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.
Ontario: Doug Ford’s New Poor Laws Replace Basic Income, “A Tiny Survival Stipend for All Low Income People” By John Clarke, August 16, 2018
Taking a Meaningful Anti-war Position: Opposing Bipartisan Warmongering Is Defending Human Rights of the Poor and Working Class By Ajamu Baraka, August 15, 2018
The Iraq Protests and Implications for “Political Stability” By Nagapushpa Devendra, August 14, 2018
Samir Amin: The Workings of Contemporary Capitalism: It Is Imperative to Reconstruct the Internationale of Workers and Peoples By Samir Amin, August 14, 2018
Huge Protests Against Racist ‘Apartheid’ Law Rock Tel Aviv By Steve Sweeney, August 13, 2018
Resigned Knesset Member: Jewish Nation-state Law Is ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ By Mustafa Abu Sneineh, August 09, 2018
Children are Dying, Yemen Humanitarian Crisis “Made in America”. No Liberal Rallies for Yemeni Children By Paul Street, August 09, 2018
Yazidi Slavery, Child Trafficking, Death Threats to Journalist: Should Turkey Remain in NATO? By Uzay Bulut, August 09, 2018
The Crisis in Corbyn’s Labour Party Is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism By Jonathan Cook, August 09, 2018
Disabled People in UK Lead Fight Against Austerity By John Clarke, August 08, 2018
Settlers Destroy 2,000+ Palestinian-owned Trees and Vines, Backed by Israeli Authorities By B'Tselem, August 06, 2018
Coffee and the “Shock Doctrine” in Puerto Rico By John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto, August 06, 2018
South Africa: The Working Class Movement Must be Independent By South African Federation of Trade Unions, August 06, 2018
When Israel Backers Claim to be Anti-racist, One Needs to Ask Questions By Yves Engler, August 06, 2018
Of Course, Medicare For All would increase Federal Spending… By Margaret Flowers, July 31, 2018
Mexico: Violence, Corruption and Inequality – AMLO to the Rescue? By Michael Roberts, July 30, 2018
Each Tomahawk Missile Fired on Syria in April Could Have Fed 1,242 Malnourished US Children for a Whole Year By John Laurits, July 30, 2018
No Matter How Bad You Thought Big-Pharma Was, This Is Worse By Tony Cartalucci, July 29, 2018
Strategy and Conscience: Subverting Elite Power So We End Human Violence By Robert J. Burrowes, July 25, 2018
Corporate Spin: Genetically Modifying the Way to Food Security? By Colin Todhunter, July 24, 2018
Israel: The Ultimate Racist Colony. The Jewish Nation State Law By Dr. Elias Akleh, July 24, 2018
Israeli Parliament Votes to Approve Nation-State Law That Enshrines Jewish Supremacy Over Palestinian Citizens By Adalah, July 23, 2018
Land Allocation in the West Bank – For Israelis Only By Americans for Peace Now., July 20, 2018
Video: From the Freedom Flotilla, Former Israeli Air Force Pilot Calls for a Boycott of Israel By Yonatan Shapira and Dimitri Lascaris, July 19, 2018
Africa: Contradictions between Regional Security and Imperialist Interventions By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 18, 2018
Undocumented Myanmar Migrants in Thailand: Border Capitalism, Disrupted By Prof. Stephen Campbell, July 16, 2018
Haiti Fights On. Rising Fuel Prices Trigger Mass Poverty By Philip Linder, July 13, 2018
The Starving Children of Yemen By Daniel Larison, July 12, 2018
America’s Muslim Ban Is Still Not Enough Bigotry for the Roberts Court By Ryan Suto, July 09, 2018
Reporting Hate Crimes: The Arab American Experience By James J. Zogby, July 09, 2018
Mexico: AMLO to Seek Negotiated Peace in Drug War By Telesur, July 09, 2018
Libya
The Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Sea – The Largest Graveyard in Modern History By Peter Koenig, July 07, 2018
The Sports of Kings By Philip A Farruggio, July 05, 2018
Trump Regime v. Affirmative Action By Stephen Lendman, July 04, 2018
The Cooperative Movement: Cooperatives As a Means to Developing Local Economies and Alleviating Poverty By Amy Zhang, July 03, 2018
MEXICO Elections, July 1: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), Window of Opportunity Against 40 Years of Neoliberalism in Mexico? By Telesur, July 01, 2018
No Migration Without Economic Exploitation. Why are Thousands of Central Americans Fleeing Violence and Economic Devastation? By Black Alliance for Peace, June 28, 2018
