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.
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Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech – ‘Who’s Advising This Guy?’ By Michael T. Bucci, April 28, 2016
Refugee Crisis Threatens European Social Fabric: How NATO-linked Think Tanks Control EU Refugee Policy By F. William Engdahl, April 28, 2016
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Debated at United Nations as World Crisis Escalates By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2016
Women Leading Flint Michigan Water Crisis Lawsuit Slain in Twin Killing. Lead Poisoning of Thousands of Children By Gary Ridley, April 26, 2016
The Privatization of Water in Detroit. Massive Water Shut-Offs By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 26, 2016
In the Wake of Ecuador’s Earthquake: “Zero” Humanitarian Aid from the US, Palestine Sends Rescue Team By Telesur, April 22, 2016
Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People By Eric Draitser, April 19, 2016
“Neoliberal Restoration”: Hybrid War Hyenas Tear Brazil Apart By Pepe Escobar, April 19, 2016
Election Campaign 2016: Major Issues Facing African Americans Largely Ignored by both Clinton and Sanders By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 18, 2016
Blanket Student Debt Amnesty Now By Mike Whitney, April 18, 2016
Journey to the End of the Night: The Paris ‘Nuit Debout’ Movement By Gearóid Ó Colmáin, April 18, 2016
The Grim Conditions of Jordan’s Immigration Detention Camps. Blatant Human Rights Violations By Siraj Davis, April 18, 2016
Nauru: A “Processing Centre” and Detention Camp for Refugees to Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 16, 2016
Labor Rights: What Did Quebec Public-Sector Unions Achieve? By Ashley Smith, April 15, 2016
South Sudan, After Independence: “Post Conflict” Famine and Despair By Antony Loewenstein, April 14, 2016
How Hillary Helped Ruin Haiti By Theodore Hamm, April 13, 2016
Life Expectancy Gap between US Rich and Poor Widens By Jerry White, April 12, 2016
EU Turkey Deal to Curb Migration By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 11, 2016
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Venezuela Maduro
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Bill Clinton’s Crime Bill Led to Spike in Black Incarcerations By Abayomi Azikiwe and Press TV, April 10, 2016
The Dirty Secret of Utopia By John Pilger, April 09, 2016
Lithium-ion Batteries: Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners By Mnar Muhawesh, April 08, 2016
Golden Gate Bridge © Robert Galbraith / Reuters
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“Fair Trade” versus “Unequal Trade”. The Markets for Coffee, Bananas and Wheat By Prof. Gavin Fridell, April 07, 2016
Clash of the Ignobles: The IMF, the European Commission and the Greek Bailout Saga By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 07, 2016
Tax Havens: Minority Heaven, Majority Hell By Frank Scott, April 07, 2016
Clinton Opposes Transferring Government Costs Onto Rich People By Eric Zuesse, April 06, 2016
The “Gig Economy”: Another Vicious Attack on Ordinary Working People, Decimating the Middle Class By Mike Whitney, April 06, 2016
Video: Israel Has Demolished Every Home in West Bank Bedouin Village Since Start of the Year By Sheren Khalel, April 06, 2016
Mexican Government Employing Torture in US-Backed Anti-Immigrant Drive By Neil Hardt, April 06, 2016
Trillions Stashed in Offshore Tax Havens By Stephen Lendman, April 05, 2016
European Union Throws Greece and Refugees to the Sharks By Felicity Arbuthnot, April 05, 2016
An IMF Plot, Greece, EU And BREXIT By Jon Kofas, April 05, 2016
For Your Own Good! Embedding Transnational Agribusiness and GMOs into African Agriculture Under the Veil of Philanthropy By Colin Todhunter, April 05, 2016
Trump’s First 100 Days As President By Stephen Lendman, April 03, 2016
Poverty and Social Inequality in Canada: The Debate on Basic Income and Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) By John Clarke, April 01, 2016
French Workers, Youth Defy State of Emergency to Protest Austerity Policies By Anthony Torres, April 01, 2016
