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LONDON – The royal wedding between the U.K.’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, due to take place today, has been in the headlines for some time, serving as a convenient distraction from other major events – from the mass shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza to efforts by certain U.S. officials to sabotage […]
Posts Tagged ‘inequality’
A Royal Wedding for a Nation Sinking Ever-Deeper into Inequality
May 20th, 2018 
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No Comments »The Real Driver Of Rising Inequality
May 8th, 2018 Awake Goy Income distribution and employment are crucial macroeconomic indicators. Profits are key to distribution. Ther share in the value of output has risen steadily since around 1980. Households near the top of the size distribution of income receive business profits through various channels including interest, dividends, capital gains, proprietors’ incomes, and even labor compensation—which in US […]
Growing Apart: A Political History Of American Inequality
March 19th, 2018 Awake Goy Daily movement news and resources. Popular Resistance provides a daily stream of resistance news from across the United States and around the world. We also organize campaigns and participate in coalitions on a broad range of issues. We do not use advertising or underwriting to support our work. Instead, we rely on you. Please […]
Business Leaders Agree: Inequality Hurts The Bottom Line
March 15th, 2018 Awake Goy Business Leaders Agree: Inequality Hurts The Bottom Line Above Photo: Joe Rawlinson / Flickr A growing number of corporate leaders say it’s time for them to start sharing the wealth. For decades, big business leaders have warned that redistributing wealth is bad for business. Taxing the rich to pay for infrastructure and education, they say, […]
Just How Bad Is Inequality at America’s Major Corporations?
March 9th, 2018 Awake Goy That America’s income distribution has grown dramatically more unequal in the past 40 years is beyond debate. The share of the top 1 percent has doubled since 1980, to over 20 percent of all income. Could it get any worse? A look at America’s large, privately held corporations suggests it could. When Americans think of […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: america, Corporations, inequality, Major No Comments »Study: 50 Years After Landmark Kerner Report, US Inequality Has Worsened
February 28th, 2018 Awake Goy ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Barriers to equality pose threats to democracy in the U.S. as the country remains segregated along racial lines and child poverty worsens, according to study made public Tuesday that examines the nation 50 years after the release of the landmark 1968 Kerner Report. The new report blames U.S. policymakers and elected […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: after, inequality, kerner, landmark, report, study, years No Comments »Trump Infrastructure Plan and Inequality: A Culture’s Road Ahead
February 25th, 2018 Awake Goy INDIANAPOLIS – The morning commute in this landlocked Midwestern city is an obstacle course of potholes, buckled pavement, and shards of fugitive cement. Like infantrymen navigating a minefield, motorists swerve and stop, and zig and zag in rush hour traffic to avoid the peril from below. Drive east on Kessler Boulevard, however, and just past […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: ahead, Culture, inequality, Infrastructure, Trump No Comments »Watching The Hawks – Watching the Falcon & Accounting for Inequality
February 7th, 2018 Awake Goy Watching The Hawks – Watching the Falcon & Accounting for Inequality Watching The Hawksyoutube.com Live coverage of SpaceXs Falcon Heavy launch with Tabetha Wallace. Sports historian David Wallechinsky discusses Olympics politics. Redacted Tonights host Lee Camp raises the alarm on economic inequality in the US. In Peru, mysterious flying debris terrifies a nation. LIKE Watching […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: accounting, falcon, hawks, inequality, watching No Comments »Watching The Hawks – Crisis in Cape Town & Fires Inequality
January 27th, 2018 Awake Goy Watching The Hawks – Crisis in Cape Town & Fires Inequality Watching The Hawksyoutube.com Unbeknownst to the mainstream media, Cape Town is on track to become the first major world city to run out of water, and city councilor Xanthea Limberg joins the show to discuss the severity of the crisis. Home fires are on […]
Pepe Escobar Puts ‘Davos Man’ Straight: "It’s Inequality, Stupid!"
