Friday, 29 March , 2024

Inequality

Becoming Serfs

By Chris Hedges Aug 26, 2018 You know the statistics. Income inequality in the United States has not been this pronounced in over a century. The...

Rob Nixon: Gov’t Inaction on Climate Change Is “Slow Violence” That...

August 02, 2018 With unprecedented fires, floods and heat waves sweeping the globe, 2018 is on track to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The...

The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People

The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’) By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...

Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires | by Bernie Sanders

If we stand together against powerful special interests we can eliminate poverty, increase life expectancy and tackle climate change @SenSanders Sun 14 Jan 2018 Here is...

Cinq choses à retenir sur le boom des inégalités mondiales

Par Grégoire Normand Le dernier rapport international sur les inégalités, élaboré par une centaine de chercheurs, indique que "les 1% d'individus les plus riches ont...

There Are Large Parts Of America Being Left Behind…

Tyler Durden Sep 25, 2017 Economic prosperity is concentrated in America's elite zip codes, but in an interesting report on Distressed Communities, from The Economic Innovation Group,...

Inequality and the American oligarchy: The social and economic roots of...

6 October 2017 A report published September 27 by the US Federal Reserve, the Survey of Consumer Finances, shows that the top 10 percent of...

How Western civilisation could collapse

Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer. By Rachel Nuwer 18...

Tens of thousands line up at Amazon job fairs as Dow...

Published by www.wsws.org Two scenes played out across America yesterday, providing a window onto two separate worlds: one occupied by a small, wealthy elite; the...

The Death of Neoliberalism

The western financial crisis of 2007-8 was the worst since 1931, yet its immediate repercussions were surprisingly modest. The crisis challenged the foundation stones of the long-dominant neoliberal ideology but it seemed to emerge largely unscathed. The banks were bailed out; hardly any bankers on either side of the Atlantic were prosecuted for their