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.
It’s Personal: How Trump Betrayed Both Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan By David Hearst, December 15, 2017
The Road to Food Sovereignty. Peasant Farming, Not Industrial Food Production By New Internationalist, December 15, 2017
World’s Richest One Percent Capture Twice as Much Income Growth as the Bottom Half By Niles Niemuth, December 15, 2017
Istanbul Summit, More Bark Than Bite. Meeting of Top Officials from Islamic Countries By Stephen Lendman, December 14, 2017
Israel Amps Up Ethnic Cleansing in Order to Further Judaize Jerusalem By Jonathan Cook, December 13, 2017
Destruction of Black Wealth During the Obama Presidency By Ryan Cooper and Matt Bruenig, December 13, 2017
German Politicians Condemn Anti-Israel Protest as “Anti-Semitism” By Dr. Ludwig Watzal, December 13, 2017
Trump Declaration on Jerusalem Unleashes Palestine Solidarity Demonstrations Worldwide By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 13, 2017
The Death Toll Behind Corporate America’s Record Profits By Jerry White, December 13, 2017
It’s Not Simply Jerusalem, It’s All of Palestine By Rima Najjar, December 12, 2017
Trump’s Doomsday Jerusalem Speech By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, December 12, 2017
Why Do They Hate Us? America’s Super-rich Have Taken Nearly 70% of the World’s Wealth Gains Since 2012 By Paul Buchheit, December 12, 2017
Farcical Treasury GOP Tax Cut Analysis By Stephen Lendman, December 12, 2017
Trump White House Preparing Sweeping Attack on the Poor By Patrick Martin, December 12, 2017
Europe, Wake up and Smell the Coffee: Palestine and “Netanyahu’s Breakfast in Brussels” By Hagai El-Ad, December 11, 2017
Conflating Zionism and Judaism Leaves Jewish Students Exposed By Prof. Yakov M. Rabkin, December 11, 2017
Lessons of the Great Depression of the 1930s: Create Jobs by Executive Order By Jeanne Mirer and Prof. Marjorie Cohn, December 11, 2017
Amid “Full Employment,” No Recovery in US Wages By Jerry White, December 11, 2017
Jerusalem: The Red Line for Muslims By Gulam Asgar Mitha, December 10, 2017
UN General Assembly Votes for Palestinians By J. B. Gerald, December 10, 2017
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Capitalism’s War against Life Itself By Phil Rockstroh, December 10, 2017
After Trump’s Jerusalem Move, Media Worry About ‘Violence’–Not Violation of International Law By Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi, December 10, 2017
How Many Palestinians Will the Trump-armed IDF Kill or Injure Today: 20, 200, 2,000? By Hans Stehling, December 10, 2017
Palestinians Paying the Price for US-Israeli Imperial Arrogance By Stephen Lendman, December 09, 2017
Trump and the Plight of East Jerusalem By B'Tselem, December 09, 2017
‘God Is Weeping over Donald Trump’ By eNCA, December 09, 2017
124 Jewish Studies Scholars on Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration By Stephen Lendman, December 09, 2017
Trump Speech on Jerusalem: “Irresponsible and Reckless” By James M. Wall, December 09, 2017
Christian Zionists in America By Hans Stehling, December 09, 2017
Israel Uses Live Fire Against Palestinian Protesters By Stephen Lendman, December 08, 2017
Site Considered for US Embassy in Jerusalem Is Stolen Palestinian Private Property By Institute for Palestine Studies, December 08, 2017
Trump’s “Jerusalem Promise” to AIPAC: Tillerson, Mattis Warned Trump Against Embassy Move By Mark Perry, December 08, 2017
Video: Slavery and NATO’s Libya Legacy By Robin Philpot and RT News, December 08, 2017
Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital Sparks Anger, Protests By Bill Van Auken, December 07, 2017
Can the American Left be Resurrected? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 07, 2017
GOP Plan to Destroy Social Justice in America By Stephen Lendman, December 07, 2017
Confirmed: Trump to Declare Jerusalem Israel’s Capital By Stephen Lendman, December 07, 2017
Trafficking In Desperate Black Africans: Israel, Rwanda, and Libya By Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko and Ann Garrison, December 06, 2017
Trump Tax Cut Plan Will Devastate Public Education By Patrick Martin, December 06, 2017
Violence against Women: Why the UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong By Robert J. Burrowes, December 06, 2017
The Silence of the Empire’s Lambs: Half of our Tax Money Goes down the Rabbit Hole of Military Spending By Philip A Farruggio, December 05, 2017
Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Islamphobic Travel Ban By Stephen Lendman, December 05, 2017
Canada’s Healthcare Funding Falls, Again By Doug Allan, December 05, 2017
No Money for Needy Children’s Healthcare in America By Stephen Lendman, December 05, 2017
The Real Causes of Deficits and the US Debt. Next Phases in Trump Fiscal Strategy By Dr. Jack Rasmus, December 05, 2017
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: Learning from Angerona, Cuba By Nora Fernandez, December 04, 2017
Plunder Capitalism: “A Looting Machine” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 04, 2017
The Colossal GOP Tax Cut Scam Boosted by Overnight Senate Passage By Stephen Lendman, December 03, 2017
Trump’s Unmoored Behavior Must Not be Ignored. Unhinged, Angry and Frequently Incoherent… By The Republican Editorials, December 02, 2017
Margaret Mead: Where Are You Now? By Barbara Nimri Aziz, December 01, 2017
The US Congress Won’t Allow Palestinians To Complain to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Regarding Israel’s Land Theft and Settlements in the Occupied Territories. By James J. Zogby, December 01, 2017
The Dog That Didn’t Bark By Israel Shamir, November 30, 2017
Towards a New Financial Bubble: Departing US Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen Seeks to “Reassure Markets” while Warning of Debt Crisis and Social Inequality By Nick Beams, November 30, 2017
We Will Not be Complicit in Israel’s System of Apartheid By Sawsan Bastawy, November 30, 2017
Privatized Transport: Social Inequalities and the Neglect of Public Transit By James Wilt, November 29, 2017
Hey Landlord… Take a Hike! The Housing Crisis in Dreamland America By Philip A Farruggio, November 29, 2017
Israel to Coordinate with Google, YouTube, to Censor Palestinian Videos of Conflict By IMEMC, November 29, 2017
Israel Plans to Block Arabs from Living in 1,000 Neighbourhoods By Middle East Monitor, November 29, 2017
Unprecedented Wealth Inequality in America: The Hundred Billion Dollar Man By Stephen Lendman, November 29, 2017
Farmers Storm India’s National Capital, Demanding Freedom from Debt and Better Price for Their Produce By Via Campesina, November 29, 2017
Macroeconomics and Social Inequality: A Thanksgiving Letter to Our Wealthiest 1% Americans By Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 28, 2017
The Dark Inevitability of Zionism By Prof. Lawrence Davidson, November 27, 2017
Video: Treatment of Native Americans by Colonialists. Marlon Brando Denounces Fake US History By Marlon Brando, November 27, 2017
Libya Slave Trade Shows How Africans Are Treated as Subhuman By Fred Muvunyi, November 27, 2017
Wall Street Stands to Make a Killing from Building Trump’s Border Wall: Report By Ilana Novick, November 26, 2017
What’s Wrong with the GOP Tax Cut Plan? Transferring Nation’s Wealth to Corporate Predators By Stephen Lendman, November 26, 2017
Trump Wants Welfare in America Ended By Stephen Lendman, November 26, 2017
Israel’s Military Detention of Palestinian Children. Motion against Israel in Britain’s Parliament By Middle East Monitor, November 23, 2017
No Thanks for Thanksgiving Under Trump By Stephen Lendman, November 23, 2017
Robert Mugabe Resigns as President of Zimbabwe By Chris Marsden, November 22, 2017
India’s Health Crisis: State Hospitals’ Neglect Aggravates Crisis in the Clinics of the “All India Institute Of Medical Science” (AIIMS) By Rajat Mishra, November 22, 2017
Nearly 200 Million People Are “Modern Slaves” or Child Laborers By Trévon Austin, November 21, 2017
Trump Administration Threatens Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
The Student Loan racket: Defaulting on Student Loans Can Mean Loss of Jobs By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
More About the Great American Tax Cut Swindle By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
House GOP Tax Cut Swindle: A Huge Tax Hike on Grad Students By Stephen Lendman, November 18, 2017
UN Anti-Nazi Resolution 10 Year Anniversary: Syria, Israel and North Korea Support It, US Adamantly Opposes It By Carla Stea, November 17, 2017
America’s “Killing Fields” in Yemen: Children are Dying, Engineered Starvation, US Enforced Blockade on Food and Medicine By William Boardman, November 15, 2017
Sixty Thousand Fascists March in Warsaw By Clara Weiss, November 14, 2017
Yemen: End Blockade, Avert Famine By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, November 14, 2017