(2019-12-25). Corporate Media and 'Moderate' Democrats Are Defending the Oligarchy Against Bernie Sander. indybay.org Seeking "a more positive future" for the wealthy…
(2019-12-25). President Scrooge and His Dickensian Cabal. thenation.com President Scrooge and His Dickensian Cabal…
(2019-12-25). Imran Khan promises breakthrough year for Pakistan's economy in 2020. rt.com 
While 2019 was a year of difficulties and economic stabilization for Pakistan, 2020 is expected to be a year of economic development, according to Prime Minister Imran Khan. | "During the year 2020, the focus will be on economic growth, job creation, poverty reduction and uplift of poor through the Ehsaas program [creation of a 'welfare state' — Ed.]," he said while addressing the launch of Pakistan Post initiative for delivery of remittances by overseas Pakistanis through 500 designated post offices in various cities. | Under the new Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI), beneficiaries could collect their…
(2019-12-24). Christmas Celebrates the Birth of a Refugee Who Was Killed by the State. truthout.org I will never forget the moment she came up to me. Tears were rolling down her face. We had just had our worship services in the street that day, in front of our local gun shop because we wanted to connect the suffering of Jesus on the cross to the suffering of our neighborhood on the North side of Philadelphia, which carries a bulk of the trauma of poverty and violence in our city. It was just before Easter. We had just read the Gospel passage describing Jesus's violent death, leaving his mother a…
(2019-12-24). Trump slashes Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico. wsws.org President Trump personally intervened in last week's spending talks to reduce funding for Puerto Rico, which has been plagued by recession and ruthless social inequality.
(2019-12-24). Christmas 2019: More than half a million homeless in America. wsws.org At a time when the ruling elite is celebrating the continued rise in the stock market and patting themselves on the back for historically low unemployment figures, the number of people who are being thrown out on the streets is on the rise.
(2019-12-24). Bloomberg Campaign Calls Made by Those Behind Bars. truthdig.com Fundraising phone calls are the bane of many campaigns' (and voters') existence. When it comes to wooing the wealthiest donors, elected officials typically complain about the amount of time spent soliciting funds. "There have been decades and decades of members of Congress losing their lives to ' dialing for dollars,' " Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a law professor at Stetson University who studies political fundraising, told Marketplace in March. | At lower donation levels it's an…
(2019-12-23). Much work needed to 'target unacceptable levels' of racism in Ecuador: UN experts. news.un.org Ecuador must implement and enforce laws and policies to protect the rights of Afro-Ecuadorians, the UN Working Group on People of African Descent said on Monday, calling for an end to the "discrimination, exclusion and extreme poverty they suffer."
(2019-12-20). As Democratic Field Gets Whiter, DNC Should "Press Pause" & Fix Process Shutting Out People of Color. democracynow.org 
Within a day of President Trump's impeachment, the Democratic presidential candidates held their final debate of the year at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. On the stage were Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, along with Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden, billionaire Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang. Amna Nawaz, the first Pakistani American and first Muslim American to moderate a presidential primary debate, questioned Yang about being the only nonwhite candidate on the stage. We get response from Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers'
(2019-12-20). "Wine Cave Full of Crystals": Warren & Buttigieg Spar over Donors, But Poverty Is Left Out of Debate. democracynow.org 
During Thursday's Democratic debate, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete Buttigieg sparred over money's role in politics and who funds their campaigns. The main difference between their approaches to taking funding is that Warren's policies have been consistently clear on issues of inequality, while Buttigieg is "more of a cipher," says Heather McGhee, distinguished senior fellow and former president of Demos. Meanwhile, moderators did not ask candidates about their platforms to tackle poverty in the U.S. "The word 'poverty' has yet to be mentioned by a moderator, and this is not a matter just of semantics,"
(2019-12-11). Economic Inequality Has Gone Bananas. progressive.org The same week the now-infamous banana gallery piece sold for over $100,000, the Trump administration announced its plans to slash the nation's nutrition assistance program.
(2019-12-10). The Case for a Green New Deal. zcomm.org Interview on the case for a Green New Deal that tackles the causes and impacts of climate change while confronting racial and economic inequality…
(2019-12-06). Anti-Imperialism As An Intellectual Trap. zcomm.org The US-led economic sanctions have caused a great deal of death and destruction in Iranian society, and the IMF policies in Iran, similar to other developing countries, have resulted in a widening of the class gap, poverty, severe marginalization of the peripheries, and a lowering of living standards. Yet, the US sanctions together with IMF Read more…