Canada: Why Aren’t Conditions of Life for First Nations a National Emergency? By J. B. Gerald, March 30, 2016
A Conspiracy to Keep Wages from Rising. Is This Class Warfare? By Mike Whitney, March 30, 2016
Newly-released Email Details Complicity of Obama’s EPA in Flint Poisoning By James Brewer, March 30, 2016
Officials Stoke Anti-Muslim Hatred Following Brussels Attack By Stéphane Hugues, March 29, 2016
The War on Democracy in Latin America By John Pilger and Edu Montesanti, March 29, 2016
Finalising Cruelty: The EU-Turkey Agreement on Refugees By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 28, 2016
The Refugee Crisis on Samos Island, Greece: Glimpsing the Nightmares to Come under the Turkey-EU Pact By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, March 27, 2016
The Chinese Government’s Phony Anti-poverty Plan By John Ward, March 25, 2016
Nixon’s War on Drugs Began as Strategy to Attack ‘Antiwar Left and Black People’ By Nadia Prupis, March 24, 2016
European Union-Turkey Deal to Expel Refugees Comes into Force By Jordan Shilton, March 22, 2016
US Presidential Campaign: The Undemocratic Power of the Lobbyists aka ‘Influence Pedlars’ By Anthony Bellchambers, March 22, 2016
Australian Youth and Workers Denounce Media and Government Racist Hysteria By World Socialist Web Site, March 21, 2016
Economic Crisis in America: Entire Regions of US Will Remain in Recession until the 2020s. Study By Jerry White, March 21, 2016
American Democracy Struggles To Recover From Betrayal By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 21, 2016
Money, Weapons and Poverty in America By Michael T. Bucci, March 20, 2016
Canada: Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Suicides Exemplify Systemic Crisis By Carl Bronski, March 18, 2016
Reasons for Leaving: Refugee Stories from the Greek Island of Samos By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones, March 18, 2016
American workers
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The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad By Garikai Chengu, March 15, 2016
Millions Join Protests in Brazil Demanding Ouster of Workers Party Government By Bill Van Auken, March 15, 2016
Feeding the Bank Balance or Feeding the World: GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness By Colin Todhunter, March 15, 2016
‘Operation Barbarossa 2’: “Overpopulation” and the Funding of World War III By Peter Koenig, March 14, 2016
Killing Asylum: The Turkish-EU deal on Migrants By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 11, 2016
Europe’s Attack on Refugees Produces Humanitarian Catastrophe By Martin Kreickenbaum, March 11, 2016
Israeli Textbooks for Arab Schools: ‘Bad for Arabs, Bad for Jews’ By Jonathan Cook, March 11, 2016
Palestinians Are Joining the Exodus of Refugees to the EU… By IMEMC, March 09, 2016
Refugee Bloodlines: America and Europe Can’t Be Hypocrites Any Longer By William Hawes, March 09, 2016
Jewish Settlers Social Media Campaign against EU Aid to Palestinian Bedouins By Jonathan Cook, March 09, 2016
Violence on the Factory Farm: How Not to Feed the World By Colin Todhunter, March 08, 2016
The Front National and France’s Working Class By Sebastian Chwala, March 08, 2016
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Leaked Australian Document Reveals Plans for Mass Surveillance of Immigrants By Max Newman, March 07, 2016
The Social Crisis in Detroit. On the Verge of an Urban Rebellion By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 05, 2016
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism By Chris Hedges, March 05, 2016
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left. Neo-Liberal Restoration in Latin-America By Prof. James Petras, March 05, 2016
Victory of Neoliberalism? Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End? By Claudio Katz, March 04, 2016
Poisoned and Marginalised? The Role of Agroecology in Resisting the Corporate Stranglehold on Food and Agriculture By Colin Todhunter, March 04, 2016
European Union Threatens Summary Mass Deportations of Refugees By Alex Lantier, March 04, 2016
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