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Tag Archives: Social Inequality
The social and economic roots of the attack on democratic rights
Inequality and the American oligarchy By Eric London Source: WSWS.org A report published September 27 by the US Federal Reserve, the Survey of Consumer Finances, shows that the top 10 percent of Americans now own 77 percent of all wealth. … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, censorship, economic inequality, Economics, Fake News, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Inequality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, Russia, Social Inequality, Wealth Disparity
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The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
By Henry Giroux Source: Counterpunch American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Philosophy, police state, Privatization, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technology, war on terror, Work
Tagged Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Labor, Michael Yates, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Social Inequality, surveillance state, technology, The Great Inequality, US Economy
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A Phony Victim, and a Lot of Real Ones
By Kevin Carson Source: Center for a Stateless Society In a recent open letter to the mayor (Julia Carrie Wong, “San Francisco tech worker: ‘I don’t want to see homeless riff-raff,’“ The Guardian, Feb. 17), entitled tech bro Justin Keller … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Law, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Civic Redevelopment, Class Privilege, Commando.io, Displacement, Ethnic Cleansing, Free Market Society, Gentrification, Gilded Age, Homelessness, income gap, Justin Keller, Midtown Park Apartment, Midtown Rent Strike, Public Space, Relocation, Rent, Rent Strike, San Francisco, Social Inequality, Street Sweeps, Tech Industry, Venture Capitalists
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The glorification of Antonin Scalia
By Tom Carter Source: WSWS.org The sickening tributes across the official US political and media spectrum to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 79, are a barometer of the putrefaction of American … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Empire, History, Law, media, Militarization, police state, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Antonin Scalia, civil liberties, Constitutional Originalism, Corruption, fascism, Greg Palast, Justice Scalia, Police Violence, Presidential Elections, Social Inequality, US Constitution, war, war on terror
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Growing Social Inequality in America. Wealth Concentration and Decline in Living Standards
New Federal Reserve report US median income has plunged, inequality has grown in Obama “recovery” By Andre Damon Source: Global Research The yearly income of a typical US household dropped by a massive 12 percent, or $6,400, in the six … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, police state, Recession, Social Control, society, surveillance state
Tagged Andre Damon, Economic Collapse, Economic Decline, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, Global Research, recession, Social Inequality, Social Inequality in America
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