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Tag Archives: Poverty
Why America is the World’s First Poor Rich Country
Or, How American Collapse is Made of a New Kind of Poverty By Umair Haque Source: Eudaimonia Consider the following statistics. The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Collapse, Debt, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Homelessness, Inflation, Poverty, Precariat, Wealth Disparity
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Suicide? American Society is Murdering Us
By Ted Rall Source: CounterPunch They say that 10 million Americans seriously consider committing suicide every year. In 1984, when I was 20, I was one of them. Most people who kill themselves feel hopeless. They are miserable and distraught … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged culture, depression, Economics, healthcare, Illness, Isolation, Loneliness, Mental Illness, Poverty, society, Stress, suicide, technology, unemployment, Work
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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Uncle Sam, the Human Rights Hypocrite
By Paul Street Source: TruthDig This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Signed by the United States and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec. 10, 1948, the document was a great … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged censorship, civil liberties, economic inequality, Elections, empire, freedom of speech, geopolitics, Human Rights, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, police state, Police Violence, Poverty, racism, surveillance state, Torture, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, US Foreign Policy
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America’s Dystopian Future
By Robert Hunziker Source: CounterPunch Imagine a privatized America where rugged individualism reigns supreme within a vast network of corporate America, Inc., similar to 19th century wild west lifestyle, no social security, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no public law enforcement … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, American History, austerity, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, empire, financial crisis, Free Market, imperialism, Manifest Destiny, Neoliberalism, P, Poverty, privatization, Scott Erickson, the history of the decline and fall of america
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US Collapse – the Spectacle of Our Time
By Finnian Cunningham Source: Axis of Logic May you live in interesting times, goes the Chinese proverb. Few can doubt that we are indeed living in such an interesting time. Big changes are afoot in the world, it seems. None … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, American Empire, American exceptionalism, china, Cold War, corporate media, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, financial crisis, geopolitics, imperialism, Mainstream News, Militarism, national debt, Poverty, propaganda, Rogue State, Russia, RussiaGate, war
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A 2% Financial Wealth Tax Would Provide A $12,000 Annual Stipend To Every American Household
Careful analysis reveals a number of excellent arguments for the implementation of a Universal Basic Income. By Paul Buchheit Source: Nation of Change It’s not hard to envision the benefits in work opportunities, stress reduction, child care, entrepreneurial activity, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged 1%, 99%, Arts and Sciences, big data, Big Pharma, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Entrepreneurs, financial crisis, income gap, Poverty, Progressive Tax, Stock Market, technology, UBI, unemployment, Universal Basic Income, wall street, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Tax
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NYT: Don’t Be Progressive, Be a ‘Liberal’
By Jim Naureckas Source: FAIR A New York Times op-ed by political scientist (and former Bob Kerrey aide) Greg Weiner (7/13/18) may well be the New York Times–iest op-ed ever. Its ostensible subject is why Democrats should call themselves “liberals” … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate news, culture, Financial Crisis, History, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Cold War, Conservatives, corporate news, Democrats, Great Society, Greg Weiner, Liberals, Lyndon Johnson, Mainstream Media, media, New York Times, NYT, Poverty, Progressives, Redbaiting, Russia
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