January 27th, 2018 Awake Goy Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, This is what ‘the great and the good’ in the business world were not discussing during the annual talk-fest at the Swiss luxury resort… For billions of people, the Groucho Marx rule applies when talking about Davos. This is the exclusive club, which […]
How Wealth Inequality Kills
January 26th, 2018 Awake Goy Wealth inequality kills. That’s not hyperbole. There is ample evidence for a growing inability of people around the world to maintain the basic human needs of physical health, mental stability and a living wage — and a desire to live in peace. Most of us recognize the need for some semblance of equality in our […]
Davos: Inequality Rocks The Magic Mountain
January 26th, 2018 Awake Goy The so-called globalized elites meet at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year under the specter of extreme turbulence. The WEF Global Risks Report is hardly reassuring. The top five most likely risks for 2018 all range from extreme weather/climate change disturbances to cyber-attacks. Yet, according to the report, in terms of impact, they are superseded by […]
Mainstream Media Recognises False Flags, UFOs, Massive Inequality & More!
January 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy Mainstream Media Recognises False Flags, UFOs, Massive Inequality & More! Redacted Tonight Lee Camp explains that lying to kids about Santa Clause then indoctrinating them into the lie when they’re older sets the stage for large-scale societal acceptance of falsehoods. Correspondent John F. O’Donnell joins Lee at the desk to discuss the recent fate of […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: false, flags, inequality, mainstream, massive, Media, recognises No Comments »Study Finds Link Between Income Inequality, Consumerism and Size of Carbon Footprint
December 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy As the rich get ever richer — courtesy, in countries like the United States, of corporate-friendly deregulation and tax “reform” — does the planet get ever warmer and dirtier? New research suggests economic balance is linked to environmentally-friendly practices. Countries with lower rates of economic disparity have citizens who enjoy a better quality of life […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: between, carbon, consumerism, finds, income, inequality, study No Comments »Is This Why Productivity Has Tanked and Wealth Inequality Has Soared?
November 16th, 2017 Awake Goy This was especially apparent to me in all the bugs I have experienced with Apple upgrades on my phone. I have to take the time to fix their screw-ups, which are designed to aggregate my data and usage to profit them. You see this with the manipulation of Facebook, creating a very black and white […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: inequality, productivity, soared, tanked, wealth No Comments »Observations on Wealth-Income Inequality (from Federal Reserve Reports)
October 28th, 2017 Awake Goy There’s a profound difference between assets that produce no income and those that produce net income. To those of us nutty enough to pore over dozens of pages of data on wealth and income in the U.S., the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Z.1 reports and annual Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) are treasure […]
Posted in World News Tags: federal, income, inequality, observations, reports, reserve, wealth No Comments »Poverty in America: Growing Income Inequality, Shrinking Middle Class, Declining Manufacturing Pay
October 8th, 2017 Awake Goy Posted in World News Tags: america, growing, income, inequality, middle, Poverty, shrinking No Comments »To Address Inequality, Let’s Take On Monopolies
September 27th, 2017 Awake Goy America’s current economy bears the effects of that radical transformation. Four airlines control eighty percent of their market, two drug store chains dominate the pharmacy industry, and Google, Facebook, and Amazon each control nearly all of search, social media, and e-commerce online. The list goes on and on, with almost every industry in America — from agriculture to retail — having become highly concentrated. This […]
Top Institutions and Economists Now Say Globalization Increases Inequality
August 21st, 2017 Awake Goy Top Institutions and Economists Now Say Globalization Increases Inequality By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com World Bank, IMF, BIS, NBER, McKinsey Now Admit that Globalization Increases Inequality We’ve all heard that globalization lifts all boats and increases our prosperity … But mainstream economists and organizations are now starting to say that globalization increases inequality. The National Bureau of Economic […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: economists, Globalization, increases, inequality, institutions No Comments »Why We’re Doomed: Our Economy’s Toxic Inequality
August 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Anyone who thinks our toxic financial system is stable is delusional. Why are we doomed? Those consuming over-amped “news” feeds may be tempted to answer the culture wars, nuclear war with North Korea or the Trump Presidency. The one guaranteed source of doom is our broken financial system, which is visible in this chart […]
Reversing Inequality: Unleashing Potential Of An Equitable Economy
August 9th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: From thenextsystem.org Introduction The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. Their observable and felt harm to our civic and economic life is corroborated by research from many disciplines. Yet, by the same token, moving toward a more egalitarian society would realign most aspects of economic and social life for the better. So […]
Posted in World News Tags: economy, equitable, inequality, potential, reversing, unleashing No Comments »"Inequality" DEBUNKED by the Health Ranger
August 5th, 2017 Awake Goy About the author: Mike Adams (aka the “Health Ranger“) is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com called “Food Forensics“), an environmental scientist, a patent holder for a cesium radioactive isotope elimination invention, a multiple award winner for outstanding journalism, a science news publisher and influential commentator on topics ranging from […]
Fighting Inequality: Which Nations Do More Than Pay Lip Service?
