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.
Splitting The Sky Remembered: Tribute to a Remarkable Activist By James Corbett and Splitting The Sky, March 26, 2013
US Senate Budget Proposes $975 Billion in Spending Cuts By Kate Randall, March 25, 2013
The Crisis of the European Welfare State By Asbjørn Wahl, March 25, 2013
Chicago Announces Plans to shut 61 Public Schools By Shane Feratu, March 24, 2013
Cyprus: Savage Austerity Measures and Economic Dictatorship By Jordan Shilton and Chris Marsden, March 24, 2013
Access to Health Care, Basic Necessities a Matter of Life or Debt By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, March 23, 2013
The Hidden Face of Austerity: American Corporate Executives Cash In By Andre Damon, March 22, 2013
Fiscal Collapse: US Congress to Make Sequester Cuts Permanent By Andre Damon, March 19, 2013
Greece, Syriza and the Struggle Against Austerity By Socialist Project, March 19, 2013
Haiti “Open for Business”: Sourcing Slave Labor for U.S.-Based Companies By Haiti Grassroots Watch, March 18, 2013
US Sequester Cuts Target Jobs, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security By Kate Randall, March 15, 2013
Ireland’s Home Mortgage Crisis: No Debt Relief. The Destruction of Savings and Pensions By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, March 15, 2013
Bipartisan Theatrics and the Obama Budget Crisis: “Deeper Cuts” to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security By Andre Damon, March 13, 2013
South Africa’s Deepseated Economic and Social Crisis By Danny Schechter, March 12, 2013
Hugo Chávez Frías: An Unforgettable and Victorious Permanence By Maximilian Forte, March 11, 2013
The Fall of the House of Europe By Pepe Escobar, March 11, 2013
US Unemployment Figures are a Camouflage. Boom in Corporate Profits, Collapsing Wages By Andre Damon, March 09, 2013
American Austerity: Generously Providing Poverty to the Masses By Global Research and Global Research, March 06, 2013
Challenging the Draconian Politics of Economic Austerity. Is Europe Ripe for Revolution? By Michael Werbowski, March 06, 2013
Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In California? By Dreier Peter, March 06, 2013
America’s Fiscal Crisis: “Sequester Facts” on US Policy Manipulations You Should Know By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, March 06, 2013
The Consumer’s “Dream World”: The Global Shopping Mall By Danny Schechter, March 04, 2013
Collapse of Social Programs in America: Three-Quarters of Progressive Caucus Not Taking a Stand Against Cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid By Norman Solomon, February 27, 2013
Sequester to Spearhead Historic Assault on US Social Programs By Andre Damon, February 26, 2013
Denouncing Austerity: Mass Demonstrations against Financial Coup in Spain By Jérôme Roos, February 25, 2013
Social Uprising in Slovenia against Neoliberal Austerity Measures By Socialist Project, February 25, 2013
On Education, Barack Obama is the President of Privatization By Bruce A. Dixon, February 22, 2013
Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America By Paul Joseph Watson, February 22, 2013
When You’re Cutting Social Security, ‘Wealthy’ Begins at $25K By Jim Naureckas, February 22, 2013
America the Poor: The Human Consequences of Unlivable Wages By Ralph Nader, February 21, 2013
Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 21, 2013
Imperialism, Unequal Development and Forced Migration By Raúl Delgado Wise, February 20, 2013
Austerity Can’t Solve Crises of Capitalism By Gene Clancy, February 19, 2013
Obama’s State of the Union: Pro-corporate Agenda with Chocolate Covered Rhetoric for the 99% By Shamus Cooke, February 19, 2013
GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter, February 19, 2013
Profiting From Human Misery By Chris Hedges, February 18, 2013
Inequality and American Democracy By Joseph Kishore, February 18, 2013
Bush Was a Total Disaster … Obama Is WORSE By Washington's Blog, February 14, 2013
Detroit Financial Fraud: Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 14, 2013
Besieged, Abused, Ignored: Ethiopian Annihilation Of The Ogaden People By Graham Peebles, February 12, 2013
