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.
Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Rose 150% in Major U.S. Cities, Finds Study By Countercurrents.org, March 04, 2021
Small Acts Can Become a Power No Government Can Suppress By Margaret Flowers, March 02, 2021
The Billionaire Syndrome: How Individuals Become Excessively Wealthy By Rod Driver, February 28, 2021
Jovenel Moïse or Freedom? The Struggle for the Soul of Haiti By Michael Welch, Jean Saint-Vil, and Kim Ives, February 28, 2021
Haiti Betrayed: Screening and Discussion By Global Research News, February 26, 2021
Social Inequities in the USA: How this Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable By Prof. Rajan Menon, February 24, 2021
Malcolm X from the Grassroots to the African Revolution By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 24, 2021
India and the Weaponization of Human Rights By Carla Stea, February 21, 2021
‘A Humanitarian Crisis’ in Texas: Cold and Snow Put Millions in Danger. 38 Dead By Counter Current News, February 19, 2021
Struggling for Gender Equality in East Africa: Researches and Experiences By Kester Kenn Klomegah, February 18, 2021
Ontario Lost 355,300 Jobs In 2020, Largest Decline On Record By Financial Accountability Office Of Ontario, February 18, 2021
“New Landlordism”: Vulture Funds Plan to Use the Pandemic to Pillage the Global Economy By Matthew Ponsford and Ruairi Casey, February 17, 2021
The Trouble With Canadian Aid By Yves Engler, February 17, 2021
Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and Other Chocolate Makers Named in Child Slavery Class Action Lawsuit By Olivia Rosane, February 17, 2021
“Bloodsucker Capitalism”: How Big Companies Extract Wealth from Everyone Else By Rod Driver, February 15, 2021
Farmers’ Protest in India: Price of Failure Will be Immense. “The Plan to Radically Restructure Agrifood” By Colin Todhunter, February 07, 2021
Coronavirus Education: Remote Virtual Learning and Teaching from the Margins By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 04, 2021
Dehumanization Through the Dynamics of Racial Discrimination By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, February 04, 2021
Racial Inequality, Institutional Discrimination: The “Great Awokening” in Global and Class Context By Prof. Charles McKelvey, February 03, 2021
Viral Inequality and the Farmers’ Struggle in India By Colin Todhunter, February 01, 2021
“Flowers Die and Children Cry”… during the Pandemic By Philip A Farruggio, January 28, 2021
Biden Administration to Restore Aid to Palestinians, Fix ‘Atrophied’ Relations By Middle East Eye, January 27, 2021
Police Killings in America: Eric Garner’s Mother Says We Must Push for Justice that Her Son Didn’t Receive By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, January 23, 2021
Video: “The New Normal” Documentary By happen.network, January 21, 2021
As Trump Departs, America Is “Anti-Supremacist” at Home but “Pro-Supremacist” for Israel By Rima Najjar, January 21, 2021
About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocent in Yemen By Kathy Kelly, January 21, 2021
‘Stripped to the Bone’: Israel Advances Plan to Cut Off Palestinian Suburb from Jerusalem By Qassam Muaddi, January 21, 2021
“Covid Relief Plan”: Biden Lifts Health Care Plan from Insurance Lobbyists By Andrew Perez and Julia Rock, January 20, 2021
UN Urged to Take Action Against France over ‘Entrenching Islamophobia’ By Rayhan Uddin, January 19, 2021
The Digital-Financial Complex is the True Center of Power: “Is the Goal to Ignite Massive Civil Unrest?” By Ernst Wolff, January 18, 2021
The World Economic Forum (WEF) and the “Jobs Reset Summit”- A New Outrage in Disguise By Peter Koenig, January 12, 2021
Congressional Aid for COVID Victims Takes Lessons from Parliament’s Stingy Aid to Irish in the Great Famine of the 1840s By Dr. Barbara G. Ellis, January 11, 2021
In Diversity We Trust: Joe Biden’s Cabinet Choices By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 06, 2021
2020: Annus Horribilis, The Worst Is Yet to Come? Poverty, Unemployment, Despair By Stephen Lendman, January 04, 2021
Why Lockdowns Don’t Work and Hurt the Most Vulnerable. Bankruptcies, Poverty, Despair By Dr. Joseph Mercola, December 31, 2020
What Time Is It in Lockdown? By Edward Curtin, December 27, 2020
After Trump Blocked UN Inquiry on Racist Violence, NGOs Are Conducting Their Own By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, December 27, 2020
Samos Dreaming: Reflecting on the Life, History and Social Injustice on Greece’s Samos Island By Chris Jones, December 27, 2020
How U.S. Government Paid-Off Its Super-Rich in Order to Pass Its Coronavirus-Relief Laws By Eric Zuesse, December 22, 2020
One-third of Ontario Businesses Report They Will Not Survive the Second Lockdown By Canadian Federation of Independent Business, December 22, 2020
