RT, December 14, 2013
The Detroit “Bankruptcy” Distracts from Attack on Constitution: The Unelected “Czar of Detroit”: By William Boardman, December 14, 2013
Venezuelan v. US Budget Priorities By Stephen Lendman, December 13, 2013
Neoliberalism in the Post-Apartheid Era: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela and the IMF By Prof. Patrick Bond, December 13, 2013
Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured – But Not His Legacy By John Pilger, December 11, 2013
The Economic Recovery is a “Statistical Illusion”: More Misleading Official Employment Figures By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 11, 2013
‘Struggle Is My Life’: Mandela’s Personal and Political Lives were Indivisible By Danny Schechter, December 10, 2013
Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe, December 09, 2013
West’s Praise for Mandela is Based On Its Own Interests By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 09, 2013
Mandela’s Dream of Black Power Became a “Neoliberal Nightmare” By James Winter, December 08, 2013
Bipartisan Budget Deal to Scrap Jobless Benefits. Condemning Five Million People to Poverty and Destitution By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, December 08, 2013
From Africa to the Middle East: How Western Powers Profit from Genocide By Keith Harmon Snow, December 07, 2013
Mandela Led Fight Against Apartheid, But Not Against Extreme Inequality By Prof. Patrick Bond, December 06, 2013
Nelson Mandela: Icon of Africa’s Liberation Struggle, Creation of the Real Movers and Shakers of the Global Scene By Mike Molyneaux, December 06, 2013
Whitewashing Human Atrocities in the Middle East and Africa By Keith Harmon Snow, December 05, 2013
“Haiti is Open for Business!”: Government Complicity in Wage Theft by Foreign Factories By Jane Regan, December 05, 2013
Blaming Black People in Detroit By Margaret Kimberley, December 05, 2013
South African Miners’ Strike at Northam Platinum. Mine bosses claim loss in profits while labor unrest continues By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 03, 2013
Social Work – An Institution of the Western Capitalist Empire By Danny Haiphong, December 02, 2013
Hunger in America By Stephen Lendman, November 29, 2013
Israel on Trial: Renowned Historian Testifies at War Crimes Tribunal By Illan Pappé, November 28, 2013
Discovering the Power of People’s History – And Why it is Feared Today By John Pilger, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving in America – Shocking Poverty and New Records for the Stock Market By Andre Damon and Barry Grey, November 28, 2013
Market Euphoria During Troubled Times By Stephen Lendman, November 27, 2013
The Euro Crisis, Contradictions between Countries in the Periphery and Centre of the European Union By Eric Toussaint, November 26, 2013
Decline of the American Empire? Global Configurations of Power, The Swindle Economy and the Criminal State By Prof. James Petras, November 24, 2013
China’s Sweeping Free Market Reforms. Consolidating the Cheap Labor Economy, Devastating Social Impacts By John Chan, November 24, 2013
The US Military and the Philippines By Bill Van Auken, November 21, 2013
Detroit and the Ravages of American Capitalism. Mass Organization and the Intensifying Class Struggle By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 18, 2013
The Healthcare Fix: The Obama Apology That Is Needed By Kevin Zeese, November 17, 2013
Ask J.P. Morgan: When Will You All Go To Jail? By Abby Zimet, November 17, 2013
Mounting anger at Filipino President’s response to Typhoon Disaster By Mike Head, November 17, 2013
Obama’s Healthcare Fix: Millions of Uninsured and Underinsured Americans By Stephen Lendman, November 16, 2013
A Perfect Storm Brewing for Ireland’s Economy By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, November 16, 2013
Institutionalized Theft within the Financial System: Manipulation and Fraud on a Global Stage By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 13, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan: Disaster Follows Disaster in the Philippines By Nicole Colson, November 13, 2013
Ten Facts About The Growing Unemployment Crisis In America That Will Blow Your Mind By Michael Snyder, November 11, 2013
US-China Relations and the Geopolitics of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) By Jane Kelsey, November 11, 2013
Derivatives are Destroying the Real Economy: Michel Chossudovsky By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 10, 2013