Trillions for Wars, None For Cancer Stricken Children By Tony Cartalucci, February 11, 2013
Obama’s Shakedown of Medicare By Shamus Cooke, February 10, 2013
Sanctions on Iran Leave 11,000 French Citizens working in the Auto Sector Jobless By Global Research News, February 10, 2013
Knowledge and Public Education in Crisis. “Accelerated Privatization of Global Education” By Sajjad Ali Malik, February 09, 2013
The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese, February 08, 2013
What they Don’t Tell You About the Economy By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, February 08, 2013
Drastic Austerity Cuts: The Great Recession has Smashed Public Services on a State by State Basis By Shamus Cooke, February 07, 2013
US Violating Human Rights of Children, Says UN Committee By Allison Frankel, February 07, 2013
Globalization and Social Destruction: Stealing Wealth and Health in India By Colin Todhunter, February 07, 2013
Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage By Chris Hedges, February 06, 2013
What does one TRILLION dollars look like? By Pagetutor.com, February 01, 2013
First Nations Rights: Confronting Colonialism in Canada By David Camfield, January 31, 2013
Poverty versus Progress: Comparing the US and Venezuela By Eric Draitser, January 29, 2013
Kerry Confronted: “When are enough people going to be killed?” By GRTV, January 28, 2013
Health Care in Syria before and During the Crisis By Global Research News, January 25, 2013
Idle No More: The Kattawapiskak River Housing Crisis By GRTV, January 23, 2013
Worldwide “Jobless Numbers”: Global Unemployment Hits Record High, Declining Living Standards By Kate Randall, January 23, 2013
The Hundred Richest People in 2012 Earned Enough to End World Poverty Four Times Over By RT, January 22, 2013
Fractured Land: Confronting Big Oil the Ravages of Neocolonialism By Caleb Behn, January 20, 2013
The Lies Of Democracy and the Language Of Deceit By Colin Todhunter, January 18, 2013
Poverty in America: Growing Share of US Workers Forced to Tap Retirement Accounts By Kate Randall, January 16, 2013
Obama’s Cabinet of Austerity and War By Patrick Martin, January 14, 2013
US life expectancy lowest among industrialized countries By Kate Randall, January 12, 2013
“Fiscal Pain”: Austerity Drives Up European Unemployment to Record Levels By Stefan Steinberg, January 09, 2013
Spain’s United Left Coalition against Neoliberalism and Economic Austerity By Dick Nichols, January 08, 2013
Surviving the Fiscal Cliff: America’s Middle Class Has Been “Saved”—Or Has It? By Danny Schechter, January 07, 2013
Following the “Fiscal Cliff” Agreement, Drastic Bi-partisan Spending Cuts By Patrick Martin, January 07, 2013
“Endless Growth” Based on Consumerism. Is there an Alternative to Capitalism and Oligarchy? By Colin Todhunter, January 07, 2013
Stagnation and Recession in America: US Jobs Report Points to an “Economy Mired in Crisis” By Barry Grey, January 05, 2013
Institutionalized Inequality in America: Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor By Stephen Lendman, January 04, 2013
Latvia’s Economic Disaster Heralded as a Neoliberal “Success Story”: A Model for Europe and the US? By Jeffrey Sommers and Prof Michael Hudson, January 03, 2013
The American People are the Big Losers In The Cliff Deal By Washington's Blog, January 03, 2013
Fiscal Cliff Over, Now the Attack on the People Begins By Kevin Zeese, January 02, 2013
What are the Benefits of Going Off “The Fiscal Cliff”? By Devon Douglas-Bowers, December 31, 2012
Responsible Fiscal Cliff Resolution By Stephen Lendman, December 31, 2012
Labour Unrest and a Slowing Economy in China: Unpaid Wages Spark Strikes By John Chan, December 30, 2012
Workers’ Rights in South Africa: Does the Ruling ANC Party Represent the People? By Eric Draitser, December 27, 2012
Obama’s Grand Charade: Say No to the Staged Dismantling of Medicare and Social Security By Margaret Flowers, December 27, 2012
Berlin: A Grim Christmas for Many. Urban Poverty in Germany. Homelessness in the Inner City By Ernst Wolff, December 25, 2012
Massive Growth of Social Inequality across America By World Socialist Web Site, December 25, 2012