The US Census Bureau recently reported what most Americans already knew. Poverty is deepening. The gap between rich and poor is growing. Slippage soon into the ranks of the poor now confronts tens of millions of Americans who long thought of themselves as securely “middle class.” The reality is worse than the Census Bureau reports. [...]
At the heart of the conflict over the presidency of Ivory Coast is the question: who is a legitimate citizen of a country whose economy has pulled in millions of workers from around the region? A deeper problem: “Should Africans embrace the artificialities in which they live for the sake of preserving the foreign-owned economies [...]
The military paid a total of $285 billion to more than 100 contractors between 2007 and ’09, even though those same companies were defrauding taxpayers in the same period, according to a new Defense Department. The military paid a total of $285 billion to more than 100 contractors between 2007 and ’09, even though those [...]
Ashley Smith—After the earthquake, the imperial powers and international NGOs collected billions of dollars with the promise that they would provide relief for Haiti’s quake victims and then rebuild the country. Today, even mainstream figures are profoundly critical of what the U.S. and the NGOs have done. For example, Ricardo Seitenfus, the special representative from [...]
In the past 100 years, world consumption has grown at a rate unprecedented in human history The world’s consumers In 1900, a total of $1.5 trillion was spent by public and private consumers. By 1975 it was estimated at $12 trillion. By 1998 it doubled to $24 trillion. It continues to grow rapidly.1,2 20% of [...]
Within hours of my op-ed being published in the New York Daily News today, the $50 million Clinton Bush Haiti Fund posted an update on its Facebook page called “Cholera Concern,” which includes this sentence: “While other organizations in Haiti are using their resources to deliver immediate humanitarian aid, we are using our resources to [...]
