{"id":347345,"date":"2018-02-08T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poverty-american-style\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:30:29","slug":"poverty-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/poverty-american-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99589\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99589\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-07-at-5.33.59-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Thomas Galvez | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In December last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&amp;LangID=E\">statement<\/a> on his 15-day fact-finding mission of some of the US\u2019s poorest neighbourhoods.\u00a0\u00a0 Alston, author of the quoted phrase in the subtitle above, is an Australian who is professor of law at New York University.\u00a0 During his mission he visited Alabama, California, West Virginia, Texas, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Alston\u2019s statement on American poverty and inequality has been overlooked by most of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>Alston has a record of consistent impartiality, which makes his statement on American poverty all the more credible.<\/p>\n<p>He was critical of China in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20402&amp;LangID=E\">report<\/a> on that country (the Chinese government later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2017-06-08\/china-accuses-un-rights-envoy-of-meddling-in-its-judiciary\">accused<\/a> him of \u201cmeddling\u201d in its judicial system).\u00a0 He wants Sri Lanka to be investigated for war crimes against its Tamil minority population.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/01\/un-extreme-poverty-america-special-rapporteur\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Alston also \u201ctore a strip off the Saudi Arabian regime for its treatment of women months before the kingdom legalized their right to drive, denounced the Brazilian government for attacking the poor through austerity, and even excoriated the UN itself for importing cholera to Haiti\u201d. \u00a0Alston also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2015\/oct\/22\/world-bank-human-rights-un-special-rapporteur-philip-alston\">reprimanded<\/a> the World Bank for \u201cplaying a double-game\u201d that is \u201cleading a \u2018race to the bottom\u2019 on human rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Alston began his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/08\/poverty-american-style\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Thomas Galvez | CC BY 2.0 \u201cThe American Dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion.\u201d In December last year, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, issued a statement on his 15-day fact-finding mission of some of the US\u2019s poorest neighbourhoods.\u00a0\u00a0 Alston, author of the quoted phrase 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