July 25th, 2017 Awake Goy Also lagging in the struggle against inequality: India and Pakistan. Along with Nigeria, these middle-income nations, observe Oxfam and DFI, “could be spending far more on health, education, and social protection than they are.” With a combined population of 1.6 billion, the three “could make an enormous impact on reducing global poverty and inequality if they chose […]
Going Underground – Ep 502: Peter Dowd MP on Brexit, IFS Report on inequality & Drone-killer laser
July 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Going Underground – Ep 502: Peter Dowd MP on Brexit, IFS Report on inequality & Drone-killer laser Going Underground with Afshin Rattansiyoutube.com In this episode we speak to Jeremy Corbyn’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury Peter Dowd. Institute for Fiscal Studies publishes a report on inequality across the UK. Plus, we review this weeks headlines! […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: brexit, drone, going, inequality, peter, report, underground No Comments »Making Employee-Owned Enterprises Part Of The Income Inequality Solution
July 8th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Mike Alewitz Source Article from https://popularresistance.org/making-employee-owned-enterprises-part-of-the-income-inequality-solution/
Posted in World News Tags: employee, enterprises, income, inequality, making, owned, solution No Comments »Grotesque inequality and anxiety
May 9th, 2017 Awake Goy By Graham Peebles Anxiety and depression are at unprecedented levels worldwide and the numbers are growing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes it as an epidemic, and estimates that 615 million people are suffering from one or other of these debilitating diseases. This is a staggering number which in all likelihood is an indication only […]
Clinton Foundation Corruption — Hillary & Bill’s Circle of Crooks and Thieves
July 4th, 2016 Awake Goy In fact, the Clinton Foundation, Bill and Hillary’s elaborate slush fund, includes numerous donors and even one-time board members with dodgy backgrounds, shady dealings, and even criminal convictions that should repel rather than lure a once and perhaps future president of the United States. Peter Schweizer’s meticulously researched new best-seller Clinton Cash (complete with […]
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: State Dept. memo on Syria ‘reckless’
June 26th, 2016 Awake Goy A group of U.S. intelligence veterans urges President Obama to resist the “reckless” call for a wider Syrian war from 51 State Department officials in a recent “dissent memo.” MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Subject: Beware Foggy Bottom Dissent Dissent and disagreement within […]
Posted in World News Tags: expense, income, inequality, poor, richer, wealthiest, widening No Comments »EU Wants €60 BILLION To ‘Solve’ Migrant Crisis
June 9th, 2016 Awake Goy The Commission’s proposal hopes to address the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe with an €8 billion fund — rising to €60 billion with contributions from member states and the private sector — aimed at persuading Middle Eastern and African countries such as Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Niger, Ethiopia and possibly even Libya to process migrants before they travel to the EU According to the Financial Times […]
Posted in World News Tags: 12495, armani, clinton, hillary, inequality, jacket, speech, wore No Comments »Statecraft: A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
June 2nd, 2016 Awake Goy The following article was initially published in 1997. It is in part based on the work of William Blum. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, 1995 (GR Ed. M. Ch.) The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. […]
