(2019-08-22). 400 Years After Slavery's Start, No More Band-Aids. commondreams.org A slave auction in Richmond, Virginia, 1856. While slavery is often regarded as long-ago history, it was integral to shaping our economy—and its inequality—today. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/shutterstock_237231856-1080×627.jpeg …
(2019-08-22). From 'felon' to 'justice-involved person': San Francisco fights crime with PC language. rt.com 
Amid a rising tide of crime, inequality, and literal human waste, San Francisco, California has chosen to sanitize — language. Felons, offenders and addicts will now have to be called new, more politically correct names. | The new "person-first" language guidelines were recently introduced by the city's Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. From now on, a convicted felon released from jail will be called a "justice-involved person"
(2019-08-22). Voices from Ferguson, Missouri five years after the police murder of Michael Brown. wsws.org Residents spoke about life in a country where the police kill with impunity to defend a capitalist social order based on historic levels of inequality.
(2019-08-22). How to Become a Corporate CEO Scam Artist in Five Easy Steps. commondreams.org There has been an explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of average workers, writes Reich, but that isn't because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before. It's because they are scamming the American people into thinking they are somehow worth more. Don't buy it. (Image: Screenshot / Inequality Media) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ceo_pay_scam.jpg …
(2019-08-22). Record global dividend payouts fuel rising social inequality. wsws.org The report demonstrates how the financial markets serve as a mechanism for the transfer of wealth up the income scale, from the working class to the corporate elite.
(2019-08-22). France's Macron Tells Johnson It's Too Late For New Brexit Deal. telesurenglish.net French President Emmanuel Macron told Prime Minister Boris Johnson Thursday that there was not enough time to wholly rewrite Britain's Brexit divorce deal before an Oct. 31 deadline. | RELATED: | UK To Face Food, Fuel, Drugs Deficit: Leaked Brexit Document | Johnson met Macron at the Elysee Palace a day after talks in Be…
(2019-08-21). A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams. globalresearch.ca Cathy Crowe's book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. …
(2019-08-21). The Dead Letter Office of Capitalist Imperium: a Poverty of Mundus Imaginalis. counterpunch.org PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced More
(2019-08-18). How The Mainstream Media Fuels America's Income Inequality Machine. therealnews.com 
From medicare for all to neoliberal tax subsidies for major corporations the mainstream media often bolsters the notion that a more fair and equitable society is not possible…
(2019-08-16). The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres. democracynow.org 
Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land owners, is part of the pattern of institutional racism and discrimination that has contributed to the racial wealth gap in the United States. Many of the driving forces behind this land theft were legal and originated in federal policies, as documented by Vann Newkirk, staff writer at Th…
(2019-08-15). SPLC publishes Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama's Community Corrections Programs. splcenter.org A new investigative report published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center reveals serious flaws in Alabama's community corrections programs, an otherwise promising system for diverting people from the state's prisons.
(2019-08-08). SPLC statement on Mississippi immigration raids. splcenter.org Southern Poverty Law Center Attorney Julia Solórzano, with the SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project, issued the following statement on today's workplace raids in Mississippi:…