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.
Massive Cuts in Social Spending to Finance the Pentagon’s “Cybersecurity” Gravy Train By Tom Burghardt, April 04, 2011
VIDEO: Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers, Popular Resistance By Global Research, April 01, 2011
Ontario: Austerity, Resistance and the Poor By John Clarke, April 01, 2011
Housing Market Blues – The Bleeding Continues By Mike Whitney, March 30, 2011
The World’s Super-Rich By Prof. James Petras, March 23, 2011
UN: 800 Million People without Drinking Water By Global Research, March 21, 2011
The Health Care Crisis Grows While the 2010 Health Reform Shrinks By Kevin Zeese, March 21, 2011
VIDEO: Wisconsin Protests: Farmers Fight Back By Tony Schultz, March 19, 2011
An Economy on Steroids: US Poverty Levels Equal to the 1930s By Bob Chapman, March 12, 2011
“Wisconsin Death Trip.” Mass Privatization as the “Final Stage” of Neoliberal Doctrine By Prof Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers, March 12, 2011
The Fed’s Consumer Credit Report: Devastating Household Debt Crisis in Main Street America By Mike Whitney, March 10, 2011
VIDEO: Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy By Global Research, March 10, 2011
Stealing from Social Security to Pay for Wars and Bailouts By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 09, 2011
The world is changing and we have an important role to play By Michel Collon, March 09, 2011
The Tragic Failure of “Post-Communism” in Eastern Europe By Dr. Rossen Vassilev, March 08, 2011
More Jobs Mirage By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 05, 2011
The Cruel Irony of Austerity: “Destroying People’s Lives” By Devon Douglas-Bowers, March 03, 2011
Massive Austerity Budgets are Destroying America By Kevin Zeese, March 01, 2011
Why All Workers Should Support Unions By Shamus Cooke, February 27, 2011
VIDEO: Gaddafi Loses More Libyan Cities as Protests Continue By Global Research, February 24, 2011
Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination By David DeGraw, February 23, 2011
The Security Budget vs. the Necessities of Americans. By Kevin Zeese, February 22, 2011
Workers Rights: How to Win in Wisconsin and Beyond By Shamus Cooke, February 20, 2011
Time to Topple Corporate Dictators By Ralph Nader, February 19, 2011
Egypt’s Economy in Crisis By Dr. Ali Kadri, February 18, 2011
Dictators are “Disposable”: The Rise and Fall of America’s Military Henchmen By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 18, 2011
VIDEO: US Veterans Face Terrible Job Market By Bob Chapman, February 17, 2011
Social Inequality Causes Economic Crashes By Washington's Blog, February 14, 2011
VIDEO: Zero Silence: A Documentary About the Free Wor(l)d By Global Research, February 14, 2011
Will Tunisia Transition from Tyranny into Democratic Despotism? By Andrew Gavin Marshall, February 14, 2011
World Social Forum: Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly By Global Research, February 12, 2011
How Minorities and the Poor are Kept out of Law School By Lawrence Velvel, Michael Coyne, and Sherwood Ross, February 11, 2011
America’s Strategic Repression of the ‘Arab Awakening’ By Andrew Gavin Marshall, February 09, 2011
VIDEO: Democracy in the Arab World? By Mehran Kamrava, February 07, 2011
The Student Loan Swindle By Mike Whitney, February 07, 2011
Who is the Real Opposition in Egypt? By Shamus Cooke, February 06, 2011
Egypt’s Social Crisis: Financial Bonanza for Wall Street Investors and Speculators By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 06, 2011
Egypt’s Economy, Financial Deregulation and Protest By Nomi Prins, February 05, 2011
Rising Food Prices and the Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World By Ellen Brown, February 04, 2011
Egypt’s Rising Food Prices: The Economic Crisis Is Driving Political Protests Sparked In Part By US Financial Speculation By Danny Schechter, January 31, 2011
Inequality In America Is Worse Than In Egypt, Tunisia Or Yemen By Washington's Blog, January 29, 2011
Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution? By Andrew Gavin Marshall, January 27, 2011
Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisis By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 25, 2011
“The Globocrats”: Davos and the Bilderberg By Global Research, January 22, 2011
Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 20, 2011
Night in Tunisia: Riots, Strikes and a Spreading Insurgency By Prof David McNally, January 19, 2011
Obama may cut Social Security By Sahil Kapur, January 18, 2011
The Spectre Haunting Europe: Debt Defaults, Austerity, and Death of the “Social Europe” Model By Prof Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers, January 18, 2011
Why Tunisia Changed the World By Shamus Cooke, January 18, 2011
Failure of the Globalization Model: The Arab Spring of Democracy By Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Hana Al-Bayaty, and Ian Douglas, January 17, 2011
The Class War Launched by America’s Wealthiest By Larry Beinhart, January 14, 2011
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer By Jordan Flaherty, January 13, 2011
America’s Economic and Social Crisis: The Fed has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street By Ellen Brown, January 13, 2011
From Haiti to Australia: The Horrendous Payback of Global Capitalism By Finian Cunningham, January 13, 2011
VIDEO: Life No Better in Haiti, One Year Later By Nicole Lee, January 12, 2011
Will U.S. Labour Challenge Austerity? By Brian Tierney, January 12, 2011
One Year Since the Earthquake in Haiti By Bill Van Auken, January 12, 2011
The Student Loan Debt Bubble By Alan Nasser and Kelly Norman, January 10, 2011
Spinning Unemployment Figures in a Collapsing Empire By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, January 10, 2011
Intergenerational Poverty in America By Devon Douglas-Bowers, January 09, 2011
Attacking Public Employees: Will New York Lead? By Prof. Richard D. Wolff, January 09, 2011
“The Greatest Recovery”: Economic Depression By Mark Provost, January 08, 2011
US Census Bureau: Rising Levels of Poverty in America By Barry Grey, January 07, 2011
Food Emergency: Millions of Americans Are Heading to Foodbanks for the First Time in Their Lives By Chaz Valenza, January 03, 2011
Detroit in Ruins. The Decline of the American Empire By Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, January 02, 2011
Tunisia: IMF “Economic Medicine” has resulted in Mass Poverty and Unemployment By Prof. Basel Saleh, December 31, 2010
2011: The Municipal Meltdown. More than 100 US Cities Could Go Bust By Washington's Blog, December 30, 2010
The Double Dip In Housing is Almost Here… By Washington's Blog, December 29, 2010
Quebec: Health and Workers’ Rights in the Asbestos Industry By David Mandel, December 29, 2010
Journalism of Appeasement. Corruption, Smoke and Mirrors By David DeGraw, December 27, 2010
The Dream Of Democracy By Ralph J Dolan, December 27, 2010
Economic Crisis: Public Sector Unions and Canada’s Austerity Measures By Jordy Cummings and Patrick D. LeGay, December 27, 2010
The Other Face of the Global Economic Crisis: Debt Driven Suicides in India By Kavaljit Singh, December 23, 2010
The Rise in Temporary Employment. The Loss of Job Security in America By Kéllia Ramares, December 22, 2010
America: Money Is Still the Name of the Game By Michael Parenti, December 20, 2010
Social inequality in America: Tax law will overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy By Tom Eley, December 19, 2010
France: Not Victorious, But Not Defeated By Murray Smith, December 17, 2010
Economic Crisis in America: Mounting Household Debts, Threat to Pension Funds and Social Security By Bob Chapman, December 15, 2010
A shift of power toward the wealthy By Dick Lilly, December 14, 2010
The Assault on Workers’ Rights in America: Labor’s Last Stand in 2011? By Shamus Cooke, December 12, 2010