US Freezes Aid Funds to West Bank and Gaza By Maan News Agency, June 28, 2018
As in India, US Farmers Caught in Crushing Agribusiness Debt Trap Turn to Suicide in Spiking Numbers By Whitney Webb, June 28, 2018
Attacking the Rights of Workers: The U.S. Supreme Court Hides Behind the First Amendment By Bill Fletcher Jr., June 28, 2018
Neocolonialism and the “Migrant Crisis” By Manlio Dinucci, June 28, 2018
Anti-Muslim Bigotry Is Now US Law By CJ Werleman, June 27, 2018
On Purpose, In Kabul.”121 Bombs per Day on Afghanistan” By Kathy Kelly, June 27, 2018
The Supreme Court Ignores the Reality of President Trump’s Discriminatory Muslim Ban By Cody Wofsy, June 27, 2018
Mexican Elections: US Media Compares López Obrador to Donald Trump By Gregory Shupak, June 27, 2018
Thousands of Refugees Forced Onto Death March Into Sahara Desert By Bill Van Auken, June 27, 2018
Why Do They Flee? By William Blum, June 27, 2018
Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions By Prof. James Petras, June 27, 2018
President Trump’s Muslim Ban. “Islam Hates Us” By Sirine Shebaya and Johnathan Smith, June 24, 2018
Video: The Forgotten 1985 Police Bombing of a Philadelphia African-American Community By The Guardian, June 24, 2018
Refugee Crisis: Manufactured Migrants Are Tools in U.S. Empire’s ‘Grand Chessboard’ By Barrie Zwicker, June 24, 2018
GOP Farm Bill Supports Hunger, Agribusiness and Ecocide By Stephen Lendman, June 24, 2018
Reflections on the Poor People’s Campaign in Michigan By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 23, 2018
Devastating Humanitarian Crisis: Update on the Situation in Hodeidah, Yemen By Norwegian Refugee Council, June 22, 2018
300,000 Vote for Socialists in California Primary By Richard Becker, June 22, 2018
Canadian Doctor Shot by Israelis Lobbies Trudeau to Fund Gaza Hospital Project By Jillian D'Amours, June 21, 2018
Enclosure of Gaza as a “Prison Territory”: High Tech Surveillance Wall to Separate Gaza from Israel By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 20, 2018
The “Thirdworldization” of America: Defunding and Privatization, Draconian GOP FY 2019 Budget Proposal By Stephen Lendman, June 20, 2018
Flashpoints Radio Voices By Ann Garrison, June 16, 2018
Reclaiming the UN’s Radical Vision of Global Economic Justice By Adam Parsons, June 16, 2018
Military Industrial
Video: The Military Industrial Drain By Robert Reich, June 16, 2018
Israel’s Environmental Colonialism and Eco-Apartheid By Ben Lorber, June 15, 2018
Fiction and Reality: The Mountain and the Stone By Kersasp D. Shekhdar, June 13, 2018
Understanding Jewish Power By Philip Giraldi, June 12, 2018
America’s Economy Has been Hijacked: Righting the Wrongs By Philip A Farruggio, June 10, 2018
Peace, Social Justice, The Struggle against War and Militarism: Upholding Black Radical Internationalism By Black Alliance for Peace, June 08, 2018
The US Government Survey on ‘Precarious’ Jobs By Dr. Jack Rasmus, June 08, 2018
Tanzanian Tribe Says Luxury Safari Companies Are Burning Down Their Homes and Stealing Their Land By Ashleigh Atwell, June 07, 2018
What’s at Stake in the Ontario Election? By David Bush, June 06, 2018
Humanitarian Crisis: Thousands of Hurricane Maria Deaths in Puerto Rico. New Study By Stephen Lendman, June 05, 2018
The Canadian Pension Plan: The Deadly Hand of the Market. Investing in Weapons and Fossil Fuel By Judith Deutsch, June 03, 2018
Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer, June 02, 2018
International Migration, From Transit to Integration: A Moroccan Initiative for Community Development By Nathan Park, May 31, 2018
Land Rights in South Africa: The Absence of A Sweeping Land Redistribution Program By Abayomi Azikiwe, May 23, 2018
Socialism Can Save America By Philip A Farruggio, May 15, 2018
Across America, Teachers Lead in the Revolt Against Austerity By Jane McAlevey, May 15, 2018
The Opening of a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem: Full-Fledged Apartheid By Dr. Husam Zomlot, May 14, 2018
Flowers: Symbols of Love in Europe that Bring Food Insecurity to the African Nations that Produce Them By Dr. Birsen Filip, May 13, 2018
Trump Reneged on Pledge to Lower Drug Prices By Stephen Lendman, May 12, 2018
‘Paper Genocide’: Trump’s Political Maneuvers Could Rob Native America of Tribal Sovereignty, Culture, Health Care By Courtney Parker, May 10, 2018