The Brexiteer Elites and Britain’s Patriotic Billionaires: “Making Britain Great Again” (MBGA) By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 21, 2020
A Tribute to Three Great Internationalists. Robert Fisk, André Vltchek and Kevin Zeese By Michael Welch, Peter Koenig, Prof. Richard Falk, and Margaret Flowers, December 20, 2020
Health and Wealth in India – Farmers’ Lives Matter By Colin Todhunter, December 18, 2020
“Unhealthy Americans”. Best Healthcare For the Rich. Highest Child Poverty Among Developed Nations By Stephen Lendman, December 18, 2020
America
The Pandemic’s Christmas Gift. “Ten Dollars in His Pocket” By Philip A Farruggio, December 16, 2020
Trudeau Chooses Big Pharma’s Rights over Health of Billions By Yves Engler, December 14, 2020
48% Of U.S. Small Businesses Fear that They May be Forced to “Shut Down Permanently” Soon By Michael Snyder, December 13, 2020
Video: Rocco Galati on COVID Lockdown Measures. Crimes against Humanity. Lawsuit against Government of Canada By Rocco Galati and Michael Welch, December 13, 2020
Melinda Gates: “We Hadn’t Really Thought Through the Economic Impacts” By Jeffrey A. Tucker, December 11, 2020
Net Worth of US Billionaires Has Soared by $1 Trillion to Total of $4 Trillion Since Pandemic Began By Americans for Tax Fairness and The Institute for Policy Studies, December 10, 2020
Palestinians: Victims of ‘Cancel Culture’ By James J. Zogby, December 08, 2020
Working for the ‘Man’: ‘Getting a Job’ in America By Philip A Farruggio, December 07, 2020
India: Largest Strike in World History : Over 200 Million Workers and Farmers Protest against Poverty and Unemployment Triggered by Covid Lockdown By Global Research News, December 06, 2020
Seeds of Destruction, Globalization of Poverty, Globalization of War: Three Important Books From Global Research Publishers By Global Research News, December 03, 2020
Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction By Stephen Lendman, December 02, 2020
Scientists and Historians Uncover Further Details of Racist 1921 Tulsa Massacre By Abayomi Azikiwe, December 01, 2020
The Great Reject — Of the “Great Reset”. Dystopian Nightmare for All Humanity By Julian Rose, December 01, 2020
The Past Lives On: The Elite Strategy to Divide and Conquer By Edward Curtin, November 30, 2020
Britain’s Class War on Children By John Pilger, November 27, 2020
No Thanks on Thanksgiving During US-Engineered Economic Collapse By Stephen Lendman, November 27, 2020
World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People By Jeremy Loffredo, November 26, 2020
As Palestinian Refugees Face Severe Crisis, Canada Must Show Support for UNRWA By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, November 25, 2020
IMF
The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and the IMF By Peter Koenig, November 19, 2020
“Biggest Monster Rebounds!” COVID “Pandemic” Has Triggered a Global Hunger and Population Displacement. UN Report By Carla Stea, November 15, 2020
Systemic Racial Inequity: Discrimination, Dehumanization and Destruction By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, November 11, 2020
The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 07, 2020
The Corporate Dictatorship of the Very Rich By Nora Fernandez, November 06, 2020
A Little Recognized and Most Pervasive Form of Racism: The Economic Model of “Global Capitalism” By Dr. Robert Rennebohm, November 04, 2020
Shameful Treatment of Refugees on Greek Island: A Snapshot By Prof. Richard Hardigan, November 03, 2020
From One Struggle to Another, Abolition Now! Mumia Abu Jamal By Mumia Abu-Jamal, November 01, 2020
Calling this “Our Democracy” Is Like Slaves Referring to “Our Plantation” By Frank Scott, October 30, 2020
Liquid Capitalism: Everyone Drinks It, Swims in It, Drowns in It By John Stanton, October 28, 2020
Manufactured Pandemic and Economic Collapse a Boon for Billionaires By Stephen Lendman, October 28, 2020
COVID-19 as a Weapon. The Crushing of the Disposable Working Class – by Design By Cory Morningstar, October 25, 2020
US 2020 Economic Collapse a Bonanza for Billionaires By Stephen Lendman, October 23, 2020
Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims Did Not Just Start with Donald Trump By James J. Zogby, October 20, 2020
America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals toward Mass Starvation By Prof. Juan Cole, October 19, 2020
Struggle: The History of the American People (1954-56). Jacob Lawrence at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art By Prof. Sam Ben-Meir, October 16, 2020
Coronavirus: The Trojan Vaccine. A Challenge to Health, and Freedom By Michael Welch, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dr. Meryl Nass, Docs4opendebate, and Peter Koenig, October 16, 2020
30 Straight Weeks: Over One Million Jobless US Workers Apply for UI By Stephen Lendman, October 16, 2020