(2019-07-17). Global Britain's real climate changers: big oil must be taken down. mronline.org 
There is no global social unity in the face of climate disaster. We risk a 'climate apartheid' scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer. | Source
(2019-07-17). Billionaires and American Politics. counterpunch.org Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation's first billionaire president, it's not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played More
(2019-07-17). Billionaires and American Politics. dissidentvoice.org Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation's first billionaire president, it's not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played an …
(2019-07-17). After GM Lordstown closure: Vindicator newspaper to shut down. wsws.org The closure of the Vindicator will end daily news publication in Mahoning County, once a major center of steel production and now notorious for endemic poverty.
(2019-07-17). New report confirms Germany's deep-seated inequality. wsws.org The findings of the "Germany Atlas" reveal deep divisions, between West and East Germany, and also between the country's southern and northern.
(2019-07-17). Hundreds protest over drowning of refugee schoolgirl in UK. wsws.org In the area surrounding the school just outside Manchester, one-third of all children live in poverty, that is in families whose income is less than 60 percent of the national median income.
(2019-07-16). History Holds the Antidote to Trump's Fascist Politics. truthdig.com 
"[T]he great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations." —James Baldwin | America is in a state of crisis that touches every aspect of public life, extending from a crisis of economics produced by massive inequality to a crisis of ideas, agency, memory and politics, aided and abetted by controlling apparatuses that induce ubiquitous forms of historical amnesia…
(2019-07-16). Let's Establish a Wealth Tax — and Give Every Family $25,000 a Year. truthout.org Three men in the U.S. have more accumulated wealth than half of all Americans, 165 million people. | Our corporations control more shareholder wealth than 99 percent of Americans combined. | 90 percent of us have less than 7 percent of the wealth in the country if you exclude pension assets, which may be of gre…
(2019-07-16). Jeff Bezos flaunts obscene wealth with $80 million Manhattan penthouse purchase. wsws.org Bezos' $137 billion combined wealth could pay the annual median rent for all 250,000 Amazon workers in the US for 100 years.
(2019-07-15). Monday's Daily Brief: numbers of hungry people rising, millions of children need vaccines, Mali children need more protection. un.org In today's Daily Brief: achieving zero hunger an "immense challenge", with numbers of hungry rising; 20 million children are missing out on potentially life-saving vaccines, the killing of health workers in DR Congo shows the need for a stronger Ebola response; a UN expert calls for an end to violations against children in Mali; and better training is needed to cut global youth unemployment.
(2019-07-15). Rentier Britain: All the Rent Goes to the 1%. dissidentvoice.org There are three fundamental issues that lie at the heart of our current economic malaise: the first is unearned income and wealth from land rent, second the creation of money by privately owned banks, and the third is rent-seeking that is used to juice profits out of intellectual property through copyright and patents. But the …
(2019-07-12). Ousted Honduran President Zelaya: The 2009 U.S.-Backed Coup Helped Cause Today's Migrant Crisis. democracynow.org 
Since the 2009 U.S.-backed military coup in Honduras, extreme poverty and violence has skyrocketed in the country, forcing tens of thousands of Hondurans to flee to the U.S. with the hope of receiving political asylum. We speak with ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in the capital of Tegucigalpa about the 10th anniversary of the coup in Honduras, U.S. intervention in Central America and its link to today's migration crisis.
(2019-07-12). Bring down the global fences. greenleft.org.au 
As the Titanic sank in 1912, the wealthy were given safety on lifeboats while the poor were left to die, locked in the sinking ship. | Today, the countries of the Global North are taking a similar approach to the climate crisis. | Going full steam ahead, countries such as Australia continue to burn fossil fuels, ignore the warnings of scientists and, when crises hit, turn people away from safety. | There were more than 70 million displaced people around the world last year according to conservative United Nations figures — the highest this figure has ever been. | Many were displaced as a direct or indirec…
(2019-07-11). Mexico: The devious ways one water company is profiting from the poor. greenleft.org.au 
Water is becoming a coveted currency. As a basic need that is increasingly scarce in some regions due to climate disruption and abusive industrial and agricultural practices, it is the new gold that the wealthy want to get their hands on. | Companies like Nestlé and even drug gangs in Mexico are harnessing the profit and power potential of water, with trails of violence and corruption left in their wake. | In Puebla, two hours to the south of Mexico City, a private water company has plans to break up the streets…
